British Columbia, Salish, Salish -- British Columbia, Indigenous peoples -- North America, Salish worldview, Salish -- Social life and customs, Spirit dance, Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Treaties, Treaties, Indigenous land transfers 

"Study of the effect of contact with "white" society on a northwest coast Indian band." -- Worldcat.org 

xi, 224 pages ; 24 cm. 

The setting, the problem and the approach : Location and terrain ; Kinship system ; Social organization and status ; Spirit power ; Spirit dancing ; Other uses of the supernatural ; Life after death ; the cycle of life --
Enter the white man : The first fifty years ; Introduction to 1954 --
Settlement pattern and social organization, 1954 : Overview of the reserve ; Settlement pattern of village I ; Band unity ; Beyond the reserve ; In the town --
Three households : The old Indian ways : Paul Harry family ; Between the old and the new: Bill Gordon household ; New ways: Fred Wilson family --
Family and community life : The crowded, cluttered household ; The women of the house: persistence of old roles ; Marriages ; Lives of men : the cycle of poverty and dependence ; The search for status ; Young people: old way or new? ; The children and their challenge --
The new way: implications, recommendations, predictions --
Epilogue: Summer 1968.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.