Monday, February 19, 2007

We will excell Canada's cultural foundation

The doctrine of honesty is the foundation of law for the cultures of the Gitxsan and Wet’suwet’en tribes of northern British Columbia, Canada.
An ancient culture, it is not surprising that these tribes produce good native artists. One of them is Robert E Sebastian.
Sebastian of the White Wolf Clan, House of Spookx was born in 1952. The moon of falling leaves, October 25, Hazelton was a river of native art. Life in Hazelton was for the strong. If you worked hard you lived well. This is his engine. Canadian culture is a brutal pace today, that only excites Robert.
Sebastian’s native name is, Gwin-Jakwsxw, meaning, dying to kill something.
The Sebastian pallet has touched worldly collections including that of the British Royal Family, with the largest of these collections, being at the University of Victoria, Maltwood Museum. In 1981 Gwin-Jakwsxw broke bread with the then Governor General of Canada, Edward Schreyer, His Excellency Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth. As well he has appeared with Fergie Jenkins, Donald Sutherland, the Vancouver Canucks, the Montreal Expos and the Japanese National Hockey Team at events where presentations of his works were the highlights of the days activities.
In 1982 he travelled to Adelaide, Australia to dance before representatives of 144 countries for a United Nations Museum’s conference. He has also danced in Kansas City, Missouri, Ottawa and Montreal as part of the touring ‘Ksan native dance group.
Robert danced for the Ksan Dancers for fifteen years. He now leads a native dance group called the Gitxsan All Clans Dancers.

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