The Edward Curtis Project | Touring Info | Acknowledgments
Producing Partners
The Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad
The PuSh International Performing Arts Festival
Arts Partners in Creative Development
The Canada Council for the Arts
The British Columbia Arts Council
The Vancouver Foundation
The North Vancouver Office of Cultural Affairs
The North Vancouver Museum
Presentation House Theatre
Media Sponsor
The North Shore News
Commissioning & Development Partner
Arts Partners in Creative Development
Presentation House Theatre
Artist Acknowledgements
Artists Rita Leistner and Marie Clements would like to thank, first and foremost, Nancy Kirkpatrick of the North Vancouver Museum and the Edward Curtis core production team as well as the field crew including Rosemary Georgeson, Richard Wilson, Rhiana Yazzie; Jackie Gow, Barbara Clayden and Susan Roy. Special thanks to the Akhiatak family, Brian Green, Christopher and Lara Morris, Char Tullie, Florence Furlong, Irwin Oostindie, Jadal q’egengá Andersen, Julia Wilson, Lanny and Shelley Asepermy, Paul Campbell, Paul Grech, Pete Teller, RV and Melana Robertson, and Scott “Chisel” Stephens, and Mark James and The Lotus Hotel in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
Ulukhaktok, NT:
Albert and Shirley Elias, Andy and Mary TK, Annie Oloakyok, Danny Taptuna, David and Bella Kuptana, Denise Okheena, Donna Akhiatak, Earl Akhiatak, Emily Kudlak, Fred and Trudy-Anne Akoaksion, Ida Kuneyuna, Irene Akhiatak, Isaac Kataoyak, Joane Ogina, Laverna, Ross, Carmell and
Tobin Klengenberg, Margaret Egotak, Mary Akoaksion, Melanie Kudlak, Noah Akhiatiac, Robert and Agnes Kuptana, Winnie Akhiatak
Aklavik, NT:
The Furlong family, Archie Arey and Rita Arey, Charlie Furlong, Dane Gibson, Dean McLeod, Dorothy Erigatoak, Florence Furlong, Ruth Furlong, Mary Kendi, Principal Velma Illisiak and the students and teachers of the Moose Kerr School
Inuvik, NT:
Angela Young, Eugene Reese, John Holman, Lee Mason, Paul Grech, Topsy Cockney, Victor Stewart, the Ten a.m. Coffee Club at the Gallery Café, the students and teachers of Samuel Hearne Secondary School
Fort McPherson, NT:
Alice Blake, Caroline Kay, David Cook, Mary F. Firth
Yellowknife, NT:
George Tuccaro, James Jenka, John Rombough, William S. Greenland
Haida Gwaii, BC:
Adina Young, Angela Long, Archie and Liz Stocker, Archie and Mandy Andersen, Candace Weir-White and Christian White, Cherie Wilson, Cooper Wilson, Cynthia Davidson, Daniel Bell, Dempsey Bell, Dorrinda Dysney, Eddie Williams, Elizabeth Moore, Erika Raelene (Stocker), Frazer, Gerry Johnson, Grand Chief Guujaaw Edenshaw, Gwaii Edenshaw, Jack Litrell, Jaalen Edenshaw, Jaret Parnell, Jason Major, Jeffrey Williams, Jenny Nelson, Jin Chong, Jody Russ, Joey Parnell, John Parnell, Johannah Andersen, Joseph Drager, Ken Rea, Leo Gagnon, Lucy Bell, Marlene Little, Maxine Edgars, Meredith and TK, Nathalie Macfarlane at the Haida Heritage Centre, Norman, Randy Martin, Randy Russ, Raven Ann Potschka, Raymond Jones, Roy Collison, Robert Watts, Sam, Aggie, and Helen at Nonnie’s B&B in Old Masset, Sean Brennan, Sheri Burton, Swarn Hollington, Tiffany Lavoie, Tiffany Vanderhoop, Tony Brown, Trevor Russ, Verne Brown, Warren MacIntyre, Wilfred Bell, everyone at The Copper Beach House and the Moon Over Nikoon
