Potlatch People Mildred Valley Thornton JOURNAL This is a story about

This is a story about trust between parents and children and the importance of being true to oneself

and had extensive practical experience in the use of plants

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professor of sociology and criminology at the University of Manitoba

Robin Fisher is head of the Department of History at the University of Northern British Columbia

Potlatch People Mildred Valley Thornton JOURNAL This is a story aboutBorn of a large farming family in the small Ontario town of Dresden at the end of the nineteenth century, the young Mildred Stinson soon demonstrated to her parents that she was not destined to remain on the farm. They recognized her artistic abilities and sent her to study at Olivet College in Michigan, from which she graduated in 1910. She continued her studies at the Ontario School of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago before the lure of Canada's