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Fri Jun 20 20:36:17 UTC 2008

Klahowya Wawa Tillicums!

I hope some of you may be interested in a book that I have just 
published with UBC Press which uses Chinook Jargon as an entrée into the 
whole history of native-white relations in British Columbia. The book, 
called /Makúk: A New History of Aboriginal-White Relations/ focuses on 
the different kinds of exchange between indigenous and immigrant 
peoples. I attach the preface which may be of the most interest to this 
list - in fact it may sound familiar as it is a version of a 
presentation I gave at the Wawa conference in Victoria a few years ago. 
I have also sprinkled examples of jargon conversations taken from 
dictionaries and correspondence throughout the book. The book and the 
preface have benefited immensely from this community of wawa enthusiasts 
so please accept my thank you to you all.

Dave, as a special thank you for all your work in sustaining this 
community, a copy is in the campus mail for you!

This is the UBC Press ad for the book.

John

<www.ubcpress.ca>

<http://www.ubcpress.ca/>

UBC Press is pleased to announce *Makúk: **A New History of 
Aboriginal-White Relations* by John Sutton Lutz. **

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* <http://www.ubcpress.ca/search/title_book.asp?BookID=4383>*

*Makúk <http://www.ubcpress.ca/search/title_book.asp?BookID=4383>
*A New History of Aboriginal-White Relations

*John Sutton Lutz***

ISBN 9780774811408

Paperback $32.95

UBC Press 2008

**now available for course use* 
<http://www.ubcpress.ca/books/review_copy_order.html>*

*About the Book*

*/ /*

The history of aboriginal-settler interactions in Canada continues to 
haunt the national imagination. Despite billions of dollars spent on the 
"Indian problem," Aboriginal People remain the poorest in the country. 
Because the stereotype of the "lazy Indian" is never far from the 
surface, many Canadians wonder if the problem lay with "Indians" 
themselves.

John Lutz traces Aboriginal People’s involvement in the new economy, and 
their displacement from it, from the arrival of the first Europeans to 
the 1970s. Drawing on an extensive array of oral histories, manuscripts, 
newspaper accounts, biographies, and statistical analysis, Lutz shows 
that Aboriginal people flocked to the workforce and prospered in the 
late nineteenth century. He argues that the roots of today’s widespread 
unemployment and "welfare dependency" date only from the 1950s, when 
deliberate and inadvertent policy choices -- what Lutz terms the "white 
problem" drove Aboriginal People out of the capitalist, wage, and 
subsistence economies, offering them welfare as "compensation."

/Makúk/ invites readers into a dialogue with the past with visual 
imagery and an engaging narrative that gives a voice to Aboriginal 
Peoples and other historical figures. It is a book for students, 
scholars, policymakers, and a wide public who care to bring the spectres 
of the past into the light of the present.

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*About the Authors*

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*John Sutton Lutz* teaches in the Department of History at the 
University of Victoria. He is editor of /Myth and Memory: Stories of 
Indigenous-European Contact/ and co-editor of /Situating Race and 
Racisms in Space, Time, and Theory./

*Contents*

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Maps, Figures, Tables
Preface

1 Introduction: Molasses Stick Legs

2 Pomo Wawa: The Other Jargon

3 Making the Lazy Indian

4 The Lekwungen

5 The Tsilhqot’in

6 Outside History: Labourers of the Aboriginal Province

7 The White Problem

8 Prestige to Welfare: Remaking the Moditional Economy

9 Conclusion: The Outer Edge of Probability, 1970-2007

Postscript: Subordination without Subjugation

Appendices
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Credits
Index

*Also of Interest:*

<http://www.ubcpress.ca/search/title_book.asp?BookID=4546>

*Myth and Memory 
<http://www.ubcpress.ca/search/title_book.asp?BookID=4546>*

Stories of Indigenous-European Contact

*John Sutton Lutz*

<http://www.ubcpress.ca/search/title_book.asp?BookID=5247>

*** <http://www.ubcpress.ca/search/title_book.asp?BookID=5247>** *

Should this book be of interest to you or another member of your faculty 
for course consideration, please complete the secure online exam copy 
request form at http://www.ubcpress.ca/books/review_copy_order.html; *it 
is not necessary to enter a discount code, simply click the ‘Order in 
Canada’ button.* *Your courier address, including phone number is 
required for shipping.*

Should you wish to purchase this title for research/personal use, we are 
pleased to offer a 20% discount. For such purchases, please visit: 
www.ubcpress.ca/campaigns/orderform.pdf 
<http://www.ubcpress.ca/campaigns/orderform.pdf>.

If you would like to discuss the publication of your own manuscript in 
this area, please contact Jean Wilson, Editor at wilson at ubcpress.ca. For 
information about publishing with UBC Press, please visit: 
http://www.ubcpress.ca/company/guidelines.html

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John Lutz
History Department
University of Victoria
PO 3045, Victoria BC
Canada, V8W 3P4

250-721-7392
250-721-8772 FAX

http://web.uvic.ca/~jlutz

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