We danced the Chief's Dance and blessed our artifacts. It was so powerful for me. We danced in our modern regalia in front of these magnificent ancient cedar capes and headdresses that would have done the same dance 200 years ago. I've done that dance hundreds of times, but this time I was overcome by the power of everything and broke down after we finished.
"Roy Henry Vickers", Order of Canada/CM, Order of British Columbia/OBC, British Columbia) is a Canada/Canadian First Nations artist. He owns and operates a gallery in Tofino, British Columbia.
Vickers was born on the Nass River but raised in Kitkatla, British Columbia/Kitkatla, Hazelton, British Columbia, and Victoria, B.C. His father was a fisherman who was matrilineally Tsimshian, also with Haida people/Haida and Heiltsuk ancestry. His mother was a schoolteacher whose parents had immigrated from England and who was in the 1940s adopted into the Laxsgiik/Eagle clan at Kitkatla, B.C. (making Roy also Eagle). His grandfather was a Kitkatla canoe-carver. The paintings and works that he has created reflect this mixed heritage as his work has many elements of the traditional art of the First Nations peoples of the Pacific Northwest, but remains quite distinctive.
Vickers became interested in Northwest Coast art partly under the influence of the anthropologist Wilson Duff.
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