Best of Chief Dan George westcoastees of the Coast Salish First

of the Coast Salish First Nations

7 1/4” height

100% Silk Boxed Tie with Salmon design by artist Anthony Joseph

Motherhood lined journal by artist Betty Albert

and so began a film career that reached its peak with his legendary performance of the role of Old Lodgeskins

Best of Chief Dan George westcoastees of the Coast Salish FirstChief Dan George was an accomplished performer, poet, philosopher, champion of first Nations peoples, loving patriarch of a large family, was born in 1899 on a Salish Band reserve on Burrard Inlet, in North Vancouver, one of twelve children of the chief. His given name was Teswahno, meaning thunder coming up over the land from the water. Like most native children at that time, under the influence of the Catholic Church, and in need of white culture's