The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence: Introduced Infectious Diseases and Population Decline Among Northwest Coast Indians, 1774-1874

by Robert T. Boyd

Book Overview

Examines imported diseases and their impact on Pacific Northwest Indigenous peoples

In the late 1700s when European colonizers arrived on the Northwest Coast, they reported the presence of vigorous, diverse cultures--Tlingit, Haida, Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl), Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka), Coast Salish, and Chinookan--with a population conservatively estimated at more than 180,000. Just a century later the population had plummeted to only...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295978376
• ISBN13: 9780295978376
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 428 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.3"