Download or read book Return of the Canoe Societies written by Rosemary I. Patterson and published by Rosemary I. Patterson, Ph.D.. This book was released on 2006-02 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Return of the Canoe Society is both a thrilling adventure novel of dugout paddlers making a journey up the rugged coast of B. C. to demonstrate solidarity in Treaty Right negotiations and a Literary History of Land Claim attempts in B. C. by Coastal Tribes since 1874.
Download or read book Return of the Canoe Societies written by Rosemary I. Patterson and published by Rosemary I. Patterson, Ph.D.. This book was released on 2000-03-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Return Of The Canoe Societies tells the story of a group of First Nations paddlers who are on a replication of the Qatuwas voyage by the Canoe Societies in 1993, to demonstrate solidarity for the many remaining land claims under negotiation by the B. C. Treaty Commission. As they attempt to paddle to Bella Bella up the rugged coast of B. C., the paddlers come under physical attack by unknown opponent(s) of the Treaty settlements. First, death threats against the paddlers are received by the Voyage of Solidarity Commitee. Then the Dugout Coordinator, a Heiltsuk man named Nate Archer, mysteriously disappears after being pulled from the water following a overturning of the canoe. He vanishes in a mysterious fishboat that picks him up as he tries to swim to shore to get help for the others. Next, the owner of an old white and grey fishboat attempts to plough through the dugouts as they go in to a stopover point in Chemainus. Nate Archers body is dumped from the fishboat as it leaves. He has been shot in the head. The canoeists change their route to try and evade further attacks but are challenged by further ambushes as they struggle up the B.C. coast. Relevent history is related in the novel by a series of time-travel flashbacks that take the main characters, Rachel McBay, a Heiltsuk young woman who is a graduate Psychology student, her grandmother, Rachel McBay, the Heiltsuk ceremonial chanter, Paul Archer, an activist lawyer, who has replaced Nate Archer, and Nigel Kent, the eccentric English, film documentor hired to record the voyage, on a tour of First Nations history since the arrival of the first English settlers to B. C. They participate in the Potlatch on Village Island in 1921, the sentencing of the forty-five Kwakiutl people to prison in 1922, and their experiences there. Other historical flasbacks include a visit to the residential school system, the Nishgaa chiefs being rebuffed by Premier Smithe in 1887, the McKenna-McBride Royal Commission on Indian Affairs, Deputy Superintendent Duncan Scotts plans for Assimilation, the Nishgaa land claim strategy in 1954, and scenes of the resurgence of the culture in Alert Bay in 1965 and the logging blockage on Meares Island.
Download or read book Return of the Canoe Societies written by On Demand Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Return of the Canoe Society is both a thrilling adventure novel of dugout paddlers making a journey up the rugged coast of B. C. to demonstrate solidarity in Treaty Right negotiations and a Literary History of Land Claim attempts in B. C. by Coastal Tribes since 1874.
Download or read book Travels in a Stone Canoe written by Harvey Arden and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1998 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a stunning narration of reflection, revelation, and epiphany, the authors of "Wisdomkeepers" take readers on a dramatic and mystical "spirit-journey" into the living wisdom of Native America's spiritual elders. 40 photos.
Download or read book The History of Melanesian Society written by William Halse Rivers Rivers and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Around the World in a Dugout Canoe written by John M. MacFarlane and published by Harbour Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-28 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anticipating fame and wealth, Captain John Voss set out from Victoria, BC, in 1901, seeking to claim the world record for the smallest vessel ever to circumnavigate the globe. For the journey, he procured an authentic dugout cedar canoe from an Indigenous village on the east coast of Vancouver Island. For three years Voss and the Tilikum, aided by a rotating cast of characters, visited Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Brazil and finally England, weathering heavy gales at sea and attracting large crowds of spectators on shore. The austere on-board conditions and simple navigational equipment Voss used throughout the voyage are a testimony to his skill and to the solid construction of the Nuu-Chah-Nulth vessel. Both Voss and his original mate, newspaperman N.K. Luxton, later wrote about their journey in accounts compromised by poor memories, brazen egos and outright lies. Stories of murder, cannibalism and high-seas terror have been repeated elsewhere without any regard to the truth. Now, over a century later, a full and fair account of the voyage—and the magnitude of Voss’s accomplishment—is at last fully detailed. In this groundbreaking work, marine historians John MacFarlane and Lynn Salmon sift fact from fiction, critically examining the claims of Voss’s and Luxton’s manuscripts against research from libraries, archives, museums and primary sources around the world. Including unpublished photographs, letters and ephemera from the voyage, Around the World in a Dugout Canoe tells the real story of a little-understood character and his cedar canoe. It is an enduring story of courage, adventure, sheer luck and at times tragedy.
Download or read book Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Social Organization and the Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians written by Franz Boas and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings Royal Geographical Society of Australasia South Australian Branch written by Royal Geographical Society of Australasia. South Australian Branch and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia South Australian Branch Incorporated written by Royal Geographical Society of Australasia. South Australian Branch and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Tree and the Canoe written by Joël Bonnemaison and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This personal observation of Tanna, an island in the southern part of the Vanuatu archipelago, presents an extraordinary case study of cultural resistance. Based on interviews, myths and stories collected in the field, and archival research, The Tree and the Canoe analyzes the resilience of the people of Tanna, who, when faced with an intense form of cultural contact that threatened to engulf them, liberated themselves by re-creating, and sometimes reinventing, their own kastom. Following a lengthy history of Tanna from European contact, the author discusses in detail original creation myths and how Tanna people revived them in response to changes brought by missionaries and foreign governments. The final chapters of the book deal with the violent opposition of part of the island population to the newly established National Unity government.
Download or read book The Journal of the Royal Geographic Society of London written by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes list of members.
Download or read book The Publications of the Champlain Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Metlakahtla and the North Pacific Mission of the Church Missionary Society written by Eugene Stock and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Metlakahtla and the North Pacific Mission of the Church Missionary Society" by Eugene Stock Metlakatla is a census-designated place on Annette Island in the Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area, Alaska, United States. This book takes readers to this remote region by explaining the mission trips conducted in the hopes of converting the indigenous population to Christianity. The prep work and travels involved in this journey are described in detail to show the, at times, inhospitable environment missionaries traveled through on their expedition.
Download or read book Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Journal of the Polynesian Society written by Polynesian Society (N.Z.) and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1892-1941 contain the transactions and proceedings of the society.
