Title: Islands of truth
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.
Subjects: History, Historiography, Indians of North America, Discovery and exploration, Vancouver island (b.c.), history, Découverte et exploration, Histoire, Indiens, Historiographie, Native peoples
Places: Vancouver Island (B.C.), British Columbia, Vancouver Island