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• Title:'We are still didene' : stories of hunting and history from northern British Columbia / Thomas McIlwraith.
  
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• Author/Creator:McIlwraith, Thomas, 1969- author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Xwi7xwa Collection
  
• Published/Created:Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2012]
  ©2012
  

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  • Location:XWI7XWA LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: FX M55 W4 2012
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• FNHL (Xwi7xwa) Subjects:Tahltan--Culture.
  Tahltan--Hunting--British Columbia--Iskut--History.
  Tahltan--British Columbia--Iskut--History.
  
• Library of Congress Subjects: Traditional ecological knowledge--British Columbia--Iskut.
  Oral history--British Columbia--Iskut.
  
• Description:xviii, 168 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
  
• Series:Anthropological horizons ; 39.
  
• Summary:"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."--Pub. desc.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-162) and index.
  
• ISBN:9781442643246 (bound)
  1442643242 (bound)
  9781442611733 (pbk.)
  1442611731 (pbk.)
  
• Contents: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: Tahltan-language place names.