What we are reading

In preparation for venturing into field, it will be very useful (but not required) to delve into SOME:) of the publications about Nuu-chah-nulth archaeology in Barkley Sound. Below is a selection of the books, articles, and chapters that we will be referring to in our course. There is also a list of ‘additional reading’ representing some of the graduate student research conducted on western Vancouver Island. There won’t ever be enough time to read this all but we will make much more time for reading in the 2nd half. Think of this as recommended reading that will enrich your time in the field.

  

Books

McMillan, Alan D. (1999) Since the Time of the Transformers: The Ancient Heritage of the Nuu-chah-nulth, Ditidaht, and Makah. UBC Press, Vancouver.

McMillan, Alan D., and Denis E. St. Claire (2005) Ts’ishaa: Archaeology and Ethnohistory of a Nuu-chah-nulth Origin Site in Barkley Sound. Archaeology Press, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby.

McMillan, Alan D. and Denis E. St. Claire (2012) Huu7ii: Household Archaeology at a Nuu-chah-nulth Village Site in Barkley Sound. Archaeology Press, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby.

McMillan, Alan D., and Iain McKechnie (editors) 2015. These Outer Shores: Archaeological Insights into Indigenous Lifeways along the Exposed Coasts of British Columbia. BC Studies 187:3–302.

 

Articles (arranged by date)

Hillis, D., R. Gustas, D. Pauly, W. W. L. Cheung, A. K. Salomon, and I. McKechnie. 2022. A Paleothermometer of Ancient Indigenous Fisheries Reveals Increases in Mean Temperature of the Catch Over Five Millennia. Environmental Biology of Fishes.
Gustas, R. H., I. McKechnie, Q. Mackie, and C. T. Darimont. 2022. Estimating Coastal Shell Midden Site Volumes Using Geometric Solids: An Example from Tseshaht Territory, Western Vancouver Island, British Columbia Canada. Advances in Archaeological Practice 10:200–214.
McMillan, Alan D., and Denis E. St. Claire 2021. Monterey Shells and Trade Copper: A Glimpse into the Early Contact Period from a Nuu-Chah-Nulth Outer-Coast Lookout Site. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 45(1):1–19.
Hillis, Dylan, Iain McKechnie, Eric Guiry, Denis E. St. Claire, and Chris T. Darimont 2020. Ancient Dog Diets on the Pacific Northwest Coast: Zooarchaeological and Stable Isotope Modelling Evidence from Tseshaht Territory and Beyond. Scientific Reports 10: 15630.

Duffield, S., McKechnie, I., St. Claire, D.E., McLaren, D., 2020. Vibracore Sampling in the Broken Group Islands. The Midden 5(2):34–37.

McMillan, Alan D. 2019. Non-Human Whalers in Nuu-chah-nulth Art and Ritual: Reappraising Orca in Archaeological Context. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 29(2):309–326.

Rodrigues, Antonia T., Iain McKechnie and Dongya Y. Yang 2018. Ancient DNA analysis of Indigenous rockfish use on the Pacific Coast: Implications for marine conservation areas and fisheries management. PLoS ONE 13(2):e0192716.

McKechnie, Iain 2015. Indigenous Oral History and Settlement Archaeology in Barkley Sound, Western Vancouver Island. BC Studies (187):191–225.

McMillan, Alan D., and Iain McKechnie 2015. Investigating Indigenous Adaptations to British Columbia’s Exposed Outer Coast: Introduction to These Outer Shores. BC Studies (187):3–20.

McMillan, Alan D. 2015. Whales and Whalers in Nuu-chah-nulth Archaeology. BC Studies 187:229–261.

McMillan, Alan D., Iain McKechnie, Denis E. St. Claire, and S. Gay Frederick 2008. Exploring Variability in Maritime Resource Use on the Northwest Coast: A Case Study from Barkley Sound, Western Vancouver Island. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 32:214–238.

