"First-hand accounts of indigenous people's encounters with colonialism are rare. A daily diary that extends over fifty years is unparalleled. Based on a transcription of Arthur Wellington Clah's diaries, this book offers a riveting account of a Tsimshian elder who moved in both colonial and Aboriginal worlds. From his birth in 1831 to his death in 1916, Clah witnessed profound change: the arrival of traders, missionaries, and miners, and the establishment of industrial fisheries, wage labour, and reserves. His many voyages physical, cultural, and spiritual provide an unprecedented Aboriginal perspective on colonial relationships on the Pacific Northwest Coast."--Pub. desc.
Record details
ISBN:0774820063 (sc.)
ISBN:0774820055 (hc.)
ISBN:9780774820066 (sc.)
ISBN:9780774820059 (hc.)
Physical Description:xviii, 306 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm. print
Publisher:Vancouver : UBC Press, c2011.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [280]-289) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
1. The life and times of Arthur Wellington Clah -- 2. Keeping account: the diary -- 3. The fur trade era -- 4. Chasing gold -- 5. Food production and wage labour -- 6. Land matters -- 7. Becoming a Christian -- 8. Parading and preaching -- 9. Clah and the missionaries -- 10. The changing world of feasting -- 11. Ligeex, chief of the Gispaxlo'ots -- 12. Old age: the end of voyaging -- Appendices: 1. Clah's trade records for 24 and 25 December 1865 ; 2. Key people in Clah's world.
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