Charles Hill-Tout

Charles Hill - Tout ( born September 28, 1858 in Buckland, England; † June 30, 1944 in Vancouver ) was an English- Canadian amateur ethnologist who in the early phase of exploration of Canada's First Nations, specifically the ethnic groups west Canada played a crucial role. He explored and documented 1885-1911 especially the groups of inland and coastal Salish in British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana.

Hill - Tout first studied theology, but then emigrated to Canada. In 1891 he became head ( headman ) of a boys' school in Vancouver. He bought land on the Fraser River, he worked as a farmer. At the same time he began studies on the umwohnenden Salish groups with which connected him many friends. In 1907 he published in the series Native Races of the British Empire the band The Far West: The Home of the Salish and Dene. 1911 was followed by his main work on the Salish. It was four volumes, which appeared under the title The Salish People. The work was reissued in 1978.

Due to its ethnological services he was appointed in 1913 as President of the anthropology department of the Royal Society of Canada. He also became a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.

Despite his friendships he rejected the right of the Canadian government, these nations to " civilize ", not from.

Works

• The Salish People, 4 volumes, 1978; thereof to the inland Salish: Volume 1: The Thompson and the Okanagan and Vol 2: The Squamish and the Lillooet to the coastal Salish Bd 3: The Mainland Halkomelem, Vol 4: The Sechelt and the South Eastern Tribes of Vancouver Iceland, reissued by Ralph Maud, Vancouver 1978.
• The Far West: The Home of the Salish and Dene, London: Constable, 1907.