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Cis Dideen Kat (When the Plumes Rise): The Way of the Lake Babine Nation. Jo‐Anne Fiske. with assistance of Betty Patrick. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press, 2000. 272 pp.

Chief Seattle. 2000. 57 minutes, color. video by B. J. Bullert. For more information contact Bullfrog Films, Box 149, Oley, PA 19547; 1‐800‐543‐3764; www.bullfrogfilms.com.

"The creation of the Canada-US border in the Pacific Northwest is often presented as a tale of two nations and two ideologies, but beyond the macro-political dynamics is the experience of individuals. Before and After the State takes a multidisciplinary approach to examining the imposition of a border across a region that already held a vibrant, highly complex society and dynamic trading networks. It details the evolution of local, trading, and immigrant populations as they moved into the Pacific Northwest and imposed control over public power. Allan McDougall, Lisa Philips, and Daniel Boxberger use case studies to document the malleable character of identity - the discrepancy between individual lives and externally imposed assessments of those lives - and review the strength of national narratives north and south of the border. The authors explore fundamental questions of state formation, social transformation, and the (re)construction of identity to expose the devices and myths of nation building. In revealing the mechanics of this transformation, they demonstrate how the creation of nation states and borders affected the people who lived in the region before and through the transition - with repercussions that still reverberate."--

In 1975, in response to a lack of published information on which to base environmental impact statements, the Minerals Management Service (MMS) began to sponsor a series of social and economic studies in a variety of offshore areas. The goal of these studies is to provide information necessary in the development of accurate and defensible environmental assessments and to make possible the monitoring of environmental effects from OCS development, should such effects occur. Because harvests of naturally-occurring, renewable (wild) resources are important to rural Alaskan communities, much work has focused on subsistence issues. The need for Bristol Bay subsistence-harvest and sociocultural information had been identified in several MMS Alaska Regional Studies Plans. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G), Division of Subsistence, as a result of an FY-1988 study, supplied MMS with a computerized data base and technical papers from baseline subsistence studies they had conducted in Bristol Bay communities beginning in 1980. The general purpose of this study was to describe and analyze the harvest and uses of wild resources for the Bristol Bay region. Specific study objectives were: 1) development of a typology of subregions within Bristol Bay based on multivariate analysis of subsistence harvesting and processing; 2) examination of the ethnographic meanings and context of subsistence; and, 3) analysis of the key political, economic, social and cultural factors that affect subsistence pursuits.