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Recording Their Story: James Teit and the Tahltan.

Publication: American Review of Canadian Studies
Publication Date: 22-MAR-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Recording Their Story: James Teit and the Tahltan.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
Judy Thompson. Recording Their Story: James Teit and the Tahltan. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre; Gatineau, Quebec: Canadian Museum of Civilization; Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007. 207 pp.

In 1884, at the age of nineteen, James Teit emigrated from the Shetland Islands to Spences Bridge, British Columbia, where he took up a range of hunting and guiding jobs, learned several Native languages, became active in representing B.C. Indians politically, and, almost incidentally, built a significant career as one of Canada's fledgling professional ethnographers. At first glance, this is an elegant coffee-table book, featuring biographical memorabilia, photographs of Teit's many consultants in the Tahltan community, and catalogue photos of material objects collected in his groundbreaking work. Judy Thompson's curatorial specialty at the Canadian Museum of Civilization is...

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