Download or read book A Complex Culture of the British Columbia Plateau written by Brian Hayden and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early hunter/gatherer societies have traditionally been considered basically egalitarian in nature. This assumption, however, has been challenged by contemporary archaeological and anthropological research, which has demonstrated that many of these societies had complex social, economic, and political structures. This volume considers two British Columbia Native communities -- the Lillooet and Shuswap communities of Fountain and Pavilion - and traces their development into complex societies. The authors explore the relation between resource characteristics and hunter/gatherer adaptations and examine the use of fish, animal, and plant species, documenting their availability and the techniques used in their gathering, processing, and storing. The book also shows how cultural practices, such as raiding, potlatching, and stewardship of resources, can be explained from a cultural ecological point of view. An important contribution to the study of hunting and gathering cultures in the Northwest, this book is the most detailed examination of the subsistence base of a particular hunting and gathering group to date. Its exploration of the reasons why complex hunting and gathering societies emerge, as well as the ecological relationships between cultures and resources, will make an important contribution to the study of cultural ecology and contemporary archaeology.
Download or read book The Poetics of Land and Identity Among British Columbia Indigenous Peoples written by Christine J. Elsey and published by Fernwood Publishing. This book was released on 2024-08-15T00:00:00Z with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Poetics of Land and Identity is about the meaning of land for the many diverse First Nations within British Columbia. The work offers a study of the folklore and symbolic traditions within many Aboriginal regions and illustrates how these traditions emphasize the importance of orality and poetics as the defining factor in the value of land. Christine J. Elsey offers a deft, scholarly discussion of these “storyscapes,” providing us with a point of access for understanding First Nations’ perspectives on the world and their land. She provides an important alternative to the monetary, exploitative, resource-driven view of nature and land ownership and highlights the conflicts between the colonial, Western perspective of nature and the holistic view of First Nations people.
Download or read book Gold and Grand Dreams written by Marie Elliott and published by TouchWood Editions. This book was released on 2000 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the richest gold claims in British Columbia lay along the Quesnel River and its creeks. And there some of the grandest mining schemes were hatched.
Download or read book Northwest Anthropological Research Notes written by Roderick Sprague and published by Northwest Anthropology. This book was released on with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Pow Wow Circuit in the Interior Northwest - Kathleen A. Dahl The Southeastern Idaho Prehistoric Sequence - Ernest S. Lohse Towards an Early Social History of Chinook Jargon - Christopher F. Roth Notes on Indian .Houses of the Wappato Valley - Yvonne Hajda Changes in Subsistence Stategies at the Tsawwassen Site, a Southwestern British Columbia Shell Midden - Karla D. Kusmer A Bibliography of Plateau Ethnobotany - Debra Welch & Michael Striker
Download or read book Resettling the Range written by John Thistle and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2015-02-25 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ranchers who resettled BC’s interior in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries depended on grassland for their cattle, but in this they faced some unlikely competition from grasshoppers and wild horses. With the help of the government, settlers resolved to rid the range of both. Resettling the Range explores the ecology and history of the grassland and the people who lived there by looking closely at these eradication efforts. In the claims of “range improvement” and “rational land use,” author John Thistle uncovers more complicated stories of marginalization: the destruction of wild horses worked to dispossess aboriginal people, while the campaign to exterminate grasshoppers exposed class conflicts and competing versions of resettlement among immigrant ranchers. This unconventional history examines the lasting effects of range improvement, revealing a fascinating – and troubling – chapter of BC history.
Download or read book The Franz Boas Papers Volume 2 written by and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on with total page 1035 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ancient and Pre modern Economies of the North American Pacific Northwest written by Anna Marie Prentiss and published by Elements in Ancient and Pre-Mo. This book was released on 2023-04-27 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element provides an overview of pre-modern and ancient economies of the Pacific Northwest region of North America. The region is widely known for its densely occupied semisedentary villages, intensive production economies, dramatic ritual life, and complex social relations. Scholars recognize significant diversity in the structure of subsistence and goods production in the service of domestic groups and institutional entities throughout the region. Here, domestic and institutional economies, specialization, distribution, economic development, and future directions are reviewed. The Element closes with thoughts on the processes of socio-economic change on the scales of houses, villages, and regional strategies.
Download or read book Hunter Gatherer Archaeobotany written by Sarah L.R. Mason and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-17 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hunter-Gatherer Archaeobotany shows how archaeobotanical investigations can broaden our understanding of the much wider range of plants that have been of use to people in the recent and more distant past. The book compromises sixteen papers covering aspects of the archaeobotany of wild plants ranging across the northern hemisphere from Japan, across America, Europe and into the Near East. Sites examined span the Upper Palaeolithic to the recent past and demonstrate how such studies can extend our understanding of human interaction with plants throughout our history.
