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Haidas and their copper coppers on Queen Charlotte Islands
Dr Dawson and Haida chief Edenshaw recount early white contact at North Island. Coppers from Chilean markets valued for sound when struck and used in trade with slaves. Edenshaw survives a fatal clash with Zimshians and later shares first encounters with Captain Douglas and Dixon. Work estimates Haidas population 1836–41 at six thousand five hundred ninety three with about thirteen per house.
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Sitka
Ndenshaw
Skidegate
Naase
Edenshaw
Dr. Dawson
Islands
Douglas
Cunia
Eden
Shaw
Dixon
North Island
Queen Charlotte Islands
John Work