Gloria Cranmer Webster OC (July 4, 1931 – April 19, 2023) was a Canadian First Nations activist, museum curator and writer of Kwakwaka'wakw descent.
[1][2] Webster was a driving force behind the establishment of the U’Mista Cultural Centre at Alert Bay, which opened in 1980,[1] and served as its curator for a number of years.
She helped retrieve cultural treasures confiscated from her people by Canadian authorities during raids on potlatches during the 1920s.
[2] Webster worked with a linguist from UBC to develop a written orthography for the Kwak'wala language.
She also wrote books that are used to teach that language,[2] and became a narrator in 1973 documentary film The Potlatch: A Strict Law Bids us Dance.