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    A Decade of Change: Origins of the Nishga And Tsimshian Land Protests in the 1880s
    (University of Toronto Press, 1983) Patterson II, E Palmer
    The decade of the 1880s was one of ferment and change for the Nishga. Internal and external factors operated. The allotment of reserves, the coming of Indian administration, the changing role of the missionary, the conflict within the missionary community — all of these were felt and reacted to by the Nishga. Rivalries between Nishga and Tsimshian and among the Nishga contributed to the sharpened awareness of changes regarding the land. The threat to the land was keenly felt and became the public issue. It retained that position for the next one hundred years, with intermittent periods of greater or lesser intensity.
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    Arthur E. O'Meara, Friend of the Indians
    (University of Washington Press, 1967) Patterson II, E Palmer
    THE COMPLETION of the transcontinental railroad to Vancouver in 1886 brought new waves of settlers to the west coast of Canada. The Indians of coastal British Columbia, already concerned about earlier encroachments upon their lands by the whites, had good reason to fear that they would soon be displaced by the newcomers. For, unlike other parts of Canada, much of the land in British Columbia had passed out of Indian hands without legal alienation.
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    Kincolith, B.C.: Leadership Continuity in a Native Christian Village, 1867-1887
    (Canadian Journal of Anthropology, 1982) Patterson II, E Palmer
    Through an adaptive strategy which began with an invitation to Anglican missionaries and extended through accepting Christianity, serving on the village "missionary council," and holding elected office under the Indian Advancement Act, traditional chiefs of the Nishga Indians maintained the continuity of their leadership after the founding of the native Christian village of Kincolith, B.C.
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    The Ojibwa: 1640-1840 Two Centuries of Change from Sault Ste. Marie to Coldwater-Narrows
    (University of Waterloo, 2016-09-15) Handy, James Ralph; Patterson II, E Palmer
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