| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.3

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Book Review

Reserve Memories: The Power of the Past in a Chilcotin Community. By David W. Dinwoodie. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. xiv + 118 pp. Map, tables, bibliography, index. $29.95, £30.50.)

This small but dense book is a welcome addition to ethnohistorical studies of Canadian First Nations and to the theory and methodology of both linguistic anthropology and ethnohistory. The Nemiah Valley Chilcotin are a small, relatively dispersed First Nation band residing in central British Columbia. Lacking the obvious features of many anthropologically-studied Native communities, such as a large reservation or a main village, people tend to be mobile, the legacy of both hunting-gathering and ranching traditions, the notion of Nemiah Valley Chilcotin identity is more fluid, but nevertheless real. Discourse-based categories such as "Indians around here" often take the place of more for mal designations (p. 56). Moreover, questions of identity are moral, as much as they are linguistic, political, or genealogical. Thus, in one narrative, a white man is given a Chilcotin funeral because he lived and died like an Indian, giving away all his food.

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