These mysterious people : shaping history and archaeology in a Northwest Coast community

Roy, Susan 1963- (author.).

Summary: "Archaeologists studying human remains and burial sites of North America's Indigenous peoples have discovered more than information about the beliefs and practices of cultures--they have also found controversy. These Mysterious People shows how Western ideas and attitudes about Indigenous peoples have transformed one culture's ancestors, burial grounds, and possessions into another culture's "specimens," "archaeological sites," and "ethnographic artifacts," in the process disassociating Natives from their own histories."--

Record details

ISBN: 9780773547100
ISBN: 077354710X
ISBN: 9780773598935
ISBN: 0773598936
Physical Description: print
xxv, 218 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: Montreal ; McGill-Queen's University Press, [2016]
Copyright: ©2016

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-207) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction: the travels of qeysca:m -- 1. "Who were these mysterious people?" -- 2. Burial grounds as sites of archaeology: Harlin I. Smith and the Jesup North Pacific Expedition -- 3. Musqueam house posts and the construction of the "ethnographic" object -- 4. The national colonial culture and the politics of removal and reburial -- 5. The Great Fraser Midden and the civic colonial culture -- 6. From colonial culture to reclamation culture: the Musqueam, Charles E. Borden, and salvage archaeology in British Columbia -- 7. Conclusion.
Additional Physical Form available Note:	Also issued in electronic format.