Index

A Curious Clay: The Use of a Powdered White Substance in Coast Salish Spinning and Woven Blankets

By Liz Hammond-Kaarremaa

BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 129-150

weaving and spinning aboriginal culture Salish

Indian Fishing: Early Methods on the Northwest Coast

The 40th anniversary reprint of the original, classic study, Indian Fishing,has arrived. Its author is the multi-talented graphic artist, photographer, archeological fieldworker/ethnographer, and museum exhibit curator, the late Hilary Stewart. For only one of these many skills...

Review by Dianne Newell

BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 151-152

Before and After the State: Politics, Poetics, and People(s) in the Pacific Northwest

The authors of Before and After the State: Politics, Poetics, and People(s) in the Pacific Northwest attempt to expand our understanding of the development of two nations, and a border between them, from a mostly political story...

Review by Brandon Dimmel

BC Studies no. 202 Summer 2019 | Page(s) 194-195

Maritime Heritage in Crisis: Indigenous Landscapes and Global Ecological Breakdown

Views of the Salish Sea: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Change around the Strait of Georgia

Review by Natalie J.K. Baloy

BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Pages 147-149

Environmental and Cultural Contexts of Paleoshoreline Sites on the Northwestern Olympic Peninsula of Washington State

By Gary C. Wessen and David R. Huelsbeck

BC Studies no. 187 Autumn 2015 | Page(s) 263-291

archaeology Makah northwest coast Washington state

Whales and Whalers in Nuu-chah-nulth Archaeology

By Alan D. McMillan

BC Studies no. 187 Autumn 2015 | Page(s) 229-291

archaeology Makah Nuu-Chah-Nulth whales and whaling Barkley Sound northwest coast

Indigenous Oral History and Settlement Archaeology in Barkley Sound, Western Vancouver Island

By Iain McKechnie

BC Studies no. 187 Autumn 2015 | Page(s) 193-229

archaeology oral tradition Nuu-Chah-Nulth Barkley Sound northwest coast

Prerogatives, Sea Level, and the Strength of Persistent Places: Archaeological Evidence for Long-Term Occupation of the Central Coast of British Columbia

By Duncan McLaren, Farid Rahemtulla, Gitla (Elroy White), Daryl Fedje

BC Studies no. 187 Autumn 2015 | Page(s) 155-193

archaeology aboriginal rights Heiltsuk Nuxalk Wuikinuxv northwest coast

Revisiting “Dm Sibilhaa’nm Da Laxyuubm Gitxaaâa (Picking Abalone in Gitxaaâa Territory)”: Vindication, Appropriation, and Archaeology

By Charles R. Menzies

BC Studies no. 187 Autumn 2015 | Page(s) 129-155

archaeology Gitxaala shellfish northwest coast

Holocene Settlement History of the Dundas Islands Archipelago, Northern British Columbia

By Bryn Letham, Andrew Martindale, Duncan McLaren, Thomas Brown, Kenneth M. Ames, David J.W. Archer, Susan Marsden

BC Studies no. 187 Autumn 2015 | Page(s) 51-87

archaeology Tsimshian Dundas Islands northwest coast

An Ethnozooarchaeological Study of Land Otters and People at Kit’n’Kaboodle (49-dix-46), Dall Island, Alaska

By Madonna L. Moss

BC Studies no. 187 Autumn 2015 | Page(s) 21-51

archaeology Tlingit otters Alaska northwest coast

Zooarchaeological and Isotopic Insights into Locally Variable Subsistence Patterns: A Case Study from Late Holocene Southern Haida Gwaii, British Columbia

By Trevor J. Orchard, Paul Szpak

BC Studies no. 187 Autumn 2015 | Page(s) 87-129

archaeology Haida Charlotte Islands northwest coast

Maker of Monsters: The Extraordinary Life of Beau Dick

The recent passing of Beau Dick makes this documentary film both a testament and an affirmation of an extraordinary life. More than a recitation of the chronology of his life, the filmmakers have created a...

Review by Michelle McGeough

BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 160-161

At Sea with the Marine Birds of the Raincoast

Caroline Fox presents in the guise of an account of her experiences as a field biologist a wonderful memoir of coastal British Columbia.  Onboard the sailboat Achiever, her job was to survey birds from Vancouver Island to...

Review by Stephen Bocking

BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 149-105

Haro or Rosario? Maps, Navigation, and the Anglo-American Northwest Water Boundary Dispute, 1846-72

By John P.D. Dunbabin

BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 39-72

treaties maritime history Haro Strait San Juan Island and archipelago

Not Fit to Stay: Public Health Panics and South Asian Exclusion

In the spring of 2018, hundreds of people gathered between city hall and the public library in downtown Bellingham, Washington, to witness the dedication of a 10-ton granite “Arch of Reconciliation,” a monument to and...

Review by Jennifer Seltz

BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 152-153

Disappointment River: Finding and Losing the Northwest Passage

“You can get anywhere if you have the time” (106). Kylik Kisoun, an Inuvialuit guide from Inuvik, said this to Brian Castner when Castner, with the help of four friends, canoed the length of the...

Review by Stan Tag

BC Studies no. 199 Autumn 2018 | Page(s) 176-8

Entangled Territorialities: Negotiating Indigenous Lands in Australia and Canada

Over the past few decades, in settler states like Australia and Canada we have seen increased recognition of the complex nature of relations between Indigenous peoples and nations, on one side, and settler groups and...

Review by Brian Egan

BC Studies no. 199 Autumn 2018 | Page(s) 179-180

​Emily Patterson: The Heroic Life of a Milltown Nurse

In Emily Patterson: The Heroic Life of a Milltown Nurse, Lisa Smith transports the reader to late nineteenth century Pacific Northwest and evocatively offers a history of an extraordinary woman living through extraordinary times. Born in...

Review by Jane Errington

BC Studies no. 199 Autumn 2018 | Page(s) 186-7

Mixed Blessings: Indigenous Encounters with Christianity in Canada

Mixed Blessings is a collection of papers developed for a May 2011 workshop, “Religious Encounter and Exchange in Aboriginal Canada,” capably edited by historians Tolly Bradford and Chelsea Horton, whose helpful introduction and conclusion pull...

Review by Dorothy Kennedy

BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 | Page(s) 167-9

The W̲SÁNEĆ and Their Neighbours: Diamond Jenness on the Coast Salish of Vancouver Island, 1935

Anthropologist Rolf Knight launched a new chapter of Indigenous history in 1978 with the publication of his book, Indians at Work: An Informal History of Native Indian Labour in British Columbia, 1858-1930.[1]  In contrast to...

Review by Wendy Wickwire

BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 | Page(s) 169-72

The Life and Art of Arthur Pitts

Kerry Mason begins The Life and Art of Arthur Pitts with a question: ‘Why haven’t I heard about this artist?’ (x) By the end of the book the reader is persuaded that we should indeed...

Review by Maria Tippett

BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 | Page(s) 174-5