Raven's Cry (novel)

Raven's Cry
AuthorChristie Harris
Cover artistBill Reid
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
PublisherUniversity of Washington Press
Publication date
1966
Publication placeCanada
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages194
ISBN0295972211

Raven's Cry is a 1966 novel by Christie Harris and illustrated by Bill Reid. The book tells the tale of how the Haida people and their culture were "pushed to the edge of extinction", through the story of the Eagle chief Albert Edward Edenshaw, uncle of Charles Edenshaw. Harris acknowledged the assistance she received from the anthropologist Wilson Duff.[1]

It won the 1967 Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award.[2]

  1. ^ Kathy Bedard Sparrow, "Correcting the Record: Haida Oral Tradition in Anthropological Narratives", Anthropologica, vol 40, 1998, page 220 ["Christie Harris, whose book, Raven's Cry (1966), was a fictional account of Albert Edward Edenshaw's life, acknowledged the invaluable assistance she received from Duff who was ..."]
  2. ^ "Canadian Library Association | Past Winners". www.cla.ca. Archived from the original on July 22, 2015. Retrieved January 13, 2022.