Movement, Power and Place: The Biography of a Wagon Road in a Contested First Nations Landscape

• Published in: Cambridge Archaeological Journal
• Main Author: Gibson, Erin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2015
• Subjects: Archeology; Cultural Studies; Canada; British Columbia; Fraser River; First Nations
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959774314000791; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0959774314000791

This paper explores the biography of a wagon road located in the First Nations (indigenous) territory of the Stl'atl'imx of the lower Lillooet River Valley in southern British Columbia, Canada. While the road is best known as a route to the Fraser Canyon during the Fraser River Gold Rush o...