Book review
“And he knew our language”: Missionary linguistics on the Pacific Northwest Coast. By Marcus Tomalin.
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2011. xvi, 203 pp. ISBN 978-90-272-4607-3 €105.00 $158.00

Reviewed by David Beck
University of Alberta
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Boas, Franz
1889 First General Report on the Indians of British Columbia. British Association for the Advancement of Science, Newcastle-on-Tyne Meeting, Fifth Report of the Committee Appointed for the Purpose of Investigating and Publishing Reports on the Physical Characters, Languages, and Industrial and Social Condition of the North-Western Tribes of the Dominion of Canada. London: The Association.Google Scholar
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