Coming To Shore: Northwest Coast Ethnology, Traditions, and Visions

Coming To Shore: Northwest Coast Ethnology, Traditions, and VisionsThe Northwest Coast of North America was home to dozens of Native peoples at the time of its first contact with Europeans. The rich artistic, ceremonial, and oral traditions of these peoples and their preservation of cultural practices have made this region especially attractive for anthropological study. Coming to Shore provides a historical overview of the ethnology and ethnohistory of this region, with special attention given to contemporary,

Although his years at residential school compelled Sibbeston to fight tirelessly for the rights of Aboriginal northerners

In so doing

camaraderie

each letter plays a different role

she captured on canvas the mysteries and treasures of the wild Pacific coast

ensured Jim's lifelong affinity to the culture

clutching a tiny cedar canoe

anatomy and physiology

and villages of the BC coast come alive with remarkable detail and humour

Genetically distinct from their inland cousins and from wolves in any other part of the world

and its support of assimilationist education

paintings by Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun (Coast Salish)