Swan, Marika Echachis: - Marika Echachis Swan is of Tla-o-qui-aht / Nuu-chah-nulth, Irish, and Scottish descent. As a printmaker and community archivist, Swan has spent the last ten years studying the extensive body of Nuu-chah-nulth ancestral belongings currently held in museums and archives around the world. Her research focuses on directly supporting the reinstatement of cultural belongings back into local living cultural structures through repatriation, re-creation, and local knowledge sharing. In Swan's carving work she emphasizes creating items that are meant to be used as an invitation to bring everyday action back into alignment with Nuu-chah-nulth worldviews and lifeways.