The First Nations of British Columbia

Description

The First Nations of British Columbia provides an up-to-date, concise, and accessible overview of First Nations’ peoples, cultures, and issues in British Columbia.
Robert Muckle surveys the history, diversity, and complexity of First Nations from an anthropological perspective, incorporating archaeological, ethnographic, historic, and legal-political issues.
Muckle begins by describing today’s First Nations, including information on populations, settlements, territories, bands, and other affiliations.
The following sections focus on prehistory, traditional lifeways and cultural change over the past few hundred years, as well as the impact of the fur trade, gold rushes, European and American settlement and government, missionaries, and residential schools.
Current issues regarding aboriginal rights and the treaty negotiation process are also discussed.
This new edition contains current information on plant management, wage labour, the Nisga’a Agreement, and the discovery of Kwaday Dan Sinchi – the 600-year-old remains of a man found frozen in northwestern BC.
The appendices, readings, and all names, data, and spellings have been updated.
teachers and students, and an excellent introduction for anyone interested in BC’s First Nations.