Myth and memory : stories of Indigenous-European contact

Lutz, John S. (John Sutton), 1959- (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780774812634 (pbk.)
ISBN: 077481263X (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
vi, 236 p. : maps ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Vancouver : UBC Press, c2007.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: myth understandings; or first contact, over and over again / John Sutton Lutz -- 1. Close encounters of the first kind / J. Edward Chamberlin -- 2. First contact as a spiritual performance: encounters on the North American west coast / Lutz -- 3. Reflections on indigenous history and memory: reconstructing and reconsidering contact / Keith Thor Carlson -- 4. Poking fun: humour and power in Kaska contact narratives / Patrick Moore -- 5. Herbert Spencer, Paul Kane, and the making of "The Chinook" / I.S. Maclaren -- 6. Performing paradox: narrativity and the lost colony of Roanoke / Michael Harkin -- 7. Stories from the margins: toward a more inclusive British Columbia historiography / Wendy Wickwire -- 8. When the white kawau flies / Judith Binney -- 9. The interpreter as contact point: avoiding collisions in Tlingit America / Richard Dauenhauer and Nora M. Dauenhauer.