“When we came home, your father (Dan Cranmer) was dressed like this, bare feet in his shoes. He gave away everything, he did everything at once, to make us proud. At one time, to do all of the different great things among our people; others only did one thing at a time; he was the only one who did it all at one time, because his wife was a wise woman.”

(Axu, Agnes Alfred, at Alert Bay, June 20, 1975)

Photograph: Vickie Jensen