Research Catalog

Title

New histories for old : changing perspectives on Canada's Native pasts / edited by Ted Binnema and Susan Neylan.

Publication

Vancouver : UBC Press, c2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Binnema, Ted, 1963-
• Neylan, Susan, 1966-

Description

xvi, 280 p. : maps; 23 cm.

Summary

"Scholarly depictions of the history of Aboriginal people in Canada have changed dramatically since the 1970s when Arthur J. ("Skip") Ray entered the field. New Histories for Old examines this transformation while extending the scholarship on Canada's Aboriginal history in new directions." "The collection combines essays by prominent senior historians, geographers, and anthropologists with contributions by new voices in these fields. The chapters reflect the core themes studied by Ray himself, including Native struggles for land and resources under colonialism, the fur trade, "Indian" policy and treaties, mobility and migration, disease and well-being, and Native-newcomer relations." "This book sheds new light on the history of scholarship on Canada's Aboriginal past and the leading role played by one of Canada's foremost historians. It also provides a fascinating snapshot of the lines of inquiry pursued by emerging scholars in the field."--Jacket.

Subject

• Ray, Arthur J
• Indians of North America > British Columbia > History
• Indigenous peoples > Canada > History
• Indigenous peoples > Canada > Historiography
• Indigenous peoples > Historiography
• Indigenous peoples
• Indians of North America
• Indigenes Volk
• Geschichtsschreibung
• Iwi taketake
• Canada
• British Columbia
• Kanada

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Ted Binnema and Susan Neylan -- Arthur J. Ray and the writing of Aboriginal history / Ted Binnema and Susan Neylan -- Rupert's land, Nituskeenan, our land : Cree and English naming and claiming around the dirty sea / Jennifer S.H. Brown -- Echo of the crane : tracing Anishnawbek and Métis title to Bawaiting (Sault Ste. Marie) / Victor P. Lytwyn -- Compact, contract, covenant : the evolution of Indian treaty-making / J.R. Miller -- Smallpox along the frontier of the Plains borderlands at the turn of the twentieth century / Jody Decker -- Mapping the new El Dorado : the Fraser River gold rush and the appropriation of Native space / Daniel Marshall -- Innovation, tradition, colonialism, and Aboriginal fishing conflicts in the lower Fraser Canyon / Keith Thor Carlson -- Meanings of mobility on the Northwest Coast / Paige Raibmon -- "Choose your flag" : perspectives on the Tsimshian migration from Metlakatla, British Columbia, to New Metlakatla, Alaska, 1887 / Susan Neylan -- Gitxsan law and settler disorder : the Skeena "uprising" of 1888 / R.M. Galois -- Arthur J. Ray and the empirical opportunity / Cole Harris -- Contributors.

ISBN

• 9780774814133
• 0774814136
• 9780774814140
• 0774814144

LCCN

2008371160

OCLC

• ocn173508893
• 173508893
• SCSB-1456526

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library