Ron Hamilton

Ron Hamilton, or Ki-ke-in, is an internationally active Nuu-chah-nulth historian, poet and creator from the Hupacasath First Nation. Ki-ke-in has participated in numerous public debates, symposia and exhibitions concerning the history, culture and art of the Northwest Coast. His work has been exhibited at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery. He has contributed to the publications, Indian Residential Schools: the Nuuchahnulth Experience (1996) and Listening to our Ancestors: The Art of Native Life Along the North Pacific Coast (2006), and he co-edited the volume, Native Art of the Northwest Coast: A History of Changing Ideas (UBC Press, 2013) with Charlotte Townsend-Gault and Jennifer Kramer.