Carole Blackburn is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia and the author of Harvest of Souls: Jesuit Missions and Colonialism in North America, 1632-1650. She has been researching the Nisg̱a'a Final Agreement since 1999, conducting interviews and engaging in participant observation with treaty negotiators, politicians, bureaucrats, Nisg̱a'a citizens, government workers, and lawyers for the province, the federal government, and the Nisg̱a'a.