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Indians in the Rockies
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1985
- Author
- Whyte, Jon
- Publisher
- Banff, Alta., Canada : Altitude Pub.
- Call Number
- 07.2 W62i
- Author
- Whyte, Jon
- Responsibility
- Jon Whyte
- Publisher
- Banff, Alta., Canada : Altitude Pub.
- Published Date
- 1985
- Physical Description
- 128 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Abstract
- Pertains to the history and movement of Indigenous Peoples into the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Written through a colonial perspective, author Jon Whyte offers his insight into Indigenous culture and the ways in which settlers were dependent on traditional Indigenous knowledge upon their arrival in North America. The book follows the migration of Indigenous Peoples into the valley of the Rocky Mountains.
- Contents
- Foreward (pg. 7)
- Introduction (pg. 11)
- The first hundred centuries (pg. 15)
- The mountain peoples (pg. 23)
- Strangers in the land (pg. 37)
- Calling cards 1840-1870 (pg. 41)
- The art of beadwork (pg. 51)
- Capital in reserve (pg. 55)
- Civilization: its discontents (pg. 61)
- Indian Days (pg. 71)
- All our yesterdays (pg. 81)
- Portfolio (pg. 85)
- Epilogue (pg. 122)
- Acknowledgments (pg. 123)
- Bibliography (pg. 127)
- About the author (pg. 128)
- ISBN
- 0919381154
- Accession Number
- 2019.60
- Call Number
- 07.2 W62i
- Collection
- Archives Library
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