Download or read book Trail of Story Traveller s Path written by Leslie Main Johnson and published by Athabasca University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sensitive examination of the meanings of landscape draws on the author's rich experience with diverse enviornments and peoples: the Gitksan and Witsuwit'en of norwestern British Columbia, the Kaska Dena of the southern Yukon, and the Gwich'in of the Mackenzie Delta. Johnson maintains that the ways people understand and act upon land have wide implications, shaping cultures and ways of life, determining identity and polity, and creating and mainting environmental relationships and economies. Her emphassis on landscape and ways of knowing the land provides a particular take on ecological relationships of First Peoples to land.

Download or read book Land Use Guidelines written by Hardy Associates (1978) Ltd and published by Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. This book was released on 1984 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents land use guidelines for planning, development, operation, and abandonment of access roads and trails in NWT and Yukon. Intended to provide understanding of associated impacts and mitigative meaures and show that environmental protection and cost-efficient road construction and maintenance are compatible.

Download or read book A Century of Parks Canada 1911 2011 written by Claire Elizabeth Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Canada created a Dominion Parks Branch in 1911, it became the first country in the world to establish an agency devoted to managing its national parks. Over the past century this agency, now Parks Canada, has been at the center of important debates about the place of nature in Canadian nationhood and relationships between Canada s diverse ecosystems and its communities."

Download or read book Socio economic Assessment written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Contributions to the Ethnography of the Kutchin written by Cornelius Osgood and published by Human Relations Area Files. This book was released on 1936 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Landscape Ethnoecology written by Leslie Main Johnson and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although anthropologists and cultural geographers have explored "place" in various senses, little cross-cultural examination of "kinds of place," or ecotopes, has been presented from an ethno-ecological perspective. In this volume, indigenous and local understandings of landscape are investigated in order to better understand how human communities relate to their terrestrial and aquatic resources. The contributors go beyond the traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) literature and offer valuable insights on ecology and on land and resources management, emphasizing the perception of landscape above the level of species and their folk classification. Focusing on the ways traditional people perceive and manage land and biotic resources within diverse regional and cultural settings, the contributors address theoretical issues and present case studies from North America, Mexico, Amazonia, tropical Asia, Africa and Europe.

Download or read book The Mackenzie River Basin written by Charles Camsell and published by T. Mulvey. This book was released on 1919 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Northern Land Use Guidelines written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Yeenoo D i K tr ijilkai Ganagwaandaii written by Judy Thompson and published by Gatineau, Québec : Canadian Museum of Civilization. This book was released on 2005 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Elegant, distinctively styled garments of white caribou hide once were a striking feature of Gwich'in culture. Clothing styles changed following contact with Europeans, however, and by the late nineteenth century low Gwich'in seamstresses made "old style" outfits. Within a few generations, as women no longer learned and passed on the skills involved, knowledge of this aspect of their culture was lost to the Gwich'in." "In February 2000, in partnership with the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre and the Canadian Museum of Civilization (CMC), the Gwich'in Social and Cultural Institute initiated a project to "repatriate" the knowledge and skills involved in making a traditional summer clothing outfit through replication of a nineteenth century example from the CMC collection. More than forty seamstresses and many others in Gwich'in communities, and in the two museums, participated. Their work culminated in early 2003 with the completion of five beautiful reproduction outfits." "This book tells the story of this collaboration between two museums and the Gwich'in of Canada's Northwest Territories. It is richly illustrated - with historic and artifact photographs, garment pattern drawings, and images of the people, places and events central to the project. This will be a resource to all who are interested in Gwich'in cultural heritage."--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book Sensitivity of Permafrost to Climate Warming in Canada written by Sharon Lee Smith and published by Natural Resources Canada. This book was released on 2004 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Gwich in Ethnobotany written by Alestine Andre and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Past and Present Vegetation of the Far Northwest of Canada written by James Cunningham Ritchie and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quaternary history of vegetation in the northern Yukon and adjacent Mackenzie Delta region.

Download or read book No Home in a Homeland written by Julia Christensen and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dene, a traditionally nomadic people, have no word for homelessness, a rare condition in the Canadian North prior to the 1990s. In No Home in a Homeland, Julia Christensen documents the rise of Indigenous homelessness and argues that this alarming trend will continue so long as policy makers continue to ignore northern perspectives and root causes, which lie deep in the region’s colonial past. Christensen interweaves analysis of the region’s unique history with the personal stories of people living homeless in two cities – Yellowknife and Inuvik. These individual and collective narratives tell a larger story of displacement and exclusion, residential schools and family breakdown, addiction and poor mental health, poverty and unemployment, and urbanization and institutionalization. But they also tell a story of hope and renewal. Understanding what it means to be homeless in the North and how Indigenous people think about home and homemaking is the first step, Christensen argues, on the path to decolonizing existing approaches and practices.

Download or read book Band Organization of the Peel River Kutchin written by Richard Slobodin and published by R. Duhamel. This book was released on 1962 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work, a revision of a Columbia University doctoral dissertation (1959), is based primarily upon information obtained during 18 month's residence among the Peel River Kutchin (Loucheux) Indians in 1938-39 and 1946-47.

Download or read book Indigenous Peoples Food Systems written by Harriet V. Kuhnlein and published by Fao. This book was released on 2009 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, globalisation and homogenisation have replaced local food cultures. The 12 case studies presented in this book show the wealth of knowledge in indigenous communities in diverse ecosystems, the richness of their food resources, the inherent strengths of the local traditional food systems, how people think about and use these foods, the influx of industrial and purchased food, and the circumstances of the nutrition transition in indigenous communities. The unique styles of conceptualising food systems and writing about them were preserved. Photographs and tables accompany each chapter.