'We Are Still Didene' : : Stories of Hunting and History from Northern British Columbia / / Thomas McIlwraith.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: McIlwraith, Thomas,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Anthropological Horizons
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (172 p.) :; 3 tables; 1 map; 7 photographs

Detailing the history of the aboriginal village of Iskut, British Columbia over the past 100 years, ‘We Are Still Didene’ examines the community's transition from subsistence hunting to wage work in trapping, guiding, construction, and service jobs. Using naturally occurring, extended transcripts of stories told by the group's hunters, Thomas McIlwraith explores how Iskut hunting culture and the memories that the Iskut share have been maintained orally. McIlwraith demonstrates the ways in which these stories challenge the idealized images of Aboriginals that underlie state-sponsored traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) studies. McIlwraith instead illuminates how these narratives are connected to the Iskut Village's complex relationships with resource extraction companies and the province of British Columbia, as well as their interactions with animals and the environment.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Orthographic and Transcription Conventions -- Introduction: The Persistence of Hunting -- Part I: Background -- 1 Aboriginal Hunting in an Era of Traditional Ecological Knowledge -- 2 Iskut History and Hunting -- Part II: Stories about Hunting and History -- 3 ‘That Bloody Moose Got Up and Took Off ’: Food Animals and Traditional Knowledge -- 4 ‘Rough Riding All Day’: Work Animals and Guiding Work -- 5 Chief Louie’s Speech at Spatsizi Plateau Wilderness Park -- 6 Everyday Talk about Hunting -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Anthropological Horizons