Record details

• ISBN: 0822335352 (cloth : alk. paper)
• ISBN: 9780822335351 (cloth : alk. paper)
• ISBN: 0822335476 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• ISBN: 9780822335474 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• Physical Description: xv,307 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
• Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"A John Hope Franklin Center book."

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references p. ([261]-293) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: authenticity and colonial cosmology -- Local politics and colonial relations : the Kwakwa̲ka̲'wakw at home on the Northwest coast -- "The march of the aborigine to civilization" : live exhibits and the world's Columbian exposition, 1893 -- Theaters of contact : the Kwakwa̲ka̲'wakw at the fair -- Picking, posing, and performing : Puget Sound hop fields and income for aboriginal workers -- Harvest gatherings : aboriginal agendas, economy, and culture -- Indian watchers : colonial imagination and colonial reality -- The inside passage to authenticity : Sitka tourism and the Tlingit -- "The trend is upward" : mission and cottage life -- Civilization on trial : the Davis case -- Conclusion: authenticity's call.

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Subject:

Indians of North America > Northwest, Pacific > Ethnic identity.
Indians of North America > Cultural assimilation > Northwest, Pacific.
Indians, Treatment of > Northwest, Pacific > History > 19th century.
Northwest, Pacific > Race relations.
Northwest, Pacific > History > 19th century.