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In the late 1700s when European colonizers arrived on the Northwest
Coast, they reported the presence of vigorous, diverse
cultures-Tlingit, Haida, Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl), Nuu-chah-nulth
(Nootka), Coast Salish, and Chinookan-with a population
conservatively estimated at more than 180,000. Just a century later
the population had plummeted to only 35,000-a devastating loss of
Indigenous lives caused by the introduction of diseases brought by
settlers and colonizers. The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence
examines the first century of contact and the effects of introduced
diseases such as smallpox, malaria, measles, and influenza on
Native American population size, structure, interactions, and
viability. Whereas in most parts of the Americas disease transfer
and depopulation occurred early and were poorly documented, the
later date of Euro-American contact in the Pacific Northwest means
that records are relatively complete. Through doctors' records,
ships' logs, diaries, censuses, and Native American oral traditions
and testimonies, Robert Boyd reconstructs the process of disease
transfer and the profound demographic and cultural impact of
specific epidemics. This definitive study of introduced diseases in
the Pacific Northwest illuminates the magnitude of human suffering
and traces connections between these processes and cultural change.
Chinookan peoples have lived on the Lower Columbia River for
millennia. Today they are one of the most significant Native groups
in the Pacific Northwest, although the Chinook Tribe is still
unrecognized by the United States government. In Chinookan Peoples
of the Lower Columbia River, scholars provide a deep and
wide-ranging picture of the landscape and resources of the
Chinookan homeland and the history and culture of a people over
time, from 10,000 years ago to the present. They draw on research
by archaeologists, ethnologists, scientists, and historians,
inspired in part by the discovery of several Chinookan village
sites, particularly Cathlapotle, a village on the Columbia River
floodplain near the Portland-Vancouver metropolitan area. Their
accumulated scholarship, along with contributions by members of the
Chinook and related tribes, provides an introduction to Chinookan
culture and research and is a foundation for future work.
In the late 1700s when European colonizers arrived on the Northwest
Coast, they reported the presence of vigorous, diverse
cultures-Tlingit, Haida, Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl), Nuu-chah-nulth
(Nootka), Coast Salish, and Chinookan-with a population
conservatively estimated at more than 180,000. Just a century later
the population had plummeted to only 35,000-a devastating loss of
Indigenous lives caused by the introduction of diseases brought by
settlers and colonizers. The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence
examines the first century of contact and the effects of introduced
diseases such as smallpox, malaria, measles, and influenza on
Native American population size, structure, interactions, and
viability. Whereas in most parts of the Americas disease transfer
and depopulation occurred early and were poorly documented, the
later date of Euro-American contact in the Pacific Northwest means
that records are relatively complete. Through doctors' records,
ships' logs, diaries, censuses, and Native American oral traditions
and testimonies, Robert Boyd reconstructs the process of disease
transfer and the profound demographic and cultural impact of
specific epidemics. This definitive study of introduced diseases in
the Pacific Northwest illuminates the magnitude of human suffering
and traces connections between these processes and cultural change.
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