This morning I stumbled across an article about Haida artist, Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas (including a link to his website). The article describes the artist as the creator of the Haida Manga genre. Yahgulanaas translates the Japanese word managa as meaning images without a limitation, or without borders. Navigating this site provides glimpses of amazing art work, and some interesting perspectives around global and local indigenous knowledge, and influences of new media and technology.
Scroll to the bottom of the main page web gallery. Here you will find a link to Yahgulanaas other works, the Haida Manga page and the Rocking Raven cartoon page. The Haida Manga page, includes links to several indigenous stories such as Tree Spirit that would also certainly have a great appeal for school children learning about the Haida culture. The Rocking Raven page includes links to cartoons, like the Red Stump link that have a definite flavour of cultural/political commentary. I think this artist/site does a great job of providing some good insights into Northwest Coast indigenous traditional culture and the issues faced by advancing globalization and technology.
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