Indigenous Oral History and Settlement Archaeology in Barkley Sound, Western Vancouver Island

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dc.contributor.authorMcKechnie, Iain
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-19T19:58:16Z
dc.date.available2021-01-19T19:58:16Z
dc.date.copyright2015en_US
dc.date.issued2015
dc.descriptionFinal published version with publisher permission - OA on archives.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis article examines Nuu-chah-nulth oral histories in an archipelago on the exposed west coast of Vancouver Island, as well as the place names embedded within them, to evaluate Indigenous timelines of sequential and overlapping historical events alongside archaeological sequences of settlement. I specifically compare these distinct datasets in order to evaluate the ages of occupation in settlements in close proximity to each other as well as temporal trends within these large settlements. I observe oral historical sequences and the archaeological settlement chronology to show overlapping and complementary patterns that document the growth, expansion, and dynamically shifting residence patterns at multiple village sites over the past twenty-five hundred years. I argue that this comparison adds historical detail and an Indigenous perspective to an archaeological settlement history at an intergenerational scale and enriches interpretations of the relationships between spatially associated archaeological sites within a contact-era Nuu-chah-nulth local group territory along the outer coast of British Columbia.en_US
dc.description.reviewstatusRevieweden_US
dc.description.scholarlevelFacultyen_US
dc.identifier.citationMcKechnie, Iain (2015) Indigenous Oral History and Settlement Archaeology in Barkley Sound, Western Vancouver Island. BC Studies (187):191–225.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0005-2949
dc.identifier.uriojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/bcstudies/article/download/186162/185705
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.14288/bcs.v0i187.186162
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/12572
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherBC Studiesen_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Canada*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/*
dc.subjectoral historyen_US
dc.subjectArchaeologyen_US
dc.subjectPlacenamesen_US
dc.subjectNorthwest Coasten_US
dc.subjectIndigenous knowledgeen_US
dc.subjectcoastal archaeologyen_US
dc.subjectshell middenen_US
dc.subjectNuu-chah-nulthen_US
dc.titleIndigenous Oral History and Settlement Archaeology in Barkley Sound, Western Vancouver Islanden_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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