Dr. Bruce Miller’s new book published



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Through a series of eye-opening essays, Bruce Granville Miller discusses critical issues that contemporary Coast Salish people and communities are currently facing.

Using his own field work on salvage ethnography of a previous generation as well as research from other anthropologists, archaeologists and historians, Miller explores the lives of current-day tribes and bands and how family groups’ roles are shaped by gender and political systems.

Miller examines tribal codes and courts, historical concepts and practices of justice, and the relations between the mainstream populations of British Columbia and Washington and the Coast Salish themselves, including the circumstances of non-recognized tribes among the Coast Salish and world wide, the efforts to use oral traditions and the language of sacredness in court, and in media reporting. Engaging theories of borderlands and globalization, Miller writes that studies of Coast Salish are constrained by the international border as are the people themselves, especially post-9/11.

The Contemporary Coast Salish: Essays by Bruce Granville Miller. Edited by Bruce Granville Miller and Darby C. Stapp. Memoir 12, Journal of Northwest Anthropology, Richland, WA.

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