The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence: Introduced Infectious Diseases and Population Decline among Northwest Coast Indians, 1774-1874 - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Washington PressISBN-13:9780295749181ISBN-10:295749180UPC:9780295749181Book Category:History, Medical, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Indigenous, Epidemiology, Native American StudiesSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.3514Product ID:SCYWGTBM5J
The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence: Introduced Infectious Diseases and Population Decline among Northwest Coast Indians, 1774-1874
Examines imported diseases and their impact on Pacific Northwest Indigenous peoples
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 late...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Washington PressISBN-13:9780295749181ISBN-10:295749180UPC:9780295749181Book Category:History, Medical, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Indigenous, Epidemiology, Native American StudiesSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.3514Product ID:SCYWGTBM5J
Robert T. Boyd is a research anthropologist at Portland State University and coeditor of Chinookan Peoples of the Lower Columbia.
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