Multimedia Collection
Carved From the Heart: A Portrait of Grief, Healing and Community
VHS
30 minutes
E99 .T8 C371 1997
One man loses his son to a cocaine overdose. Grieving, Stan Marsden, a Tsimpsean wood carver, decides to create a totem pole and invites the community of Craig, Alaska to help. The project grows and helps a community heal; bringing people of diverse backgrounds together and acknowledging common problems of personal loss, drug abuse, suicide and violence. The video also acknowledges the intergenerational grief that grows out of rapid changes in lifestyle and interruptions to the passage of tradition within Alaska Native and American Indian communities.
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