Feasting on the Aam of Heaven: The Christianization of the Nisga'a, 1860-1920

• Main Author: May, Nicholas
• Other Authors: Greer, Allan, Bohaker, Heidi, History
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Subjects: Nisga'a; Christianization; Aboriginal; Religious Change; British Columbia; Christianity; First Nations; Canada; 0334; Endeavour; Nass River; Pacific
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/68973

The Nisga’a of British Columbia’s rugged Pacific Coast have long forged their spirituality from both a relationship with the supernatural and other beings with whom they share the Nass Valley, and practices and beliefs brought in from abroad. In the latter half of the nineteenth century the Nisga’a...