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• Physical Description: xi, 224 pages ; 24 cm.
• Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1970.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The setting, the problem and the approach : Location and terrain ; Kinship system ; Social organization adn status ; Spirit power ; Spirit dancing ; Other uses of the supernatural ; Life after death ; the cycle of life -- Enter the white man : The first fifty years ; Introduction to 1954 -- Settlement pattern and social organization, 1954 : Overview of the reserve ; Settlement pattern of village I ; Band unity ; Beyond the reserve ; In the town -- Three households : The old indian ways : Paul Harry family ; Between teh old and the new: Bill Gordon household ; New ways: Fred Wilson family -- Family and community life : The crowded, cluttered household ; The women of the house: persistence of old roles ; Marriages ; Lives of men : the cycle of poverty and dependence ; The search for status ; Young people: old way or new? ; The children and their challenge -- The new way: impluications, recommendations, predictions -- Epilogue: Summer 1968.

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Salish Indians.
Indians of North America > British Columbia.