What do these peoples of many nations and tribal affiliations, whom global maritime and naval historian Barry M. Gough had good relations with, believe as a resource and spiritual symbol?
Barry M. Gough Barry Morton Gough (born 17 September 1938, Victoria, B.C.) is a global maritime and naval historian based on Canada's Pacific coast. Gough has made in the British Columbia and western North American context a number of monographic contributions to ethnohistory, cross-cultural relations, patterns of missionary acceptance among Northwest Coast peoples, frontier–borderland studies and environmental history. Within the perspective of seapower worldwide, he has worked to explore the maritime dimensions of British Columbia history and to recast and reaffirm the imperial foundations of Canadian history.
Fula people The Fula people or Fulani or Fulɓe (Fula: "Fulɓe" ; French: "Peul" ; Hausa: "Fulani or Hilani" ; Portuguese: "Fula" ; Wolof: "Pël" ; Bambara: "Fulaw" ), numbering between 20 and 25 million people in total, are one of the largest ethnic groups in the Sahel and West Africa, widely dispersed across the region. The Fula people are traditionally believed to have roots in peoples from North Africa and the Middle East, who later intermingled with local West African ethnic groups. As an ethnic group, they are bound together by the Fula language and their Islamic religious affiliation, their history and their culture.