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Review

The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence: Introduced Disease and Population Decline among Northwest Coast Indians, 1774- 1874

By Robert Boyd

Review By Robert Galois

November 4, 2013

BC Studies no. 130 Summer 2001 | p. 127-9

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 130, Summer 2001

We acknowledge that we live and work on unceded Indigenous territories and we thank the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations for their hospitality.