Ludwin, Ruth S., Robert Dennis, Deborah Carver, Alan D. McMillan, Robert Losey, John Clague, Chris Jonientz-Trisler, Janine Bowechop, Jacilee Wray and Karen James 2005. Dating the 1700 Cascadia Earthquake: Great Coastal Earthquakes in Native Stories. Seismological Research Letters 76(2):140–148.

Monks, Gregory G., Alan D. McMillan, & Denis St. Claire. 2001. Nuu-chah-nulth Whaling: Archaeological Insights into Antiquity, Species Preferences, and Cultural Importance. Arctic Anthropology 38:60-81.

Book Chapters

Huu-ay-aht First Nations (2000). Kiix?in Agenda Paper. In Nuu-chah-Nulth Voices, Histories, Objects and Journeys, edited by A. L. Hoover, pp. 33–65. Royal British Columbia Museum, Victoria.

Mackie, Q., D. W. Fedje, D. McLaren, N. F. Smith, and I. McKechnie. (2011). Early Environments and Archaeology of Coastal British Columbia. Pages 51–103 in N. F. Bicho, J. A. Haws, and L. G. Davis, editors. Trekking the Shore: Changing Coastlines and the Antiquity of Coastal Settlement. Springer, New York.

Mackie, A.P. and L. Williamson 2003. Nuu-chah-nulth Houses: Structural Remains and Cultural Depressions on Southwest Vancouver Island. In Emerging from the Mist: Studies in Northwest Coast Culture History, edited by R. G. Matson, G. Coupland & Q. Mackie, pp. 105–151. UBC Press, Vancouver.

McKechnie, Iain 2012. Zooarchaeological Analysis of the Indigenous Fishery at the Huu7ii Big House and Back Terrace, Huu-ay-aht Territory, Southwestern Vancouver Island. Pages 154–186 In A.D. McMillan and D. St. Claire, editors. Huu7ii: Household Archaeology at a Nuu-chah-nulth Village Site in Barkley Sound. Archaeology Press, Burnaby.

McKechnie, Iain and Rebecca J. Wigen (2011) Toward a Historical Ecology of Pinniped and Sea Otter Hunting Traditions on the Coast of Southern British Columbia. In Human Impacts on Seals, Sea Lions, and Sea Otters: Integrating Archaeology and Ecology in the Northeast Pacific, edited by T. J. Braje and T. C. Rick, pp. 129–166. University of California Press, Berkeley.

McMillan, Alan D. (2009) A Tale of Two Ethnographies: The Contributions of Edward Sapir and Philip Drucker to Nuu-chah-nulth Archaeology. In Painting the Past with a Broad Brush: Papers in Honour of James Valliere Wright, edited by D. L. Keenlyside and J.-L. Pilon, pp. 617–646. Mercury Series—Archaeology Paper. vol. 170. Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau.

Monks, Gregory G. (2017) Evidence of Changing Climate and Subsistence Strategies Among the Nuu-chah-nulth of Canada’s West Coast. In Climate Change and Human Responses: A Zooarchaeological Perspective, edited by Gregory G. Monks, pp. 173–196. Springer, Dordrecht.

Monks, Gregory G. (2017) Zooarchaeology of the pre-Contact Northwest coast of North America. In The Oxford Handbook of Zooarchaeology, edited by Umberto Albarella, Mauro Rizzetto, Hannah Russ, Kim Vickers, and Sarah Viner-Daniels, pp. 495–508. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Monks, Gregory G. (2011) Locational Optimization and Faunal Remains in Northern Barkley Sound, Western Vancouver Island, British Columbia. In The Archaeology of North Pacific Fisheries, edited by M. L. Moss and A. Cannon, pp. 129–148. University of Alaska Press, Fairbanks.

Monks, Gregory G. (2003) The Cultural Taphonomy of Nuu-chah-nulth Whale Bone Assemblages. Pages 188–212 in R. G. Matson, G. Coupland, & Q. Mackie, editors. Emerging from the Mist: Studies in Northwest Coast Culture History. UBC Press, Vancouver.

