Communicating "forest" : co-managing crises and opportunities with Northern Secwepemc First Nations and the Province of British Columbia ...

• Main Author: Greskiw, Garth East
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: University of British Columbia 2010
• Subjects: First Nations
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0075041; https://doi.library.ubc.ca/10.14288/1.0075041

The following research inquires about the communication challenges for co-management of natural resources in traditional territories of Secwepemc First Nations. The results will be of interest to First Nations, lands and resource planners of British Columbia and others who are interested in developing acceptable strategies for co-management of indigenous lands with ’post-colonial’ governments. The purpose of the study is to find out how co-management can occur so that learning and continual adaptation to new knowledge is planned. Communication by speaking and listening and by sharing stories continues to be important for maintaining culture--but communication by reading and writing is the dominant method currently used by management authorities. Communication crises occur when traditional ecological knowledge is required to fit within a rigid technology of literacy (Nadasdy 1999). There is little presently known about how the Province of British Columbia and First Nations can communicate so that acceptable ...