Ed Raub

Edward’s interest in Native American arts was pushed to the forefront of his life because he was told by the Catholics and other religious factions he wasn’t “supposed to be Indian”.

Member of the Makah Tribe, Neah Bay, Washington. Edward was Officially enrolled in the Makah tribe two weeks after being born in Port Angeles, Washington 1954

Edward has been carving since the Spring of 1975 and his first carving was of a Raven Dancer which sold to Ye Olde Curiosity Shop on Seattle’s Water front for $195 and, he is self-taught but graduated from the Institute of American Indian Arts 1972, GPA 3.25 Majoring in Native American Arts. From 2000 to 2007 Edward was enrolled in the University of Alaska Southeast in the Tlingit Emersion studies learning Tool Making, Northwest Coast Form line Design, language, song and dance. College funding expired and he came within 4 credits of graduating with a Bachelor’s Degree in Native Arts.

Edward’s interest in Native American arts was pushed to the forefront of his life because he was told by the Catholics and other religious factions he wasn’t “supposed to be Indian”. The United States welfare agency forcefully broke up his family in 1958 and Edward was 3rd from the youngest of eight children. That action scattered every family member to the Four Winds and both parents were incarcerated so they could not find them and take them back. He’s never seen his mother since and met with his father briefly in 1978. 

Meeting with siblings in the 1990s proved disappointing for him as all were severely inebriated by alcohol; Edward himself stopped drinking alcohol in 1985. Currently residing in Seattle Edward’s art production is becoming increasingly more difficult as arthritis is setting in. Small totem poles are still being carved when health permits and the ones sold to Raven’s Nest are in demand and sell fast.