St. Claire, Denis E. (1991) Barkley Sound Tribal Territories. Pages 13–202 in Eugene Y. Arima, Denis E. St. Claire, L. Clamhouse, J. Edgar, C. Jones, and J. Thomas, editors. Between Ports Alberni and Renfrew: Notes on West Coast Peoples. Canadian Ethnology Service, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Ottawa.

ADDITIONAL READING 

Masters Theses

Earle, Heather (2020) Assessing late Holocene variability in sea otter prevalence in two areas of coastal British Columbia using archaeological and isotopic data. MRM Thesis, School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby.

Earnshaw, Jacob T. K. (2016) Cultural forests of the Southern Nuu-chah-nulth: historical ecology and salvage archaeology on Vancouver Island’s West Coast. MA Thesis, University of Victoria.

Gray, Brendan (2008) Sampling Methods in Northwest Coast Household Archaeology: A Simulation Approach Using Faunal Data from the Ozette Site. MA Thesis, University of Victoria.

Helweg-Larsen, Kelda Jane (2017) ČaɁak (Islands): How Place-based Indigenous Perspectives Can Inform National Park ‘Visitor Experience’ Programming in Nuu-chah-nulth Traditional Territory. MA Thesis, University of Victoria.

King, Shannon (2007) What’s the Point?  A Morphological Study of Small Bone Points from Nuu-chah-nulth Territory, Vancouver Island, B.C. MA Thesis, Simon Fraser University.

McKechnie, Iain (2005) Five Thousand Years of Fishing at a Shell Midden in the Broken Group Islands, Barkley Sound, British Columbia. MA Thesis, Simon Fraser University.

MacLean, Kelsey (2012) An Analysis of the Flaked Stone Assemblage from the Hiikwis Site Complex, Barkley Sound, British Columbia. MA Thesis, University of Victoria.

Rahn, Robert Brian (2002) Spatial Analysis of Archaeological Sites in Barkley Sound, Vancouver Island. MA Thesis, University of Manitoba.

Salmen-Hartley, Jacob (2018) Towards a historical ecology of halibut fishing on the Northwest Coast. MA Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria.

Sellers, Ian (2013) A Historic Archaeology of Nuu-chah-nulth Barkley Sound: Material and Economic Change Through the Nineteenth Century. MA Thesis, Simon Fraser University.

Slade, Erin S. (2019) Estimating Historic Sea Otter Prevalence from Archaeological and Contemporary California Mussel Size Structure. MRM Thesis, School of Resource & Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby.

Streeter, Ian (2002) Seasonal Implications of Rockfish Exploitation in the Toquaht Area, B.C. MA Thesis, University of Manitoba.

Wenstob, Stella (2015) Canoes and colony: the dugout canoe as a site of intercultural engagement in the colonial context of British Columbia (1849-1871), MA Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria.

Westre, Nicole J. (2014) Vertebrate Faunal Analysis of the Hiikwis Site Complex (DfSh-15 and DfSh-16) in Barkley Sound, British Columbia. MA Thesis, University of Victoria.

PhD Dissertations

Calvert, S. Gay (1980) A Cultural Analysis of Faunal Remains from Three Archaeological Sites in Hesquiat Harbour, B.C. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of British Columbia.

Happynook, Tommy 2022. wałšiʔałin ʔuuʔaałuk̓i ḥaḥuułi: Coming home to take care of the territory: a project of (re)connecting with traditional lands, waters, knowledge, and identity. PhD Dissertation. University of Victoria, Victoria.

Marshall, Yvonne (1993) A Political History of the Nuu-chah-nulth People: A Case Study of the Mowachaht and Muchalaht Tribes. PhD Dissertation, Simon Fraser University.

Mackie, Quentin (1998) The Archaeology of Fjordland Archipelagos: Mobility Networks, Social Practice, and the Built Environment. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Southampton.

McKechnie, Iain (2014) An Archaeology of Food and Settlement on the Northwest Coast. PhD Dissertation, University of British Columbia.

 

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Websites

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Hakai Institute Blog on Kelp Forests