Based largely on the diaries of an Anglican missionary and the recorded memories of a Coast Salish elder, this article follows the path of a shaman during the last 24 years of his life on what was then known as Kuper Island (today’s Penelakut Island) in British Columbia’s Salish Sea. Despite the confiscation of the island’s Lamalcha village site by the British authorities in 1863, Chliraminset—known in English as Charlie Wilson—returned and adapted successfully to the new colonial regime as a farmer and logger, among other economic activities. His more traditional role as a shaman was also a lucrative one, but fundamental to the high-ranking social status he desired were the potlatches he hosted in order to display and distribute much of hi...
The Lillooet are a Salish speaking people living in the interior of southwestern British Columbia. I...
This paper challenges the long-standing view that aboriginal people were bystanders in the economic ...
My thesis is a life history of Chief William Matthews, the fourth and last hereditary chief Wiiaa of...
The Coast Salish Indians occupy an important position in the study of the native races of British Co...
The Klamath are a Native American group located in what is now southwestern Oregon. Extensive contac...
The Kaska are native to the Canadian regions of northwestern British Columbia, southern Yukon, and s...
Villages were the center of Chinookan life, filling the role that tribes did for Native people in ot...
This paper examines the history of the Yup\u27ik Eskimos of western Alaska and explores how their sh...
This paper is about the life and times of the Coast Salish chief Tth’asiyetun, a hereditary leader o...
Were the ancient Coast Salish farmers? Conventional anthropological wisdom asserts that the ethnogra...
During the mid nineteenth century, non-Native settlement and activities disrupted and changed histor...
Exploring the experiences of one Aboriginal man, Chief William (Billie) Hall of the Tzeachten reserv...
Includes bibliographical references and index.Across the Shaman's River is the story of one of Alask...
This article considers Tsimshian feasting activities from the 1860s to the turn of the century. It i...
Anthropological research regarding Coast Salish responses to the colonial conflict has held a centra...
The Lillooet are a Salish speaking people living in the interior of southwestern British Columbia. I...
This paper challenges the long-standing view that aboriginal people were bystanders in the economic ...
My thesis is a life history of Chief William Matthews, the fourth and last hereditary chief Wiiaa of...
The Coast Salish Indians occupy an important position in the study of the native races of British Co...
The Klamath are a Native American group located in what is now southwestern Oregon. Extensive contac...
The Kaska are native to the Canadian regions of northwestern British Columbia, southern Yukon, and s...
Villages were the center of Chinookan life, filling the role that tribes did for Native people in ot...
This paper examines the history of the Yup\u27ik Eskimos of western Alaska and explores how their sh...
This paper is about the life and times of the Coast Salish chief Tth’asiyetun, a hereditary leader o...
Were the ancient Coast Salish farmers? Conventional anthropological wisdom asserts that the ethnogra...
During the mid nineteenth century, non-Native settlement and activities disrupted and changed histor...
Exploring the experiences of one Aboriginal man, Chief William (Billie) Hall of the Tzeachten reserv...
Includes bibliographical references and index.Across the Shaman's River is the story of one of Alask...
This article considers Tsimshian feasting activities from the 1860s to the turn of the century. It i...
Anthropological research regarding Coast Salish responses to the colonial conflict has held a centra...
The Lillooet are a Salish speaking people living in the interior of southwestern British Columbia. I...
This paper challenges the long-standing view that aboriginal people were bystanders in the economic ...
My thesis is a life history of Chief William Matthews, the fourth and last hereditary chief Wiiaa of...