Myth and Memory

John Sutton Lutz teaches in the Department of History at the University of Victoria and is the author of Makúk: A New History of Aboriginal-White Relations and co-editor, with Jo-anne Lee, of Situating "Race" and Racisms in Space, Time and Theory.Contributors: Judith Binney, Keith Thor Carlson, J. Edward (Ted) Chamberlin, Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Richard Dauenhauer, Michael Harkin, I.S. MacLaren, Patrick Moore, and Wendy Wickwire.

The essays provide a fascinating surf of "first contacts" from New Zealand, England, southern Africa, and the Pacific Northwest, from the eighteenth century to today […]. A plentiful range of new approaches to the genre of the contact narrative distinguishes this impressively interdisciplinary collection, with contributions from historians, anthropologists, linguists, and literary critics. - Sophie McCall (Canadian Literature, No.197) Myth & Memory injects an interesting and crucial "new" narrative into the historical record. - Kelly Chaves (The Northern Mariner, Vol.XIX, No.1) This convincing and solid collection encourages assessment and reassessment of contact narratives. … Ten scholars from various fields, including history, anthropology, linguistics, and literature, engage in this informative work. …Edited by University of Victoria historian John Sutton Lutz, the chapters in Myth and Memory integrate a number of global indigenous perspectives. Lutz's extensive insight regarding native and newcomer relations provides a solid basis for editorial expertise of this compendium. - Corinne George, Simon Fraser University (H-Canada)

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Myth Understandings: First Contact, Over and Over Again / John Lutz1. Close Encounters of the First Kind / J. Edward (Ted) Chamberlin2. First Contact as a Spiritual Performance: Encounters on the North American West Coast / John Lutz3. Reflections on Indigenous History and Memory: Reconstructing and Reconsidering Contact / Keith Carlson4. Poking Fun? Humour and Power in Kaska Contact Narratives / Patrick Moore5. Herbert Spencer, Paul Kane, and the Making of "The Chinook" / I.S. MacLaren6. Performing Paradox: Narrativity and the Lost Colony of Roanoke / Michael Harkin7. Stories at the Margins: Toward a More Inclusive Historiography / Wendy Wickwire8. When the White Kawau Flies / Judith Binney9. The Interpreter as Contact Point: Avoiding Collisions in Tlingit America / Nora and Richard DauenhauerNotesBibliographyContributors