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White Settler Contact and Its Consequences

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Respect and Responsibility in Pacific Coast Indigenous Nations

Part of the book series: Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation ((STHE,volume 13))

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Settlement was disastrous to Indigenous people, who lost about 95% of their population between 1700 and 1900. They also sustained cultural attacks, especially the now-infamous boarding schools that removed children from parents and all too often let them die. The resource base suffered depletion. The famous fisheries have been hard hit, with many populations extirpated and others reduced to a few fish. Species whose populations had been maintained for millennia in spite of heavy and continual pressure were reduced to near-extinction. Today, Indigenous people are increasing and reclaiming their culture, and some reassertion of traditional management is occurring, not least because it succeeds where settler management has failed.

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Anderson, E.N., Pierotti, R. (2022). White Settler Contact and Its Consequences. In: Respect and Responsibility in Pacific Coast Indigenous Nations. Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation, vol 13. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15586-4_7

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