Standing Up with Ga’axsta’las: Jane Constance Cook and the Politics of Memory, Church, and Custom by Leslie A. Robertson, Assistant Professor, UBC Department of Anthropology, and the Kwagu’l Gixsam Clan, published by UBC Press, is a finalist for the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize, one of the BC Book Prizes awarded by the West Coast Book Prize Society.
Standing Up with Ga’axsta’las tells the story of Jane Constance Cook (1870-1951), a controversial Kwakwaka’wakw leader and activist who lived during a period of enormous colonial upheaval. The winner of the Haig-Brown Prize will be announced May 4. For more information about the book, click here.
