Between 1922 and 1924, the young Canadian anthropologist T. F. McIlwraith spent eleven months in the isolated community of Bella Coola, British Columbia, living among the people of the Nuxalk First Nation. ...

Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples: A Short Introduction fills a previously overlooked gap by providing the first comprehensive overview of Canada’s First Nations people. Drawn from the highly successful ...

Tracking Dr. Lonecloud: Showman to Legend Keeper, by Ruth Whitehead, Nova Scotia Museum ethnologist, is a book that includes the memoir of Jerry Lonecloud, a Mi’kmaw hunter, healer, and showman. Co-published ...

Despite the long human history of the Canadian central arctic, there is still little historical writing on the Inuit peoples of this vast region. Although archaeologists and anthropologists have studied ...

Outstanding Academic Title, 2002 - Choice

Canadian nationalists in the 19th century argued that the North, with its extremes of winter, distance and isolation defined the country’s essential character ...

“The people of the west coast of Vancouver Island used to be called Nootka by Europeans. We know ourselves as Nuu-chah-nulth, which can be translated as “along the mountains” and refers to our traditional ...

Out of the Mist celebrates the art, culture and history of the Nuu-chah-nulth (formerly called Nootka) nations. It features the material culture – including many major art pieces – of the richly ...

In this book, Georges Sioui, who is himself Wendat, redeems the
original name of his people and tells their centuries-old history by
describing their social ideas and philosophy and the relevance of both ...

This book is an ethnography of the cultural politics of
Native/non-Native relations in a small interior BC city — Williams
Lake — at the height of land claims conflicts and tensions. Furniss
analyses ...

These journals comprise one of the principal sources of information on early European settlement in BC and provide a remarkable and unique record of the establishment of Fort Langley. Although the journals ...