TY - BOOK AU - Gough,Barry M. TI - Gunboat Frontier: British Maritime Authority and Northwest Coast Indians, 1846-1890 SN - 9780774853996 AV - E78.B9 -- G68 1984eb U1 - 971.1/00497 PY - 1984/// CY - Vancouver PB - University of British Columbia Press KW - Indians of North America -- British Columbia -- History KW - Indians of North America -- Canada -- Government relations KW - British Columbia -- History KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- PART I: Company and Colony -- 1. Dwellers Along the Shore -- 2. Tide of Empire -- 3. "This Miserable Affair -- 4. The Smouldering Volcano -- PART II: Putting Out Fires -- 5. Policy Making -- 6. Of Slaves and Liquor -- 7. Among the Vikings of the North Pacific -- 8. Piracy and Punishment -- 9. Policing the Passage -- 10. The Pulls of Alaska -- PART III: Extending the Frontier -- 11. The "Customary Authority" Under Dominion Auspices -- 12. At Heaven's Command -- 13. New Zones of Influence: Nass, Kimsquit, and Skeena -- 14. Retrospect -- Appendix -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y N2 - Gunboat Frontier presents a different interpretation of Indian-white relations in nineteenth-century British Columbia, focusing on the interaction of West Coast Indians with British law and authority UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3412234 ER -