This accessible biography chronicles the career and adventures of James
Teit, a 19th- and 20th-century anthropologist, ethnographer, ethnobotanist, and Indian rights activist who worked closely with indigenous people in British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest to preserve living indigenous cultures.
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Teit: The Salishan Tribes of the Western Plateaus.
Teit and the Challenge of Ethnography in the Boasian Era," in With Good Intentions: Euro-Canadian and Aboriginal Relations in Colonial Canada, ed.
Early in the 20th century, Canadian ethnographer James
Teit made field trips to northern British Columbia to work among the Tahltan people on behalf of the Anthropology Division of the Geological Survey of Canada.
Teit's understanding of the current native issues of the day and Franz Boas's mission to save a disappearing cultural past.
New glazing has also been skilfully installed throughout, working with Dissing and Weitling, Jacobsen's original design partner
Teit Weylandt, and the Jacobsen Foundation.
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In Memoirs of the American Museum of Natuaral History, James
Teit recounts a Shuswap menstruation myth:
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Teit. Foreign Trade in Intermediate Goods, Kolding, Denmark: University of Southern Denmark, 2000.
However, according to [early ethnographer] James
Teit, the use of carved objects was beginning to become part of the culture of the most westerly Shuswap people.