![]() ![]() ![]() The Kwakiutl people live in and around the Queen Charlotte Strait, which is on the central coast of British Columbia, Canada they formerly inhabited the northeastern part of Vancouver Island as well. Events in History at the Time of the Novel Kwakiutl Indians For much of her life Craven had struggled with a career as a fiction writer, experiencing only nominal success, but at the age of sixty-nine her quietly moving book about life in a Kwakiutl Indian village would become the culmination of her career. She began her writing career as a newspaper journalist, and in fact it was a story she wrote for the Saturday Evening Post, based on the experiences of a minister in the Queen Charlotte Islands of British Columbia, that was the genesis of her novel I Heard the Owl Call My Name. Margaret Craven was born in Bellingham, Washington, in 1898, and attended Stanford University. A novel set in the mid-1960s in the Kwakiutl Indian village of Kingcome, British Columbia published in 1967.Ī young Anglican vicar finds peace in life and death among the Kwakiutl tribe.Įvents in History at the Time of the Novel ![]()
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