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Spuzzum

Fraser Canyon Histories 1808-1939

By (author) Annie York
Categories: Ethnic studies, Social groups and identities, Society and culture: general, Society and Social Sciences, United States of America, USA, North America (USA and Canada), The Americas, Place qualifiers, Relating to Native American people, Relating to peoples: ethnic groups, indigenous peoples, cultures, tribes and other groupings of people, Relating to specific groups and cultures or social and cultural interests, Interest qualifiers
Publisher: UBC Press
Hardcover : 9780774806664, 296 pages, September 1998
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Table of contents

Acknowledgments

Note on Authorship

Fraser Canyon Histories: Introduction

1 Spuzzum

2 Song for Simon Fraser, Song for Mount Baker: Strangers in the Land

3 Land and Cosmos in a Shifting Economy

4 Nlaka'pamux Thought and the Christian Church

5 Families, Identities, and a War Widow's Pension

6 Chiefs and Land

7 A Pause in the Story

8 Postscript: Approaching the Past

Bibliography

Appendix: Place Names

Glossary

Index

Description

Living on the banks of the turbulent Fraser River, the Nlaka’pamux people of Spuzzum have a long history of contact with non-aboriginal peoples. They watched as Hudson’s Bay Company employees hacked a path through the mountains for the fur brigades, and over time they found themselves in the path of the Cariboo road, the CPR, and virtually every commercial and province-building initiative undertaken in the region over the past two centuries. Juxtaposing historical narratives and cultural interpretation from the community of Spuzzum with archival information, this book explores the history of Spuzzum in the light of concepts central to the Nlaka’pamux definition of family, political authority, land, and cosmos.

Awards

  • Winner, Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine 2000

Reviews

This book stands as part of an ongoing awareness of Native cultural persistence, alongside a long history of adaptation to the Euro-Canadian economy and society.

- Robert Campbell

This text is lucid and jargon-free, and the photographs interesting and well placed . .. Spuzzum will certainly be of interest to anthropologists, local historians, and specialists who have been following the debate on the writing of Native history.

- Kerry Abel

A sympathetic re-creation of the native side of that history. This is a model ethnohistory and a superb commentary on the complexities of being both historian and anthropologist ... This finely crafted book boasts good maps, numerous illustrations ...

- Choice