parallels…
“The power of traditional culture
prospers despite adversity
and flourishes across the generations” – Cle-alls (Dr. John Kelly)
The conference gratefully thanks Cle-alls (Dr. John Kelly) for contributing this collection for exhibition to the conference.
Cle-alls (Dr. John Kelly) is a Haida from Skidegate, Haida Gwaii, a group of islands 80 kilometres off the northern coast of British Columbia. At one time, people who were not Haida called them the Queen Charlotte Islands.
Dr. Kelly is a journalism professor at Carleton University. He serves with Dr. Elaine Keillor as co-director of the Centre for Indigenous Research, Culture, Language and Education (CIRCLE) at Carleton University in Ottawa. Dr. Kelly was co-investigator, an editor and a writer for four of CIRCLE’s websites, Native Drums, Native Dance, Path of the Elders, and First Encounters.
The sites were developed in collaboration with Aboriginal communities. They feature Aboriginal cultural resources, educator materials and web-based role-playing computer games that teach all youth, both Aboriginal and those who are not, about First Peoples culture, values and history before after and during first contact with Europeans.
Dr. Kelly began his work with language and cultural revitalisation programs and First Peoples communities more than 20 years ago in Canada and the United States.