
Be of Good Mind
Essays on the Coast Salish
Bruce Granville Miller(Editor)
University of British Columbia Press
Will be published approx. on 1. January 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-0-7748-1324-2 (ISBN)
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Description
In this book, anthropologists, archaeologists, historians, linguists, and Aboriginal leaders describe the Coast Salish, Aboriginal peoples living in western British Columbia and Washington State. They focus on how Coast Salish lives and identities have been influences by the two colonizing nations and on by shifting Aboriginal circumstances. The volume builds on new scholarship to move beyond existing academic views of the Coast Salish, which largely derive from ecological anthropology, in creating a new view of the Coast Salish world.
Contributors point to the continual reshaping of Coast Salish identities and our understandings of them through litigation and language revitalization, as well as community efforts to reclaim their connections with the environment. Equally important is the development of much more detailed local and regional history and archaeology. They point to significant continuity of networks of kinfolk, spiritual practices, and understandings of landscape.
This is the first book-length effort to directly incorporate Aboriginal perspectives and a broad interdisciplinary approach to research about the Coast Salish.
Contributors point to the continual reshaping of Coast Salish identities and our understandings of them through litigation and language revitalization, as well as community efforts to reclaim their connections with the environment. Equally important is the development of much more detailed local and regional history and archaeology. They point to significant continuity of networks of kinfolk, spiritual practices, and understandings of landscape.
This is the first book-length effort to directly incorporate Aboriginal perspectives and a broad interdisciplinary approach to research about the Coast Salish.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Vancouver
Canada
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
15 b&w illustrations, 13 maps
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
500 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7748-1324-2 (9780774813242)
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Book
05/2007
University of British Columbia Press
€62.16
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Person
Bruce Granville Miller is a professor of anthropology at the University of British Columbia.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction / Bruce Granville Miller
1 Coast Salish History / Alexandra Harmon
2 The Not So Common / Daniel Boxberger
3 We have to Take Care of Everything That Belongs to Us / Nxaxalhts'I, also known as Albert (Sonny) McHalsie
4 To Honour our Ancestors We Become Visible Again / Raymond (Rocky) Wilson
5 Toward an Indigenous Historiography: Events, Migrations, and the Formation of "Post-Contact" Coast Salish Collective Identities / Keith Thor Carlson
6 "I can lift her up ...": Fred Ewen's Narrative Complexity / Crisca Bierwert
7. Language Revival Programs of the Nooksack Tribe and the Sto:lo Nation / Brent Galloway
8. Sto:lo Identity and the Cultural Landscape of S'olh Temexw / Dave Schaepe
9. Conceptions of Coast Salish warfare, or Coast Salish Pacifism Reconsidered: Archaeology, History, and Ethnography / Bill Angelbeck
10. Consuming the Recent for Constructing the Ancient: The Role of Ethnography in Coast Salish Archaeological Interpretation / Colin Grier
Contributors; Index
Introduction / Bruce Granville Miller
1 Coast Salish History / Alexandra Harmon
2 The Not So Common / Daniel Boxberger
3 We have to Take Care of Everything That Belongs to Us / Nxaxalhts'I, also known as Albert (Sonny) McHalsie
4 To Honour our Ancestors We Become Visible Again / Raymond (Rocky) Wilson
5 Toward an Indigenous Historiography: Events, Migrations, and the Formation of "Post-Contact" Coast Salish Collective Identities / Keith Thor Carlson
6 "I can lift her up ...": Fred Ewen's Narrative Complexity / Crisca Bierwert
7. Language Revival Programs of the Nooksack Tribe and the Sto:lo Nation / Brent Galloway
8. Sto:lo Identity and the Cultural Landscape of S'olh Temexw / Dave Schaepe
9. Conceptions of Coast Salish warfare, or Coast Salish Pacifism Reconsidered: Archaeology, History, and Ethnography / Bill Angelbeck
10. Consuming the Recent for Constructing the Ancient: The Role of Ethnography in Coast Salish Archaeological Interpretation / Colin Grier
Contributors; Index