The Indian History of British Columbia The Impact of the White Man

by Duff, Wilson

• ISBN13: 9780771894831
• ISBN10: 077189483X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2014-02-19
• Publisher: The Royal British Columbia Museum

Summary

First published in 1965, The Indian History of British Columbia: The Impact of the White Man remains an important book thanks to Wilson Duff's rigorous scholarship. It is an excellent overview of the history of the interaction between the First Nations of British Columbia and the colonial cultures that came to western North America. In its 30 years in print, this book has sold more than 15,000 copies and continues to reside on the reading lists of many university and college anthropology courses. Wilson Duff wrote this book as the first in a series. The second was to be the first book in a line of 'ethnic histories' on specific First Nations; the third was to cover a thousand or so years before contact with Euro-Americans. Regrettably, he never finished the other manuscripts. But The Impact of the White Man stands alone and is, indeed, a mainstay of anthropology and history in British Columbia.

Author Biography

Wilson Duff (1925–76) was curator of anthropology at the BC Provincial Museum (now Royal BC Museum) from 1950 to 1965, when he accepted a teaching position at the University of British Columbia. He became one of the most important anthropologists of his time and published numerous articles and books on First Nations and anthropology in BC.

Table of Contents

Foreword to the New Edition	p. 8
Foreword to the 1992 Edition	p. 9
Acknowledgements	p. 11
Introduction	p. 13
The Indians of British Columbia	p. 17
The Problem of Indian Names	p. 17
The Classification of Indian Groups	p. 20
Population	p. 53
The Aboriginal Population	p. 53
Changes Since 1835	p. 56
The Present Indian Population	p. 64
The Impact of the White Man	p. 72
The Fur-Trade Period: Stimulus to Growth	p. 73
The Colonial Period: Formative Years	p. 84
Period Since Confederation: Years of Change	p. 87
Phonemes and Phonetic Key	p. 159
First Nations of B.C., 1997	p. 164
Bibliography	p. 168
Suggested Reading	p. 175
Index	p. 177
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