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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816026103321

Autore

Fisher Robin <1946->

Titolo

Contact and conflict : Indian-European relations in British Columbia, 1774-1890 / / Robin Fisher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Vancouver, : UBC Press, 1992

ISBN

0-7748-0400-9

1-283-22542-5

9786613225429

0-7748-5390-5

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (295 p.)

Disciplina

971.1/004/97

Soggetti

Indians of North America - British Columbia - History

Indians of North America - Canada - Government relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-239) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- The Maritime Fur Trade -- The Land-Based Fur Trade -- The Transitional Years, 1849-1858 -- The Image of the Indian -- Gold Miners and Settlers -- The Missionaries -- Government Administrators -- The Consolidation of Settlement: The 1870's and 1880's -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Originally published in 1977, Contact and Conflict has remained an important book, which has inspired numerous scholars to examine further the relationships between the Indians and the Europeans -- fur traders as well as settlers. For this edition, Robin Fisher has written a new introduction in which he surveys the literature since 1977 and comments on any new insights into these relationships. Fisher contends that the fur trade had originally brought minimal cultural change to the Indians. In 1858 it essentially came to an end, and with the beginning of white settlement, there was a fundamental change in the relationship between Indians and Europeans. What had been a reciprocal system between the two civilizations became a pattern of white dominance. He shows that while the Indians had been able to adjust gradually to the changes introduced by the traders in the contact



period, they lost control of their culture under the impact of colonization.