Threads, Traces, and the Affective Foundation of a Region: The Case Study of the Slate Falls First Nation (Canada)
Abstract For many generations, the seasonal mobility pattern over the territory has been an important factor defining family relations and land-use systems for the northern Anishinabeg in Canada. Using the case study of Slate Falls First Nation, this article, going beyond ecologically and economic-d...
| Published in: | Ethnohistory |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Duke University Press
2018
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00141801-4451392 https://read.dukeupress.edu/ethnohistory/article-pdf/65/3/417/1634352/417oliveira.pdf |
| Summary: | Abstract For many generations, the seasonal mobility pattern over the territory has been an important factor defining family relations and land-use systems for the northern Anishinabeg in Canada. Using the case study of Slate Falls First Nation, this article, going beyond ecologically and economic-driven explanatory models, integrates history and indigenous perceptions of the environment as powerful instruments to record the people’s knowledge of the land and to assert self-determination. The emphasis is placed on people’s daily itineraries and cyclical practices with their ancestral territory, by using their year-round activities as the guiding temporal framework to connect their current lives with the old process of creating and maintaining a region that became their homeland. |
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