That Government Man Tried to Poison All the Klallam Indians
Metanarratives of History and Colonialism on the Central Northwest Coast
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2740787 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Colleen E Boyd (0000-0001-8013-6167, Ball State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 331-354 |
| Publication date | 2006-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnohistory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0014-1801 • E-ISSN: 1527-5477 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00141801-53-2-331 |
| OpenAlex | W2162218846 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 6 |
Stories about the past offer important clues for understanding how people articulate the role of history within different cultural contexts. Coast Salish narratives collected by John P. Harrington concerning early colonial encounters on the Olympic Peninsula reveal indigenous methods for engaging and representing the past. Telling stories about the colonial period enabled Klallam people to frame traumatic cultural ruptures on their own terms. Two brief narratives analyzed here illustrate that such stories are not raw data to be turned into "real" history by Western academics but instead are evidence of a coeval Coast Salish historiography
Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · Ethnohistory · Ethnology · Geography · Historiography · Indigenous · Literature · Narrative · Peninsula · Sociology · American Environmental and Regional History · American History and Culture · Anthropology · Archaeology and Natural History · Ecology · History
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2006 - 2019 (14) |
| Highly cited | No |