Arizona and New Mexico:
Berta Tom, Pastor Bob, Carol Palmer, Char Tullie and Robert Johnson at the Navajo Nation Museum, Sgt. Daren Simeone, Daryl Shack, David Jordan, Deenise Becenti, Earl Millfort, Frances Yazzie, George Hardeen, Jamie Billie, Marilyn Dempsey, Elizabeth Dempsey, Officer Nick Lafontaine, Peter
Teller, Roberta Roberts, Ronald P. Maldonado, Capt. Ronny Wanika, RV and Melana Robertson and family, Samantha Yazzie, Capt. Steve Nelson, Steven Begay, Officer Tom Leland, Vincent Joe Shirley
Vancouver, BC:
Adella Zeller, Alex Mountain, Alwin Benson, Andrew Lavigne, April Smith, Arthur Bear, Barb, Brian and Bo Green, Brian Frasier, Bud Osborne, Carol Martin, Cecily Nicholson, Christine Germano, Christopher and Lara Morris, Clyde Wright, Cody Georgeson, Curtis and Floyd, Dale Dingman, Dan and Deb, Dan Cottie, Dave Wilson, Deborah Hoyme, Derek Dean, Fern Charlie, Gary Donaldson, Harold Alashan, Hector Ritch, Hendrik Beune, Holly Boyd, Irwin Oostinde, Jacky, Johnny Roy “Bingo” Dawson, Juanita, Julia Wilson, Kathy Rattlesnake, Kevin Annet, Larry Bull, my cousins Lianne Scott and Patrick Sipos, Lucie Landry, Lyle Thompson, Mark James, Marvin Dennis, Mike Desjarlais, Molly Fanny, Nancy Bleck, Nick Collins, Nicole Lytham, Nick Westover, The Out to Lunch Bunch, Paul Campbell, Paul Ryan, Penny Wells, Peter Thompson, Pricillia Tait and the DTES Women Writers Group, Reta Blind and The Sweetgrass Place, Rick Alexander, Rick C., Rose Humphrey, Stan Paul, Steve and friends at The Carnegie, Steven Tong, Susie Gray and Mylo Ryley, Thea Walters and Mora at LINES, Tim Bonham
Ladner, BC:
Ken Turpin, Mike Crocker, Chief Rocky Wilson and Rosalie Wilson
Apache, Oklahoma:
The Comanche Indian Veterans Association (CIVA) and members Edmund and Elizabeth Mahseet, Eleanor McDaniel, George Red Elk, Jimmy and Beverly Caddo, Krista Nicole Hubbard and Susie and her parents Frank Hubbard, Lanny and Shelley Asepermy, Sunny Nevaquaya and Timothy Nevaquaya; Venessa Paukeigope Jenning, and Phyllis Wahahrockah-Tasi at The Comanche National Museum
Toronto and New York:
Alan Chin, Arthur Gottschalk, Bonnie and Fred Warrilow, Bree Seeley, Chris Decherd, Dale McMurchy, Daniel MacIvor, Gerald McMaster, Guntar Kravis, Diana Kuprel, Henry Knight, Iris Turcott, Kate Antony and Pam Walker, Katja Heinemann, Kay Koppedrayer, Kendall Messick, Robert Blake, Robert Palmer, Jamie Wellford, John Trotter, Lawrence Cook, Louie Palu, Lesley Sparks, Linda, Daniel, Stefan and Melanie Leistner, Martin Leistner and Rajah Monsor, Paul and Pam Warrilow, Melissa Williams, Phillip S. Block, Peter Gyles and Steve Simon
Rita Leistner Acknowledgements
Thank-you, always, to my mother Donna Leistner, my father Henry Leistner and my step-mother Joan Leistner; and to my agency Redux Pictures.
I’d also like to thank everyone I met in Ulukhaktok, Aklavik, Inuvik, Fort MCPHerson and Yellowknife; in Haida Gwaii and in Vancouver, especially on the Downtown Eastside; in The Navajo Nation, Arizona; in New Mexico and in Oklahoma; as well as family and friends in Toronto and New York.
Apologies to anyone who has been forgotten.
