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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fisher, Robin, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--British Columbia--History.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Canada--Government relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, 1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes index.

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

ISBN:

0-7748-0400-9

1-283-22542-5

9786613225429

0-7748-5390-5

OCLC:

738388318