The Native Creative Process: A Collaborative Discourse Between Douglas Cardinal and Jeannette ArmstrongThis series of conversations between the architect Douglas Cardinal and Okanagan Indian writer Jeannette Armstrong, is an attempt to express the philosophy central to the identity of First Nations peoples and the distinctive creative process in design, art and literature. |
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