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Indian life on the Northwest coast of North America: as seen by the early explorers and fur traders during the last decades of the eighteenth century

Erna Gunther c1972 © University of Chicago Press
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  • 9780226310893 (paper)
  • 9780226310879 (ebook)
  • 9780226310886 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Native Peoples of the Americas
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • Illustrations (page vii)
  • Preface (page ix)
  • Introduction (page xi)
  • 1 The Russians Seek the "Great Land" and Thereby Arouse the Spaniards to Reconsider the Northern Boundary of "Alta California" (page 3)
  • 2 Captain Cook's Third Voyage to the Pacific Ocean Arrives at Nootka Sound (page 18)
  • 3 The Challenge of the Coast South of Nootka: The Strait of Juan de Fuca and the Columbia River (page 55)
  • 4 The Inside Passage, Where the Spaniards in the Sutil and the Mexicana Proceed More Slowly and Vancouver Hastens to Establish the Insularity of Vancouver Island (page 91)
  • 5 The Haida, the Shrewdest of Traders, Who Set the Style for Demands for Trade Goods (page 119)
  • 6 The Aggressive Tlingit, Who Discouraged Vancouver's Surveying and Stood off the Russians for Half a Decade (page 139)
  • 7 The Northernmost Reaches, with the Chugach of Prince William Sound, the Athapascans of Cook Inlet, and the Aleut and Russians at Unalaska (page 182)
  • Appendix 1: Eighteenth-century Objects in European Museums (page 204)
  • Appendix 2: Technological Processes of the Eighteenth Century (page 249)
  • Bibliography (page 263)
  • Index (page 273)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
ETH 19.3 (Summer 1972): 279-280 http://www.jstor.org/stable/480989
MAN 8.3 (Sept. 1973): 499-500 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2800358
RAIN 12 (Jan.-Feb. 1976): 7 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3032268
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