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Duplicates to
[Min?] J. Hill. Cape Mudge
Feb.6th/41
Dear Miss Aitken, (Alert Bay)
Our mutual friend, Noel Stewart, suggests I should write to you and tell you and Miss Fleck about the movement started a few months ago in Victoria, with the approval of the Director of Indian Affairs at Ottawa and of Major McKay at Vancouver, to revive, where opportunity offers the latent gifts of the young people in our Indian schools along the line of arts, crafts, and drama. (Major Bullock-Webster is a member of my Committee and that speaks for itself.) The main objects in view are to assist our Indians in a development which should presently provide an economic security for at least a few of them; should contribute to Canadian culture should gradually substitute accurate reproductions of authentic objects as substitutes for the hideous and misleading, inaccurate “souvenirs” at present offered to tourists; and not least should assist in establishing more sympathetic relations between them and their white fellow Canadians.
These practical efforts sprung from the start made at the Inkameep school under Anthony Walsh and at Lytton under Noel Stewart. Both have found that by giving the children entire freedom to express their own ideas of the mythical personages associated with their old and useful legends or in the painting of the wild life or the activities [are then] quite remarkable evidences of skill rise to the surface and not only in art but in drama, and craftsmanship. Obviously outstanding ability is not present in them all, but undoubtedly it is in a fair proportion.
I am most anxious to secure the interest and support of the staff of the various schools, realising the development of our object must take time; I am hoping those to whom I write will be kind enough to write me their own experience and points of view, and that they will give me the name of any teachers in other schools who would feel sympathetic [page break] towards our ideas.
I have an idea Captain Barry may already have said something about my Committee’s desires, and he is desirous of bringing before the young people selected specimens of the outstanding skills of their forbears, not with the idea of compelling them into exactly similar lines of expression, though hoping some may be carefully reproduced for “souvenir” eventually; but to stimulate them to try and develop in themselves abilities which shall open to them means of honourable self support and a demonstration that they too should contribute to the economic and artistic life of Canada.
Doubtless you have seen a copy of “The Tale of the Nativity” from Inkameep which my Committee published last Fall and of which many more than the 1000 copies printed have been called for from England and U.S.A. as well as in Canada. We hope later on to publish further examples of the gifts of our Indian Children in B.C., and I am hoping that you will trust me with specimens of spontaneous work in any form from your own school.
Yours very truly,
[Alice Ravenhill]
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Alice Ravenhill to Miss Aitken (Feb.6, 1941)
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One of several form letters Alice Ravenhill sent out to the principals and teachers Indian Residential and Day schools across British Columbia to inquire about existing arts-based education initiatives and to invite these educators to join the BCIACWS in supporting and building on the initiatives began by Anthony Walsh and Noel Stewart. She explains that her intent with focusing on art in particular is to "bring about a more sympathetic relation between them and their white fello [sic] Canadians" and to replace the kitchy Aboriginal-themed souvenirs in tourist shops with actual artwork by Aboriginal students at Residential Schools, in the interest of showing them how to utilize their artistic talents to make a living.
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Alice Ravenhill
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Royal BC Museum, BC Archives (F/I/R19)
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Feb.6, 1941
Alert Bay
Alice Ravenhill
Anthony Walsh
Art
Captain Barry
Drama
Indian Affairs
Inkameep
Inkameep Day School
Legend
Major Bullock-Webster
Major McKay
Noel Stewart
Residential School
Souvenir
St. George's Indian Residential School
Story
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Duplicates to Rev. F Burnling, Reply - Hazelton
and Rev. F Inglfield, Alert Bay, No reply
Feb.6th 1941
To the Red. J.M.Kennedy. O.N.I.
Indian School.
Kamloops. B.C.
Dear Sir,
I venture to trespass upon you [sic] time to tell you of a movement started some months ago in Victoria, with the approval of the Director of the Indian Affairs Office at Ottawa and of Major McKay at Vancouver, to revive where opportunity offers, the latent arts of the young people in the Indian Schools of the Province with the view of assisting them to an improved economic future by the sale of accurate “souvenirs”; to incite them to contribute along these lines to Canadian culture, and, not least to bring about a more sympathetic relation between them and their white fello [sic] Canadians. These practical efforts arose from the start made at Inkameep under Anthony Walsh and at St. George’s School, Lytton under Noel Stewart, who have found that be encouraging the elder children to express their own ideas either of the mythical personages playing parts in their old folklore or in the painting of the wild life with which some are surrounded or of their own activities quite remarkable evidence of marked ability come to the surface in a fair proportion, capable of development into carefully supervised commercial levels. Major Bullock-Webster (A member of the Committee here of which I am Secretary) finds similar innate gifts show themselves in reproduction of native legends or plays in dramatic form.
