Lexington Books
Pages: 234
Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-66691-582-2 • Hardback • January 2025 • $110.00 • (£85.00)
978-1-66691-583-9 • eBook • December 2024 • $50.00 • (£38.00) (coming soon)
James M. Hundley is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Rowan University.
List of Figures
Prologue
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: Histories of the Salish Sea
Chapter Two: Paddles Up: Cultural Reprisal and Tribal Journeys
Chapter Three: Transnational Political Organization and the Coast Salish Gathering
Chapter Four: The Thin Green Line: Environmental Movements across the Border
Conclusion
Appendix 1: Ten Rules of the Canoe
Appendix 2: International Treaty to Protect the Salish Sea
Appendix 3: Section 35, Canadian Constitution Act 1982
References
Index
About the Author
James M. Hundley’s We are Coast Salish is both timely and timeless. It masterfully draws together the historical, political, and spiritual experiences of an Indigenous people whose traditional lands were bisected by the international border. From the days of raiding to migrant labor, to the summer war canoe races and winter dance ceremonies; the transborder experience of the Coast Salish underwent upheaval in the post-9/11 world. Hundley shows how the Coast Salish coped with this new reality by creating new renditions of tradition, such as the annual Canoe Journey, the emergence of a Coast Salish identity, and the transborder reaction to Desautel. This book will stand as an important contribution to Coast Salish studies.
— Daniel L. Boxberger, Western Washington University
We Are the Coast Salish is an exhilarating ethnography of Indigenous people whose lives at and across the Canada-USA border have been transformed by the security measures put in place by both countries after 9/11. The Coast Salish canoe journey at the heart of this innovative analysis serves too as a journey of discovery for both the author and his readers. This is a wonderful contribution to the anthropology of environmental, political and cultural borderlands.
— Thomas M. Wilson, Binghamton University, State University of New York