"This exhaustively researched, poignant, and highly readable Native American art history illuminates Tlingit and Haida art in Southeast Alaska during the Depression era, where the Northwest Coast arts were long thought to be dying, dormant, or otherwise compromised. Instead, Moore demonstrates just how vibrantly alive they really were."
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Ishmael Hope, Iñupiaq and Tlingit scholar
"A rich, fascinating account of Alaska’s Haida and Tlingit history as told through their totem poles and their subsequent restorations. The text is a first in describing the important, previously undocumented stories of how the pole restorations contributed to Alaska Native sovereignty, and an illuminating contribution to understanding the ongoing Indigenous cultural renaissance in Alaska."
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Jeane T'áaw xíwaa Breinig, professor of English, University of Alaska Anchorage
"Moore’s well-researched and highly readable study of an important—and often overlooked—period in Native American art history makes a significant contribution to the field."
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Jennifer McLerran, Northern Arizona University
"Moore demonstrates how the Tlingit and Haida were agents in this government-sponsored project as they worked to express their cultural and political sovereignty at a time of considerable discrimination. She makes clear that these totem parks were and remain significant features of Tlingit and Haida cultural life."
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Aldona Jonaitis, author of Discovering Totem Poles
"Fills in gaps in the literature on the art of the Pacific Northwest and offers a nuanced and balanced interrogation of the history of Alaskan tourism."
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Elizabeth Hutchinson, author of The Indian Craze
