Books by Pauline R. Hillaire

Joseph Hillaire (Lummi, 1894-1967) is recognized as one of the great Coast Salish artists, carvers, and tradition-bearers of the twentieth century. In A Totem Pole History, his daughter Pauline Hillaire, who is herself a well-known cultural historian and conservator, tells the story of her father's life and the traditional and contemporary Lummi narratives that influenced his work.

Offers a remarkable historical narrative and autobiography written by esteemed Lummi elder and culture bearer Pauline Hillaire. Hillaire combines in her narrative life experiences, Lummi oral traditions preserved and passed on to her, and the written record of relationships between the US and the indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast to tell the story of settlers, treaties, and reservations.