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• ISBN: 9780772649645
• ISBN: 0772649642
• Physical Description: 175 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 27 cm
• Publisher: Victoria : Royal BC Museum, ©2003.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1. Songhees: the Place and the People -- 2. Before European Settlement -- 3. Settlement Among the Songhees -- 4. Life in the 1840s -- 5. Wage Economy and Warfare -- 6. Northern Invasions, 1853-59 -- 7. Aboriginal Title and the Victoria Treaties -- 8. First Attempt to Remove the Songhees, 1858-59 -- 9. Trouble in the Camps, 1860-61 -- 10. The Victoria Small Pox Crisis of 1862 -- 11. The Early Minority Years, 1862-74 -- 12. Potlatches and Winter Dances, 1863-74 -- 13. The Politics of a New Era, 1876-1907 -- 14. Employment, Recreation and School, 1880-1900 -- 15. The Ches-lum George Potlatch of 1895 -- 16. The Last Big Potlatches, 1900-1908 -- 17. The Final Move, 1910-12 -- Appendix: Songhees Traditional World View.

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