Before the Roads, Before the Mines: Denesuliné Memories, Narratives, and the Legacy of a Northern Hunting Society - Hardcover
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Before the Roads, Before the Mines: Denesuliné Memories, Narratives, and the Legacy of a Northern Hunting Society - Hardcover
$97.20
by Robert Jarvenpa (Author)
Before the Roads, Before the Mines is a narrative-based ethnohistory of a Denesuliné community, also known as the Chipewyan, Kesyehot'ine, or Poplar House People. The discovery of high-grade uranium deposits in northern Saskatchewan, Canada, in the mid- to late 1970s ushered in an era of mining and roadbuilding that largely replaced the traditional livelihoods of these subarctic hunter-fishers with wage labor in mining, construction, and related industries. The advent of new communications technologies and consumer goods, and a road to the outside world, created ruptures in the social fabric of the community.
Robert Jarvenpa highlights the historical experiences of middle-aged and older individuals who vividly recall a time before the roads and mines existed--when young and old alike spoke the Denesuliné language and when entire families lived in a seasonally nomadic fashion in the bush. They continually invoke the past in the problematic present, a ritualized form of communication integral to resisting or adapting to the erosive changes of a rapidly industrializing resource-extraction frontier. Jarvenpa showcases the spoken words of the Denesuliné informants as a means of documenting and interpreting their historical past in the face of contemporary peril as the subarctic permafrost recedes and multinational corporations eye Indigenous lands for their minerals.Author Biography
Robert Jarvenpa is a professor emeritus of anthropology at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Circumpolar Lives and Livelihood: A Comparative Ethnoarchaeology of Gender and Subsistence (with Hetty Jo Brumbach) (Nebraska, 2006) and Declared Defective: Native Americans, Eugenics, and the Myth of Nam Hollow (Nebraska, 2018).
Number of Pages: 294
Dimensions: 0.81 x 9 x 6 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: October 01, 2024
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