Islands of truth
Subtitle: the imperial fashioning of Vancouver Island
By: Daniel W. Clayton.
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Vancouver
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
Subjects: Indians of North America -- British Columbia -- Vancouver Island -- History; Vancouver Island (B.C.) -- Discovery and exploration; Vancouver Island (B.C.) -- History; Vancouver Island (B.C.) -- Historiography
Description: "In Islands of Truth Daniel Clayton examines a series of Western encounters with the Native peoples and territory of Vancouver Island in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Although he focuses on a particular region and period, Clayton also meditates on how representations of land and people, and studies of the past, serve and shape specific interests, and how the dawn of Native-Western contact in this part of the world might be studied 200 years later, in the light of ongoing struggles between Natives and non-Natives over land and cultural status."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.