Best Left as Indians: Native-White Relations in the Yukon Territory, 1840-1973 Volume 111

by Kenneth S. Coates

Book Overview

The indigenous population, Coates stresses, has not been passive in the face of expansion by whites. He argues that Native people have played a major role in shaping the history of the region and determining the relationship with the immigrant population. They recognized the conflict between the material and technological advantages of an imposed economic order and the desire to maintain a harvesting existence. While they readily accepted technological...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773511008
• ISBN13: 9780773511002
• Release Date: February 1993
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"