Here I Am Yet!
Abstract In this selection a Tlingit Indian recalls a lifetime of working in the outdoors in the southern Yukon and northern British Columbia. Born near Atlin, British Columbia, in April 1903, Johnny Taku Jack worked as “railway section foreman, steamboat officer, big game hunter’s cook, carpenter,...
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Oxford University PressNew York, NY
1990
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195061024.003.0038 https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/52479668/isbn-9780195061024-book-part-38.pdf |
| Summary: | Abstract In this selection a Tlingit Indian recalls a lifetime of working in the outdoors in the southern Yukon and northern British Columbia. Born near Atlin, British Columbia, in April 1903, Johnny Taku Jack worked as “railway section foreman, steamboat officer, big game hunter’s cook, carpenter, and maintenance supervisor.” Trapping supplemented seasonal summer employment. Trapping is still a mainstay of the northern village economy, but was threatened in 1989 when European Common Market Nations, an important market for raw furs, signed a resolution banning the import of furs taken by leg-hold traps. |
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