Imaging the Metlakatlas: shifting representations of a northwest coast mission community

• Main Author: Pastor, Monica Leigh
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 1999
• Subjects: Tsimshian Indians > Government relations; Metlakatla (B.C.); Metlakatla (Alaska); Indian; Metlakatla; Tsimshian; Tsimshian*; Alaska
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/9017

Metlakatla, British Columbia, an 'isolated' missionary village, was established in 1862 by William Duncan, an Anglican missionary, and a group of Tsimshian on the Northern Northwest Coast. The village was widely praised for its success in 'civilizing' its group of Northwest Coast...