Download or read book Keeping it Living written by Douglas Deur and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keeping It Living brings together some of the world'smost prominent specialists on Northwest Coast cultures to examinetraditional cultivation practices from Oregon to Southeast Alaska. Itexplores tobacco gardens among the Haida and Tlingit, managed camasplots among the Coast Salish of Puget Sound and the Strait of Georgia,estuarine root gardens along the central coast of British Columbia,wapato maintenance on the Columbia and Fraser Rivers, and tended berryplots up and down the entire coast. With contributions from a host of experts, Native American scholarsand elders, Keeping It Living documents practices ofmanipulating plants and their environments in ways that enhancedculturally preferred plants and plant communities. It describes howindigenous peoples of this region used and cared for over 300 speciesof plants, from the lofty red cedar to diminutive plants of backwaterbogs.
Download or read book The Earth s Blanket written by Nancy J. Turner and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a thought-provoking look at Native American stories, cultural institutions, and ways of knowing, and what they can teach us about living sustainably.
Download or read book Journal of Northwest Anthropology written by Darby C. Stapp and published by Northwest Anthropology. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: JONA Volume 51 Number 1 - Spring 2017 Engendering the Past: The Status of Gender and Feminist Approaches to Archaeology in the Pacific Northwest and Future Directions - Tiffany J. Fulkerson Chemical Sourcing of Obsidian Artifacts from the Grissom Site (45-KT-301) to Study Source Variability - Anne B. Parfitt and Patrick T. McCutcheon Exploratory Analysis and Significance Testing of the Nez Perce Settlement Patterns Model - Lyle D. Nakonechny Ancient Artifact or New Age Totem: Analysis of a Carved Sacrum from the Oregon Coast - Dennis G. Griffin Changes in Middle Holocene Shellfish Harvesting Practices: Evidence from Labouchere Bay (49-PET-476), Southeast Alaska - Mark R. Williams
Download or read book People of the Middle Fraser Canyon written by Anna Marie Prentiss and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Middle Fraser Canyon contains some of the most important archaeological sites in British Columbia, including the remains of ancient villages that supported hundreds, if not thousands, of people. How and why did these villages come into being? Why were they abandoned? In search of answers to these questions, Anna Marie Prentiss and Ian Kuijt take readers on a voyage of discovery into the ancient history of the St’át’imc, or Upper Lillooet people. Drawing on evidence from archaeological surveys and excavations and from the knowledge of St’át’imc people, they find explanations in the evolution of food-gathering and -processing techniques, climate change, the development of social complexity, and the arrival of Europeans. This wide-ranging vision of the ancient history of British Columbia is brought to vivid life through photographs, artist renderings and fictionalized accounts of life in the villages, a guide to the St’át’imc language, and sidebars on archaeological methods, theories, and debates.
Download or read book People and plants in ancient western North America written by Paul E. Minnis and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Prehistory of the Northwest Coast written by R. G. Matson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a descriptive overview of the cultural complexity on the northwest coast that stretches from northern California to Alaska. Topics covered range from the earliest settlements to the subsequent cultural diversities in Native American populations. Maps, charts, and illustrations further enhance the book's interest and appeal.
Download or read book Fish Law and Colonialism written by Douglas Colebrook Harris and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engrossing history, Fish, Law, and Colonialism recounts the human conflict over fish and fishing in British Columbia and of how that conflict was shaped by law. Pacific salmon fisheries, owned and managed by Aboriginal peoples, were transformed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by commercial and sport fisheries backed by the Canadian state and its law. Through detailed case studies of the conflicts over fish weirs on the Cowichan and Babine rivers, Douglas Harris describes the evolving legal apparatus that dispossessed Aboriginal peoples of their fisheries. Building upon themes developed in literatures on state law and local custom, and law and colonialism, he examines the contested nature of the colonial encounter on the scale of a river. In doing so, Harris reveals the many divisions both within and between government departments, local settler societies, and Aboriginal communities. Drawing on government records, statute books, case reports, newspapers, missionary papers and a secondary anthropological literature to explore the roots of the continuing conflict over the salmon fishery, Harris has produced a superb, and timely, legal and historical study of law as contested terrain in the legal capture of Aboriginal salmon fisheries in British Columbia.
Download or read book Colonizing Bodies written by Mary-Ellen Kelm and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using postmodern and postcolonial conceptions of the body and the power relations of colonization, Kelm shows how a pluralistic medical system evolved among Canada's most populous Aboriginal population. She explores the effect which Canada's Indian policy has had on Aboriginal bodies and considers how humanitarianism and colonial medicine were used to pathologize Aboriginal bodies and institute a regime of doctors, hospitals, and field matrons, all working to encourage assimilation. In this detailed but highly readable ethnohistory, Kelm reveals how Aboriginal people were able to resist and alter these forces in order to preserve their own cultural understanding of their bodies, disease, and medicine.
Download or read book Native Peoples and Water Rights written by Kenichi Matsui and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in-depth, interdisciplinary study of Native water rights issues in Canada.
