Indian life on the Northwest coast of North America : as seen by the early explorers and fur traders during the last decades of the eighteenth century.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gunther, Erna, 1896-1982
Corporate Author:	American Council of Learned Societies
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1972.
Series:	ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Subjects:	Indians of North America > Northwest Coast of North America. Indians of North America North America > Northwest Coast of North America
Online Access:	Click for online access

Table of Contents:

Cover
Half-title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Illustration's
Preface
Introduction
1. The Russians Seek the ""Great Land"" and Thereby Arouse the Spaniards to Reconsider the Northern Boundary of ""Alta California
2. Captain Cook's Third Voyage to the Pacific Ocean Arrives at Nootka Sound
3. The Challenge of the Coast South of Nootka: The Strait of Juan de Fuca and the Columbia River
4. The Inside Passage, Where the Spaniards in the Sutil and the Mexicana Proceed More Slowly and Vancouver Hastens to Establish the Insularity of Vancouver Island
5. The Haida, the Shrewdest of Traders, Who Set the Style for Demands for Trade Goods
6. The Aggressive Tlingit, Who Discouraged Vancouver's Surveying and Stood off the Russians for Half a Decade
7. The Northernmost Reaches, with the Chugach of Prince William Sound, the Athapascans of Cook Inlet, and the Aleut and Russians at Unalaska
Appendix 1. Eighteenth-Century Objects in European Museums
Appendix 2. Technological Processes of the Eighteenth Century
Bibliography
Index

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