Acknowledgments | p. vii |
Introduction: Myth Understandings; or First Contact, Over and Over Again | p. 1 |
Close Encounters of the First Kind | p. 15 |
First Contact as a Spiritual Performance: Encounters on the North American West Coast | p. 30 |
Reflections on Indigenous History and Memory: Reconstructing and Reconsidering Contact | p. 46 |
Poking Fun: Humour and Power in Kaska Contact Narratives | p. 69 |
Herbert Spencer, Paul Kane, and the Making of "The Chinook" | p. 90 |
Performing Paradox: Narrativity and the Lost Colony of Roanoke | p. 103 |
Stories from the Margins: Toward a More Inclusive British Columbia Historiography | p. 118 |
When the White Kawau Flies | p. 140 |
The Interpreter as Contact Point: Avoiding Collisions in Tlingit America | p. 160 |
Notes | p. 177 |
Bibliography | p. 207 |
Contributors | p. 222 |
Index | p. 226 |
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