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Author: John William Arctander Publisher: ISBN: Category : Indians of North America Languages : en Pages : 482
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Biography of Duncan, missionary and founder of Tsimshian Indian community of Metlakahtla, Annette Island, southern Alaska. History of community, notes on Tsimshians and their myths.
Author: John William Arctander Publisher: ISBN: Category : Indians of North America Languages : en Pages : 482
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Biography of Duncan, missionary and founder of Tsimshian Indian community of Metlakahtla, Annette Island, southern Alaska. History of community, notes on Tsimshians and their myths.
Author: Margaret Poynter Publisher: St. Louis : Concordia Publishing House ISBN: 9780570078814 Category : Indians of North America Languages : en Pages : 123
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A biography of the Christian missionary who helped the Tsimshian Indians establish a new home in Alaska.
Author: Peter Murray Publisher: Sono NIS Press ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 368
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Biography of missionary William Duncan, the Church of England representative who spent 30 years in British Columbia and another 30 years in Alaska, ministering to the Tsimshian Indians.
Author: Brian C. Hosmer Publisher: ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 336
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Although it is usually assumed that Native Americans have lost their cultural identity through modernization, some peoples have proved otherwise. Brian Hosmer explores what happened when cultural identity and economic opportunity converged among two Native American communities that used community-based industries to both generate income and sustain their cultures. Comparing a lumber business run by the Menominees of Wisconsin and a salmon cannery established by British Columbian and Alaskan Tsimshian communities known as Metlakatla, Hosmer reveals how each tribe responded to market and political forces over fifty years. Hosmer's innovative ethnohistory recounts how these Indians used the marketplace to maintain their distinctiveness to a far greater extent than those who became wage earners in the white man's world. Hosmer shows that by selectively incorporating elements of American capitalism into their cultural lives, the Menominees and Metlakatlans came to view modernization less as a threat to their tribal life than as a means for maintaining their independence. These tribes embraced the same market accused of hastening the demise of native societies and became comparatively successful in American terms even as they both honored fundamental values and forged new cultural identities. Over time, these peoples came to understand how the market worked, recognized that the broader economy operated according to market principles, and learned how to adjust to it. Hosmer reveals how their strategies of "purposeful modernization" brought relative economic independence and sometimes the respect and cooperation of local and federal governments, how it helped chart a middle course between unchecked individuality and a communal ethos that might stifle economic development, and how economic development and cultural values ultimately affected one another. American Indians in the Marketplace is a story of adaptation that acknowledges the hardship and suffering common to most Indian-white contact while emphasizing the benefits of selective modernization accompanied by a constant re-invention of tradition. It questions the victim thesis of Native American history and shows that native peoples can meet the challenges of surviving in the larger world.
Author: J. F. Bosher Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1450059635 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 839
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"During the century 1850-1950 Vancouver Island attracted Imperial officers and other Imperials from India, the British Isles, and elsewhere in the Empire. Victoria was the main British port on the north-west Pacific Coast for forty years before the city of Vancouver was founded in 1886 to be the coastal terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway. These two coastal cities were historically and geographically different. The Island joined Canada in 1871 and thirty-five years later the Royal Navy withdrew from Esquimalt, but Island communities did not lose their Imperial character until the 1950s."--P. [4] of cover.
Author: Jean Usher Publisher: ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 188
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"Duncan, William, lay missionary to the TSIMSHIAN (b at Bishop Burton, Eng 1832; d in Alaska 30 Aug 1918). Trained as a schoolmaster by the Church Missionary Society, Duncan came in 1858 to Fort Simpson, British Columbia. In 1862, during a devastating smallpox epidemic, he led several hundred natives to Metlakatla Pass sites, an ancestral Tsimshian village. Following in part the native [Aboriginal] church policy of Henry Venn, Secretary of CMS, he created a utopian Christian Indian settlement whose success and material prosperity attracted the Northwest Coast Indians. Duncan's ideas and methods were widely imitated and he received international recognition. But the division within the Anglican Church at Victoria brought a new bishop to Metlakatla, who challenged Duncan's authority, his reluctance to offer communion to converts and his emphasis on secular progress. A bitter schism divided the village and in 1887 Duncan and many Tsimshian created a second and independent Christian utopia at New Metlakatla, Annette Island, Alaska."--Canadian Encyclopedia.
Author: Francess G. Halpenny Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 9780802034601 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 1346
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These biographies of Canadians are arranged chronologically by date of death. Entries in each volume are listed alphabetically, with bibliographies of source material and an index to names.
Author: J. Friesen Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1403982236 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 279
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The Palgrave Companion to North American Utopias is a fascinating virtual catalogue of utopian societies and communes from past to present. The authors assert that the formation of a utopian society is both possible and feasible and give examples of how to create one of our own.
Author: John William Arctander
Author: John William Arctander
Author: Jean Usher
Author: Margaret Poynter
Author: Peter Murray
Author: Brian C. Hosmer
Author: Margaret Poynter
Author: J. F. Bosher
Author: Jean Usher
Author: Francess G. Halpenny
Author: J. Friesen