This ground-breaking historical atlas presents a superbly researched comprehensive overview of the physical and social history of the traditional territory of the Sto: lo Nation. Sto: lo means "river", and the people take their name from the giant Fraser River that flows through their lands. Using material drawn from the larger Coast Salish region, the atlas covers northwest Washington State and southwest British Columbia, including Metropolitan Vancouver. The 86 full-color maps, most of them double-page spreads, are ...
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This ground-breaking historical atlas presents a superbly researched comprehensive overview of the physical and social history of the traditional territory of the Sto: lo Nation. Sto: lo means "river", and the people take their name from the giant Fraser River that flows through their lands. Using material drawn from the larger Coast Salish region, the atlas covers northwest Washington State and southwest British Columbia, including Metropolitan Vancouver. The 86 full-color maps, most of them double-page spreads, are enhanced by archival photographs and explanatory text. They cover an astonishing range of themes that will be of interest to both a non-Native and Native American audience. The atlas is organized in three sections that deal with themes derived from Sto: lo history, cosmology, and the physical landscape of their homeland. "The Sto: lo World in the Distant Past" includes the journeys of XeXa: Is, the Transformer, geology and soil, archaeological investigation, peopling, and the history of ear migration and settlement. "The Sto: lo World Just as the Last Big Changes Began" includes transportation and communication routes, trade and exchange patterns, ties to territory and nascent Sto: lo nationalism, settlement patterns, house patterns, seasonal migrations, and defensive sites. "Enter the Europeans in the Sto: lo World" includes historic population trends, European exploration, European presence, Indian reserve creation and reduction, urbanization and transportation corridors, forestry, wildlife inventory, threatened and endangered waterways, parks and protected areas, seasonal wind and humidity in the Fraser Canyon, Sto: lo resource and property ownership, satellit Sto: lo place names. There is also a chronology of Sto: lo history.
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Seller's Description:
Very Good+ in Good jacket. 1st printing. Folio cloth. 208pp. Profusely illustrated with maps, vintage photos, drawings, photos, prints, etc. A striking volume loaded with information; visually exciting and informative. Vg+ in a complete dj which, nevertheless, has creases to the front panel. Very scarce no in the 1st printing.
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Illustrated by Perrier, Jan. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 0295980443. "Presents a comprehensive overview of Sto: lo-Coast Salish history. Full colour original maps, artwork and photographs grace the pages of this monumental volume, placing a vast wealth of easily accessible information at the fingertips of general readers and academics alike...[Contains] innovative analyses that will expand the horizons of anyone interested in Native and West Coast history."-dust jacket. xvi, 208 pages. Careful ink underlining and/or marginalia on approximatly twenty pages, otherwise clean, bright, tight and unmarked with very light wear. Dust jacket preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. An attractive example of this treasured reference.; Illustrations; Folio-over 12"-15" tall; A Stlo (Sto: lo) Coast Salish Historical Atlas Native Peoples British Columbia Canada Fraser Valley Region Stalo Indians History Maps Washington State.
