Power of Place, the Problem of Time

Keith Thor Carlson is a professor of History at the University of the Fraser Valley where he holds a Tier One Canada Research Chair in Indigenous and Community-Engaged History.

• Table of Contents  Acknowledgements  Forward by Sonny McHalsie  SECTION ONE - INTRODUCTION2Chapter One -- Encountering Lower Fraser River Indigenous Identity and Historical Consciousness39SECTION TWO - THE UNDERPINNINGS OF STÓ:LÕ COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES40Chapter Two -- Economy, Geography, Environment and Historical Identity63Chapter Three - Spiritual Forces of Historical Affiliation90SECTION THREE - MOVEMENTS ACROSS TIME AND SPACE91Chapter Four - From the Great Flood to Smallpox134Chapter Five -- Events, Migrations, and Affiliations in the "Post-contact World" 185SECTION FOUR - RESTRICTED MOVEMENT AND FRACTURES IDENTITY186Chapter Six - Identity in the Emerging Colonial Order217Chapter Seven - Identity in the Face of Missionaries and the Anti-Potlatching Law252SECTION FIVE - EXPANDED MOVEMENT AND THE EMERGENCE OF MODERN 'STÓ:LÕ" COLLECTIVE IDENTITY253Chapter Eight - Reservations for the Queen's Birthday Celebrations, 1864-1876280Chapter Nine - Collective Governance and the Lynching of Louie Sam317SECTION - CONCLUSION318Chapter Ten - Entering the Twentieth Century333MAPS AND FIGURES333NOTES

‘Carlson's work represents an innovative avenue towards the further decolonizing of Aboriginal history, and this, combined with his concern for contemporary Aboriginal political issues, heightens the relevancy of the book and marks his claims as being significant both in and beyond the academy.’ - Madeline Knickerbocker (BC Studies no. 172, winter 2011-2012) ’Keith Carlson offers something unique to readers by showing us how productive ethnohistorical analysis can be to the cross-cultural understanding of Indigenous peoples under colonialism.’ - Susan Neylan (Canadian Journal of History, vol 47 Spring-Summer 2012)