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Living Memory

“I was drawn to photography because I was trying to remember. There has been a gap in our transmission of our knowledge, and we used photography as a memory device,” says the artist-activist Marianne Nicolson, who is from the Musgamakw Dzawada’enuxw First Nation community of Kingcome Inlet, in British Columbia. Their three-square-mile reserve is a fraction of the vast territory occupied by the Musgamakw Dzawada’enuxw prior to colonization, a

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