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.
Iwi Iwi (] ) are the largest social units in New Zealand Māori society. The Māori language word "iwi" means "people" or "nation", and is often translated as "tribe", or a confederation of tribes. The word "iwi" is both singular and plural in Māori. Most Māori in pre-European times gave their primary allegiance to relatively small groups such as "hapū" ("sub-tribe") and "whānau" ("family").