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Spuzzum : Fraser Canyon histories, 1808-1939

Title
Spuzzum : Fraser Canyon histories, 1808-1939 / Andrea Laforet and Annie York.
Author
Laforet, Andrea Lynne, 1948-
Publication
Vancouver : UBC Press published in association with the Canadian Museum of Civilization, ©1998.

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Additional Authors
  • York, Annie, 1904-1991.
  • Canadian Museum of Civilization.
Description
xiv, 282 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
Summary
Living along the banks of the Fraser River, the Nlaka'pamux people of Spuzzum have a long history of contact with non-Aboriginal peoples. In 1808, they hosted Simon Fraser as an overnight guest, they later watched as Hudson's Bay Company employees hacked a path through the mountains for the fur trade, and over time they found themselves in the path of virtually every commercial and government initiative undertaken in the region over the past two centuries. Juxtaposing historical narratives and cultural interpretation from the community of Spuzzum with archival information, this book explores the history of Spuzzum in the light of concepts central to the Nlaka'pamux definitions of family, political authority, land, and cosmos.
Subject
  • Ntlakyapamuk Indians > History
  • Ntlakyapamuk Indians
  • Indianen
  • Cultuurcontact
  • Spuzzum (B.C.) > History
  • Fraser Canyon (B.C.) > History
  • British Columbia > Fraser Canyon
  • British Columbia > Spuzzum
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [260]-272) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Fraser Canyon Histories -- 1. Spuzzum -- 2. Song for Simon Fraser, Song for Mount Baker: Strangers in the Land -- 3. Land and Cosmos in a Shifting Economy -- 4. Nlaka'pamux Thought and the Christian Church -- 5. Families, Identities, and a War Widow's Pension -- 6. Chiefs and Land -- 7. A Pause in the Story -- Postscript: Approaching the Past -- App. Resource-Use Place Names -- Glossary of Nlaka'pamux Terms.
ISBN
  • 0774806664
  • 9780774806664
  • 0774806672
  • 9780774806671
LCCN
98226791
OCLC
  • ocm39369254
  • 39369254
  • SCSB-416551
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library