Potlatch People Mildred Valley Thornton JOURNAL Robin Fisher is head of

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

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professor of sociology and criminology at the University of Manitoba

Potlatch People Mildred Valley Thornton JOURNAL Robin Fisher is head ofBorn 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