Haida and Tsimshian cultural historian Marcia Crosby (PhD) acted in the capacity of a mentor in the development of Willard’s project. Willard’s interest in complicating the overly simplistic narratives of Indigenous peoples propagated by anthropologists like Smith and others benefits from Crosby’s writings. For the exhibition, Crosby’s text “New Cultural Practices, 1900-1926: A Photo Essay” was chosen to bridge academic and studio practices. In the essay, Crosby gives a detailed account—accompanied by historical images—of the Indigenous “leaders, governments and organizations that had emerged in B.C. during the first half of the 20th century,” who “were made up of diverse inter-tribal and inter-First Nations political unions”Crosby, “New Cultural Practices, 1900–1926,” 111. in order to establish the agency of these peoples against their association with dominant structures of colonial power.