Written by well-known experts, this book provides an up-to-date portrait and analysis of one of the many dynamic faces of BC politics.

A vital contribution to current knowledge about the prehistory in British Columbia, 10,500 to 5,000 years ago.

A provocative account of one of the greatest entrepreneurial failures in Canadian history, this book documents the downfall of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, which helped develop the north-central corridor of British Columbia – then collapsed dramatically in 1919.

A critical ethnography of the Native Education Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Douglas Cole Examines the process of anthropological collecting on the Northwest Coast between 1875 and the Great Depression, in the context of the development of museums and anthropology.

Clarence Bolt demonstrates that the Aboriginal peoples of Canada were conscious participants in the acculturation and conversion process -- as long as this met their goals.

Kwakiutl String Figures will interest students of comparative cultures and will delight all who have time (and string) on their hands.

Originally published in 1977, Contact and Conflict has inspired numerous scholars to examine further the relationships between the Indians and the Europeans – fur traders as well as settlers.

This volume considers two British Columbia Native communities – the Lillooet and Shuswap communities of Fountain and Pavilion – and traces their development into complex societies.