Joe David
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"Joe David" is a Canada/Canadian-born artist, a member of the Tla-o-qui-aht Band of the Nuu-chah-nulth people/Nuu-chah-nulth people, also formally "adopted" into the Haida people, whose work is identified with the modern Northwest Coast art movement; among his close associates are teacher and art historian Bill Holm (art historian)/Bill Holm, Duane Pasco and Frank Charlie (with whom he apprenticed), and his cousin Ki-Ke-In/Ron Hamilton. He is also a singer of traditional Nuu-chah-nulth songs, and has a strong interest in shamanic traditions, both those from his own culture and from others.

David was born in the Clayoquot Sound/Clayoquot village of Opitsat 1, British Columbia/Opitsat (on Meares Island off the west coast of Vancouver Island) and grew up in Seattle, Washington. His father, Hyacinth David gave him a strong grounding in his cultural heritage. He studied art in the Job Corps, attended art school in Markos, Texas and Seattle, and worked briefly as a commercial artist (among other places, for Seattle's The Bon Marché/Bon Marché department store) before, in 1969, turning more specifically to Northwest Coast Native art after he was "blitzed" by the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture/Burke Museum collection of Northwest Native art, curated by Bill Holm.

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It's very hard for a team to be so high and then have to refocus. There is an emphasis on the WPIAL around here and with the states, it's hard going from that to this.

I think they just stepped up their defense and we didn't match it. I think we have to be tougher. I told our guys before the game that it was going to be a matter of toughness, mentally and physically. I thought we did a pretty good job until late in the game, but I think they ended up just wanting it more than we did.

They just couldn't get it going. You have those days and today was one of those days. The guys that led the way in the playoffs didn't have great efforts (yesterday).