James Teit writing in CJ

Bernard Schulmann bernard at SHAMA.CA
Tue Aug 31 16:19:57 UTC 2004


Are people familiar with who James Teit was and his role in the interior
of BC both as an ethnographer and advocate for aborignal rights?

Bernard

Leanne Riding wrote:

> Hey, this guy Teit is great ... he says the placename of Spuzzum
> was not of CJ origin. It was Spo'zem or ("little flat") in the
> Lower Thompson language. Got me!
>
>
> Teit, James Alexander. _The Thompson Indians of British Columbia_
> Ed. Boas, Franz. American Museum of Natural History. Jesup North
> Pacific Expedition. 1900.
>
> -- Leanne (http://timetemple.com)
>
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