Margaret B. Blackman (born 1944) is an

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known for her work with the

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First Nation of Haida Gwaii in British Columbia, Canada, beginning in the 1970s. She is, and has been for many years, a professor of anthropology at the

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at Brockport. Her best-known work is a collaborative biography of the Haida artist

Florence Davidson Florence Edenshaw Davidson (1896–1993) was a Canadian First Nations artist from the Haida. She created basketry and button-blankets and was a respected elder in her village of Masset, Haida Gwaii, British Columbia. Early life Florence Edensh ...

, published in 1982.

Bibliography

* Blackman, Margaret B. (1982; rev. ed., 1992) ''During My Time: Florence Edenshaw Davidson, a Haida Woman.'' Seattle: University of Washington Press. * Davidson, Robert, and Margaret B. Blackman (1992) Foreword. ''Raven's Cry'' by Christie Harris. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre. American anthropologists American women anthropologists American biographers American women biographers Anthropology educators State University of New York faculty 1944 births Living people American women academics 21st-century American women {{US-anthropologist-stub