A human history of Tl’chés, 1860-1973
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2020-05-04
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Forest-Hammond, Elise Gabrielle
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This thesis represents a human history of Tl’chés (Discovery and Chatham Islands) roughly between the mid-19th and mid-20th centuries. It presents Songhees and Settler life on the archipelago, as well as the dispossession of Songhees lands. Detailing processes of colonialism, as well as Songhees resistance to it, this thesis represents a microcosm of colonialism as it unfolded in the lands now called British Columbia.
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Tl’chés, Discovery and Chatham Islands, Songhees, Lekwungen, Straits Salish, Colonialism, Reserves, Smallpox, anthropology, ethnohistory, history, oral traditions