Indigenous Legal and Political Orders

Thom, Brian (2022) Encountering Indigenous Legal Orders in Canada. Invited contribution to Oxford Handbook of Law and Anthropology. Marie-Claire Foblets, editor. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198840534.013.15 OR [Open Access Version]

Sarah Morales and Brian Thom (2020) The Principle of Sharing and the Shadow of Canadian Property Law. Pp. 120-162 in Creating Indigenous Property: Power, Rights, and Relationships, edited by Angela Cameron, Sari Graben, and Val Napoleon. Toronto, University of Toronto Press. https://dx.doi.org/10.3138/9781487532116-005

Thom, Brian (2017) Entanglements in Coast Salish Ancestral Territories. In Entangled Territorialities: Negotiating Indigenous Lands in Australia and Canada, edited by Françoise Dussart & Sylvie Poirier. Pp. 140-162. Anthropological Horizons Series, University of Toronto Press, Toronto. https://utorontopress.com/ca/entangled-territorialities-2 OR https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487513764-008 OR https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctv1n35998.10

Thom, Brian (2010) The Anathema of Aggregation: Towards 21st Century Self-Government in the Coast Salish World. Anthropologica. 52(1):33-48. https://cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/anthropologica/article/view/1272 OR http://www.jstor.org/stable/29545993

McLay, Eric, Kelly Bannister, Lea Joe, Brian Thom, and George Nicholas (2008) ‘A’lhut tu tet Sul’hweentst [Respecting the Ancestors]: Understanding Hul’qumi’num Heritage Laws and Concerns for the Protection of Archaeological Heritage. In First Nations Cultural Heritage and Law: Case Studies, Voices and Perspectives, edited by Catherine Bell and Val Napoleon, pp.150-202. Vancouver: UBC Press. https://www.deslibris.ca/ID/422121 OR https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.ezproxy.library.uvic.ca/lib/uvic/detail.action?docID=3265397 OR https://canadacommons.ca/artifacts/1870427/first-nations-cultural-heritage-and-law/2619591/read/ [Open Access Preliminary Version]

Thom, Brian (2005) Coast Salish Land Tenure. In Coast Salish Senses of Place, Doctoral Dissertation, McGill University. [PDF] [Open Access]

Thom, Brian (2005) Coast Salish Territories. In Coast Salish Senses of Place, Doctoral Dissertation, McGill University. [PDF] [Open Access]

Coast Salish Senses of Place

Thom, Brian (2005) Coast Salish Senses of Place: Dwelling, Meaning, Power, Property and Territory in the Coast Salish World. Doctoral Dissertation. 473 pgs. https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/concern/theses/vm40xs07v

• The Island Hul'qumi'num Coast Salish People in the 21st Century [PDF] [Open Access]

• Spirit Power Emplaced: Stories, Forested Places, Stl'eluqum Places, and Powerful Rocks [PDF] [Open Access]

• Indian Names and Place Names [PDF] [Open Access]

Thom, Brian (2006) Place, personhood and claims in the contemporary Coast Salish world. Paper presented at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Anthropology Society Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, May 9-14, 2006 http://www.web.uvic.ca/~bthom1/Media/pdfs/ethnography/2006_CASCA_paper.pdf [Open Access]

Thom, Brian (2004) Le sens du lieu et les revendications territoriales contemporaines des Salishs de la Côte. Recherches Amérindiennes au Québec, 34(3):59-74. http://search.proquest.com/docview/1697485111 [libre accès] [English Version]

The Transformer and First Ancestors

Thom, Brian (2005) Myth, First Ancestors, and The Transformer. In Coast Salish Senses of Place. Doctoral Dissertation, McGill University [PDF] [Open Access]

Thom, Brian (1998) Coast Salish Transformation Stories: Kinship, Place And Aboriginal Rights And Title in Canada. Paper Presented at the Annual Meetings of the Canadian Anthropology Society, Toronto. http://www.web.uvic.ca/~bthom1/Media/pdfs/ethnography/transform.htm [PDF] [Open Access]

Thom, Brian (19997) Sxwoxwiyám Xéyt te Xwélmexw (Central Coast Salish Transformation Stories): Connecting Humans and Non-humans through Kinship and Place. Draft working paper. http://www.web.uvic.ca/~bthom1/Media/pdfs/ethnography/sagen.htm [Open Access]

Coast Salish Oral Traditions and Histories

Thom, Brian (2005) Local Histories of Land Alienation and Coast Salish Resistance. In Coast Salish Senses of Place, Doctoral Dissertation, McGill U. [PDF] [Open Access]

Thom, Brian (2003) The Anthropology of Northwest Coast Oral Traditions. Arctic Anthropology. 40(1):1-28. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40316573 [Open Access] [HTML]

Thom, Brian (1995) Ethnographic Overview of Stó:lō People and the Traditional Use of the Hudson's Bay Company Brigade Trail Area. Prepared for: Chilliwack Forest District, Ministry of Forests, Chilliwack. http://www.web.uvic.ca/~bthom1/Media/pdfs/ethnography/trail-hbc.htm [Open Access]

Thom, Brian (1994) Narratives of Leadership: Oral History and the (Re)production of Tradition. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Anthropology Society, Vancouver. http://www.web.uvic.ca/~bthom1/Media/pdfs/ethnography/casca.htm [Open Access]

Thom, Brian (1994) Telling Stories: the Life of Chief Richard Malloway. Research Report Prepared for: Stó:lō Tribal Council, Chilliwack. http://www.web.uvic.ca/~bthom1/Media/pdfs/ethnography/tell-stories.htm[Open Access]

School Curriculum

Commemorating Ye'yumnuts

A major collaboration I have led between Cowichan Tribes, UVic Anthropology and School District 79 to provide curriculum resources for place-based learning about a remarkable ancestral sites in the Cowichan Valley www.yeyumnuts.ca