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Second edition. |
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1 online resource. |
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text file |
| Series |
McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 64
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McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 64.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"Archaeologists studying human remains and burial sites of North America's Indigenous peoples have discovered more than information about the beliefs and practices of cultures--they have also found controversy. These Mysterious People shows how Western ideas and attitudes about Indigenous peoples have transformed one culture's ancestors, burial grounds, and possessions into another culture's "specimens," "archaeological sites," and "ethnographic artifacts," in the process disassociating Natives from their own histories."-- Provided by publisher. |
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"Focusing on the Musqueam people and a contentious archaeological site in Vancouver, These Mysterious People details the relationship between the Musqueam and researchers from the late-nineteenth century to the present. Susan Roy traces the historical development of competing understandings of the past and reveals how the Musqueam First Nation used information derived from archaeological finds to assist the larger recognition of territorial rights. She also details the ways in which Musqueam legal and cultural expressions of their own history--such as land claim submissions, petitions, cultural displays, and testimonies--have challenged public accounts of Aboriginal occupation and helped to define Aboriginal rights in Canada. An important and engaging examination of methods of historical representation, These Mysterious People analyses the ways historical evidence, material culture, and places themselves have acquired legal and community authority"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
"Who were these mysterious people?" -- Burial grounds as sites of archaeology : Harlan I. Smith and the Jesup North Pacific Expedition -- Musqueam house posts and the construction of the "ethnographic" object -- The national colonial culture and the politics of removal and reburial -- The Great Fraser Midden and the civic colonial culture -- From colonial culture to reclamation culture : the Musqueam, Charles E. Borden, and salvage archaeology in British Columbia -- Conclusion. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Musqueam First Nation. |
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Musqueam First Nation -- Antiquities.
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Musqueam First Nation. |
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Antiquities. |
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Marpole Midden (Vancouver, B.C.)
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Marpole (Vancouver, B.C.) -- Antiquities.
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Coast Salish Indians -- British Columbia -- Vancouver Region -- Antiquities.
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Coast Salish Indians. |
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British Columbia -- Vancouver Region. |
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Coast Salish Indians -- Material culture -- British Columbia -- Vancouver Region.
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Material culture. |
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British Columbia. |
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Coast Salish Indians -- Land tenure -- British Columbia -- Vancouver Region.
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Land tenure. |
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Coast Salish Indians -- British Columbia -- Vancouver Region -- Government relations.
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Mounds -- British Columbia -- Vancouver Region.
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Mounds. |
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Kitchen-middens -- British Columbia -- Vancouver Region.
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Kitchen-middens. |
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Archaeology -- Social aspects -- British Columbia -- Vancouver Region.
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Archaeology -- Social aspects. |
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Archaeology. |
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Vancouver Region (B.C.) -- Antiquities.
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Vancouver Region (B.C.) -- Ethnic relations.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Roy, Susan, 1963- These mysterious people. Second edition. Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2016]. McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 64 (CaOONL)20159064376 (OCoLC)922140746 |
| ISBN |
9780773598935 (pdf) |
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0773598936 |
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9780773547100 |
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077354710X |
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