Bill Reid's work has long been acknowledged for its astute and eloquent analysis of Haida tradition, and for the paradox of making modern art from the old Haida stories. It helped to make the so-called renaissance of Northwest Coast Native art visible to all. Bill Reid and Beyond pays Reid the compliment of expanding on his own clear-eyed self-scrutiny as he came to stand for Native art and artists, more perhaps than he would have wished.The book's nineteen contributors write from many perspectives, breaking down boundaries between art history and anthropology, between academic and artist, between colleague and politician.Alert to the political, economic, and social events of Bill Reid's lifetime, which have radically changed the way in which Native art is produced and received, this book participates in the important ongoing debates about Native art, demonstrating vividly that the exchange of ideas can, like works of art, change people's minds.

List of illustrationsForeword by Nika CollisonPreface by Ruth B. PhillipsIntroduction: Image and Imagination by Charlotte Townsend-Gault and Karen DuffekPart I: Expanding the Understanding of Haida ArtOn Its Own Terms by Miles RichardsonThe Will to Be Haida by Doris ShadboltA Matter of Choice by Bill McLennanGoldsmith/Culturesmith by George RammellPart II: Locating CommunityMan, Myth or Magic? by GuujaawA Non-Haida Upbringing: Conflicts and Resolutions by Gwaganad (Diane Brown)On Shifting Ground: Bill Reid at the Museum of Anthropology by Karen DuffekBill Reid: Master of Patronage by Alan L. HooverHaidas, Human Beings and Other Myths by Marcia CrosbyPart III: Revisiting the RevivalWhat is a Renaissance? by David SummersReconsidering the Northwest Coast Renaissance by Aldona Jonaitis"Other-Side" Man by Doug CranmerMemories of Bill Reid: A Most Unlikely "Indian" by Ki-ke-in (Ron Hamilton)Was Bill Reid the Fixer of a Broken Culture or a Culture Broker? by Aaron GlassPart IV: Reconciling Aboriginality and ModernityTwo Bears by Scott WatsonStruggles with Aboriginality/Modernity by Charlotte Townsend-GaultA Bringer of Change: "Through Inadvertence and Accident" by Marianne NicolsonRe: Reading Reid and the "Revival" by Leslie DawnBeyond by Loretta ToddBibliography Biographical Notes on the Contributors