We acknowledge that we live and work on unceded Indigenous territories and we thank the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations for their hospitality.

BC Studies no. 152 Winter 2006-2007

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BC Studies no. 152 Winter 2006-2007

Past Emergent

This issue brings together articles that consider how we understand and represent the past in the present and the significant consequences for Native communities and Native-settler relations.

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In This Issue

Introduction

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By Dianne Newell, Susan Neylan, Susan Roy, and Dorothee Schreiber

The Front

Introduction

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Review

Birthright

By Adele Perry

 

BC Studies no. 152 Winter 2006-2007  pp. 126-8

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“Here Comes the Band!”: Cultural Collaboration, Connective Traditions, and Aboriginal Brass Bands on British Columbia’s North Coast, 1875-1964OJS Link Icon

By Susan Neylan, Melissa Meyer

aboriginal culture
aboriginal people
aboriginal people
music
 

BC Studies no. 152 Winter 2006-2007  pp. 35-66

Contributors

Melissa Meyer, from the Tsimshian Nation, Lax Kw’alaams/Port Simpson, BC, is a University of British Columbia graduate in Fine Arts, a traditional weaver, and a Psychology of Vision trainer. She was still weaving Chilkat and raven’s tail, and doing all the traditional dying herself, when she assisted Susan Neylan with interviews at Lax Kw’alaams/Port Simpson in 2003.

Susan Neylan, a specialist in vernacular Christianity among the Tsimshian of northern British Columbia, is an Associate Professor of History at Wilfrid Laurier University. She holds a doctoral degree in history from the University of British Columbia. Dr. Neylan has published papers in Histoire sociale/Social History, Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, and Historical Papers of the Canadian Society of Church History, and is author of “The Heavens are Changing”: Nineteenth-Century Protestant Missions and Tsimshian Christianity(McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2003).

Dianne Newell is a Professor of History and Director of the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of British Columbia. A specialist in the socio-econmic history of technology, she has published extensively on Canada’s Pacific coast fisheries, including: Tangled Webs of History: Indians and the Law in Canada’s Pacific Coast Fisheries (U. of Toronto Press, 1993). She has published one other collaborative essay with Dorothee Schreiber, “Why Spend a Lot of Time Dwelling on the Past?: Understanding Resistance to Contemporary Salmon Farming in Kwakwaka’wakw Territory,” in Arif Dirlik, ed., Pedagogies of the Global: Knowledge in the Human Interest.

Susan Roy is a PhD candidate in the Interdisciplinary Studies Program at the University of British Columbia. She has worked as a research consultant for the Musqueam Indian Band and other First Nations in British Columbia. She is presently teaching in the First Nations Studies Program at UBC.

Dorothee Schreiber is a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Anthropology at McGill University. Her current research deals with Native-settler conflicts over natural resources, and the colonial administration of Native fisheries.

We acknowledge that we live and work on unceded Indigenous territories and we thank the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations for their hospitality.