The Heiltsuks: Dialogues of Culture and History on the Northwest Coast

From: The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology | Date: February 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

MICHAEL E. HARKIN, The Heiltsuks: Dialogues of Culture and History on the Northwest Coast. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997, xiv + 195 p.

As Michael Harkin notes early in his book, the Heiltsuks have played a key role in the culture history of the aboriginal Northwest Coast, and they have an important story of self-directed culture change under difficult circumstances to tell. Nevertheless, they are among the least well known of Northwest Coast peoples. Based on twelve months of field work and extensive archival research, Harkin attempts to remedy this neglect while fashioning "a ...

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