You will I know, share my Committee’s desire to supersede the inaccurate representations of so-called B.C. art in souvenir stores throughout the Province; and those of this desire will take time and organization to realize. I am anxious to secure the interest of those in charge of these Indian schools by allowing me to hear whether any of the children have tried thus to develop their latent gifts along their own (untaught) lines, and whether the Art [page break] Instructor in your schools is interested in this effort and has tried experiments with the children.
Captain Barry is definitely interested in our project, and desirous of bringing selected representations of the outstanding skills of their forebears before the young people, not with intention that they should be copied, unless with the idea of reproducing them in different ways for eventual sale, but by stimulating them to endeavour to develop for themselves abilities which shall open in them means of honourable self support and a demonstration that they too can contribute to the economic and not least the artistic life of Canada. No doubt you have seen a copy of “The Tale of the Nativity” which my Committee published and of which many more than the 1000 copies printed have been called for from England and U.S.A. as well as Canada. We hope to publish further evidences of the Indian childrens’ gifts and I am hoping that presently you will trust me with specimens of spontaneous work along some lines from your own school.
Yours very truly,
[Alice Ravenhill]
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Alice Ravenhill to J.M Kennedy (Feb.6, 1941)
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An account of the resource
One of several form letters Alice Ravenhill sent out to the principals and teachers Indian Residential and Day schools across British Columbia to inquire about existing arts-based education initiatives and to invite these educators to join the BCIACWS in supporting and building on the initiatives began by Anthony Walsh and Noel Stewart. She explains that her intent with focusing on art in particular is to "bring about a more sympathetic relation between them and their white fello [sic] Canadians" and to replace the kitchy Aboriginal-themed souvenirs in tourist shops with actual artwork by Aboriginal students at Residential Schools, in the interest of showing them how to utilize their artistic talents to make a living.
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Alice Ravenhill
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Royal BC Museum, BC Archives (F/I/R19)
Date
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Feb.6, 1941
"The Tale of the Nativity"
Anthony Walsh
Indian Affairs
Inkameep Day School
Legend
Major Bullock-Webster
Major McKay
Noel Stewart
Play
Publication
Residential School
Souvenir
St. George's Indian Residential School
Story
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Jan. 3, 1941
Dear Mr. Stewart,
Happily you mentioned that you would be away from Lytton for a few days or I should feel great reproaches for the delay in saying, “Thank you many times over for the charming, novel and totally unexpected gift from you and your boys; valuable from several points of view, for it suggests a line of Indian “souvenir” which should find a ready sale in the tourist season. As soon as great pressure of work permits I shall take it to one or two likely stores here and sounds them on the subject. Then, also, I want to reassure you of the safety of your press cuttings. I have written for duplicates where I can trace their origin; and Mr. Walsh in whose too brief visit has told me a source from which I should get the address of “the Family Herald.”
Now, for you opinion. The successful sale of “The Tale of the Nativity” (I believe all the 1000 copies are sold) lands the stores here to ask for a booklet they could sell tourists in the summer. Consulting my Committee they are so pleased with your cuttings that I am desired to ask further information concerning the 35 Legends you tell me are “being considered” by an American publisher. Could we secure their publication in B.C. would you feel like asking their return to you for the purpose. What is your idea of price, profits, and their utilization. After paying for the artist’s illustrations in “The Tale” the small (relatively) profits are coming to Committee to carry on work, hitherto paid out of my slender purse; they amount only after payment of commission to stores, costs of distribution, complimentary copies, etc., to about 130 dollars. But subscriptions bore the [end of fragment].
[Alice Ravenhill]
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Alice Ravenhill to Noel Stewart (Jan.3, 1941)
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Tourism; profits; publishing
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An account of the resource
Alice Ravenhill refers to a wooden carving made by Noel Stewart's students of "Mr. Coyote taking his Sunday Service" as a potential model for a type of Aboriginal souvenir that could be produced by the children in Residential schools and sold in shops in cities like Victoria. Further, she expresses explicit interest in building on the success of "The Tale of Nativity" by publishing a small booklet of Aboriginal tales, also to be prepared and illustrated by Mr. Stewart's students, which could be sold in a similar manner to her proposed figurines. The later pages of the letter are missing.
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Alice Ravenhill
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Royal BC Museum, BC Archives (F/I/R19)
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Jan.3, 1941
"The Tale of the Nativity"
Alice Ravenhill
Anthony Walsh
Legend
Noel Stewart
Publication
Residential School
Souvenir
St. George's Indian Residential School
Story
The Family Herald