The Burden of History: Colonialism and the Frontier Myth in a Rural Canadian Community mcgill-queens-university-press From catching Adams River sockeye

From catching Adams River sockeye in Johnstone Strait (legal) to pit-lamping herring (illegal)

Salmon gillnetting in the turbulent waters of the Fraser River at the turn of the last century was dangerous

Sheffield’s task is monumental and

Drawing on stories and early accounts from Native people throughout northwestern North America and

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The Burden of History: Colonialism and the Frontier Myth in a Rural Canadian Community mcgill-queens-university-press From catching Adams River sockeyeThis book is an ethnography of the cultural politics of Native non Native relations in a small interior BC city Williams Lake at the height of land claims conflicts and tensions. Furniss analyses contemporary colonial relations in settler societies, arguing that ordinary rural Euro Canadians exercise power in maintaining the subordination of aboriginal people through common sense assumptions and assertions about history, society, and identity, and