Aah Gahwatl Aah Gahwee (A Long Time Ago), 2005, mixed media on wool melton, 54.5 x 58 in.

Hazel Wilson (1941 – 2016, Old Massett)

Aah Gahwatl Aah Gahwee (A Long Time Ago), 2005

mixed media on wool melton, 54.5 x 58 in.

 

When I was a little girl, my grandmother Mary Bell (who was the 17th Hiilang Jaat among our people) and I would go and sit on the banks of the Yakoun River, where she would tell me the stories and legends about K’iid K’iyaas and Hiilang Jaat.

This is what she told me….