A Complex Culture of the British Columbia Plateau : Traditional Stl'atl'imx Resource Use.

Intro -- Contents -- Figures, Plates, and Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Ecology and Culture -- 2 Environmental Units -- 3 A Reconstruction of Prehistoric Land Use in the Mid-Fraser River Area Based on Ethnographic Data -- 4 Salmon Availability, Technology, and Cultural Adaptation in the Fraser River Watershed -- 5 Fraser Lillooet Salmon Fishing -- 6 Stl'átl'imx (Fraser River Lillooet) Fishing -- 7 Traditional and Contemporary Land and Resource Use by Ts'kw'ayláxw and Xáxli'p Bands -- 8 Plant Resources of the Stl'átl'imx (Fraser River Lillooet) People: A Window into the Past -- 9 The Cultural Ecology of Hunting and Potlatches among the Lillooet Indians -- 10 Conflict and Salmon on the Interior Plateau of British Columbia -- 11 Conclusions: Ecology and Complex Hunter/Gatherers -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

This volume considers two British Columbia Native communities - the Lillooet and Shuswap communities of Fountain and Pavilion - and traces their development into complex societies.

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