‘I Heard the Owl Call My Name’ — A Classic About Faith and Hope

A priest working among Canada’s indigenous people faces his mortality.

Kwakiutl Totems / Credit: Eric J. Cooke via Museum of Anthropology and Kwakiutl Girl, 1914 / Credit: Edward Curtis via Library of Congress

In 1965, the American journalist Margaret Craven spent several weeks in a remote village in British Columbia, hoping to find material for a story. There she met Eric Powell, an Anglian priest who ministered to the Kwakiutl, a tribe whose…