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Health knowledge and its gatekeepers: exchanges of knowledge between Tsimshian and Euro-Canadian missionaries in nineteenth-century British Columbia

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In nineteenth-century British Columbia, the process of colonization and the attempted elimination of traditional practices impacted greatly on how individuals understood health and medicine. Using the diaries of a Tsimshian man and irregular Indigenous missionary called Arthur Wellington Clah, we can see how health knowledge and disease events impacted the ways Indigenous individuals viewed and interacted with Euro-Canadian missionaries. As Clah navigated the rapidly changing world around him, how he understood health changed in interesting ways. Using the seventy-two volumes of his diary, supplemented by the writings of Euro-Canadian missionaries in the region, we can trace the change over time of the ways in which all of these missionaries, Indigenous and Euro-Canadian alike, saw the world around them. This helps us to better understand the importance of the medical dimension of proselytization and its significance to the wider colonial project.

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