EDUC 423/457 Indigenous and Western Science

We have a print copy but this one is an ebook!

Before We Lost the Lake examines the lake's natural history and ecology, its occupation and use by the Sema:th and other First Nations, its colonization by White immigrants, the environmental changes brought about by introduced plants and animals, and the campaign to drain it.

Also in print!

British Columbia's Sumas Lake was drained in the 1920s to create farmlands in the Fraser Valley. This event is the subject of Laura Cameron's Openings, a multifaceted exploration of the complex relationship between place and history. On one level it is a history of a lake and its "reclamation" as seen from the perspectives of various groups - Native people, bureaucrats, families, farmers. On another it is an innovative meditation on the historian's craft, locating the past not only in the fluid process of making oral history and the creative transformation of archival documents but also in the bonds people forge between stories and the places around them.