"Wearing the mantle on both shoulders": an examination of the development of cultural change, mutual accommodation, and hybrid forms at Fort Simpson/Laxłgu’alaams, 1834-1862.

• Main Author: Sellers, Marki
• Other Authors: Lutz, John S., Marks, Lynne Sorrel
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Ts'msyen; Tsimshian; Fort Simpson; Lax Kw'alaams; Hudson's Bay Company; fur trade; hybridity; native; aboriginal; indigenous; cultural change; intermarriage; Northwest Coast; Laxłgu’alaams; William McNeill; William Duncan; UVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::History::Canada > History; Canada; McNeill; Metlakatla; Newcomer; Tsimshian*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1828/3182

This thesis studies the relationships between newcomers employed by the Hudson’s Bay Company at Fort Simpson and the Ts’msyen people who came to live outside the fort from its establishment in Ts’msyen territory in 1834 until the founding of a Christian Ts’msyen village at Metlakatla in 1862. I argu...