Logging camps supplied a theatre for Aboriginal guys to conquer the racial and social oppression that newcomers superimposed upon Aboriginal individuals in twentieth-century British Columbia. Aboriginal loggers could drop government paternalism and defy stereotypes including the ‘lazy Indian’ by earning money and supplying for households and communities. Doing so permitted all of them to meet both Coast Salish and settler notions of maleness; whilst every type of maleness was special, both highly valued hard work and supplying for one’s family. […]
