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Essays on the Coast Salish
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Bruce Granville Miller
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$85.00 Hardcover
Release Date: 5/15/2007
ISBN: 9780774813235
$34.95 Paperback
Release Date: 1/1/2008
ISBN: 9780774813242
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About the Book
The Coast Salish peoples of western Washington and British Columbia have never been subjected to the same concerted anthropological scrutiny as have their Northwest Coast counterparts. For a long time they were viewed simply as a subset of the Northwest Coast culture area, and because they underwent assimilative pressures early on it was thought that little of their culture remained to be preserved. In the early 1950s, however, anthropologist Wayne Suttles was among the first to publish pioneering and sustained research about the Coast Salish, contending that they were worthy of study in their own right.
Be of Good Mind is a necessary follow-up to Suttles’ seminal work. This is the first book-length effort to incorporate Aboriginal perspectives directly. It offers a broad interdisciplinary approach, bringing together the views of Aboriginal leaders, anthropologists, historians, archaeologists, and linguists. Be of Good Mind reveals how Coast Salish lives and identities have been reshaped by two colonizing nations and by networks of kinfolk, spiritual practices, and ways of understanding landscape.
Contributors point to the continual transformation of Coast Salish identities through litigation and language revitalization and to community efforts to reclaim long-held cultural connections with the environment. Equally important is the development of detailed local and regional history and archaeology. Seamlessly edited by Bruce Granville Miller, this collection teases apart the received wisdom of earlier studies and brings the scholarship on the Coast Salish up to date.
Readers interested in First Nations history and contemporary issues in Canada and Aboriginal-academic relations will find this essential reading, as will scholars interested in ethnographic methods and interdisciplinary inquiry.
About the Author(s)
Bruce Granville Miller is a professor of anthropology at the University of British Columbia.
Contributors include Bill Angelbeck, Crisca Bierwert, Daniel Boxberger, Keith Thor Carlson, Brent Galloway, Colin Grier, Alexandra Harmon, Nxaxalhts’I (Sonny McHalsie), Dave Schaepe, and Raymond (Rocky) Wilson.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Bruce Granville Miller
1) Coast Salish History / Alexandra Harmon
2) The Not So Common / Daniel L. Boxberger
3) We Have to Take Care of Everything That Belongs to Us / Naxaxalhts’i, 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 Stó:lo Nation / Brent Galloway
8) Stó:lo Identity and the Cultural Landscape of S’ólh Téméxw / David M. Schaepe
9) Conceptions of Coast Salish Warfare, or Coast Salish Pacifism Reconsidered: Archaeology, Ethnohistory, 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
Reviews
Be of Good Mind is a remarkable volume that brings together a diversity of researchers, including historians, ethnographers, linguists, archaeologists, and, most significantly, community intellectuals, on equal terms. The theoretical engagement of many of the authors makes this book important not only for those working with the Coast Salish, but for anthropologists wishing to critically engage with Indigenous groups in Canada and beyond.
- Kisha Supernant, University of British Columbia, Canadian Journal of Archaeology, 32, 2008
Sample Chapter
Front Matter and Chapter One
Related Topics
BC Studies
History
Anthropology
Native Studies
Native Studies > Canada
Environmental Studies
History > Canada
BC Studies > History
BC Studies > Native Studies
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