Landscapes and Social Transformations on the Northwest Coast
Jeff Oliver
Broschiertes Buch

Landscapes and Social Transformations on the Northwest Coast

Colonial Encounters in the Fraser Valley

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The Fraser Valley in British Columbia has been viewed historically as a typical setting of Indigenous-white interaction. Jeff Oliver now reexamines the social history of this region from pre-contact to the violent upheavals of nineteenth and early twentieth century colonialism to argue that the dominant discourses of progress and colonialism often mask the real social and physical process of change that occurred here--change that can be more meaningfully tied to transformations in the land. The Fraser Valley has long been a scene of natural resource appropriation--furs and fish, timber and agr...