Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Note on Authorship

Fraser Canyon Histories: Introduction

1 Spuzzum

2 Song for Simon Fraser, Song for Mount Baker: Strangers in the Land

3 Land and Cosmos in a Shifting Economy

4 Nlaka'pamux Thought and the Christian Church

5 Families, Identities, and a War Widow's Pension

6 Chiefs and Land

7 A Pause in the Story

8 Postscript: Approaching the Past

Bibliography

Appendix: Place Names

Glossary

Index

About the Author

Andrea Laforet is director of the Canadian Ethnology Service at the Canadian Museum of Civilization. Annie York (1904-91) was born in Spuzzum and lived there most of her adult life.

Reviews

This book stands as part of an ongoing awareness of Native cultural persistence, alongside a long history of adaptation to the Euro-Canadian economy and society.
*Western Historical Quarterly*

A sympathetic re-creation of the native side of that history. This is a model ethnohistory and a superb commentary on the complexities of being both historian and anthropologist ... This finely crafted book boasts good maps, numerous illustrations ...
*Choice*

This text is lucid and jargon-free, and the photographs interesting and well placed ... Spuzzum will certainly be of interest to anthropologists, local historians, and specialists who have been following the debate on the writing of Native history.
*Canadian Book Review Annual 4163*