When renowned Haida artist Robert Davidson was a kid, he used to root for the cowboys while watching old Westerns, cheering with his friends when the “bad guys” — the Indians — were killed.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. ON A BRISK JULY morning, hundreds of miles from his art studio near Vancouver ...

Haida artist Robert Davidson was just 22 years old when he decided he wanted to do something that hadn't been done in his home community in nearly a century: raise a totem pole. It was 1969 and ...

In 1969, when Robert Davidson was 22, he seized on a life-defining cultural and artistic mission: He would carve and raise a totem pole in his hometown of Masset, B.C. The remote fishing village ...

Spending pandemic lockdown in his White Rock studio, artist Robert Davidson sees the world playing out one of the main messages in Haida Modern, the documentary making its broadcast and streaming ...

Last December, I interviewed Haida artist Robert Davidson, whose artwork Raven Bringing Light to the World was adapted into a tattoo that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wears on his left arm.

It has been the art that has brought us back to our roots. I am proud to be one of those people chosen to put the puzzle back together and move on. The challenge is ours to keep expanding the circle." ...

it follows that filmmaker Charles Wilkinson would turn his camera on Robert Davidson. The influence of the world-renowned artist on Haida Gwaii is incalculable. In 1969, when the first totem pole ...

The film chronicles Haida artist Robert Davidson's life, and looks at the impact Davidson and his work have had on the country. "His work is so beautiful and it's so evocative," Wilkinson told ...