British Columbia: The Battle At Maple Bay: The Dynamics Of Coast Salish Political Organization ...

British Columbia: The Battle At Maple Bay: The Dynamics Of Coast Salish Political Organization Through Oral Histories Bill Angelbeck, and Eric McLay, 2011   In the mid-nineteenth century, an alliance of Coast Salish groups engaged in a maritime canoe battle against the Kwakwaka'wakw Lekwiltok at Maple Bay on Vancouver Island in the Pacific Northwest Coast. This study reflects on the multivocality of twenty-one Coast Salish accounts of the historic battle to consider how independent groups...

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