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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croxfordunivpr:10.1093/oso/9780195061024.003.0038 2023-12-31T10:23:40+01:00 Here I Am Yet! Jack, Johnny Taku 1990 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195061024.003.0038 https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/52479668/isbn-9780195061024-book-part-38.pdf unknown Oxford University PressNew York, NY A Republic Of Rivers page 241-246 ISBN 9780195061024 9780197725870 book-chapter 1990 croxfordunivpr https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195061024.003.0038 2023-12-06T08:45:00Z 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. Book Part tlingit Yukon Oxford University Press (via Crossref) 241 246 |
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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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Oxford University PressNew York, NY |
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1990 |
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