Learning to Drive the Yukon River: Western Cartography and Athapaskan Story Maps : RCC Perspectives 2011, no. 4: Big Country, Big Issues: Canada's Environment, Culture, and History: Learning to Drive the Yukon River: Western Cartography and Athapaskan Story Maps

• Main Author: Neufeld, David
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany 2011
• Subjects: environmental politics; culture; indigenous peoples; rivers; Yukon; Canada; Northern Athapaskan; Yukon river
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5282/rcc/5617; http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/5617/

This paper introduces the current conversations about the environment taking place between aboriginal and non-aboriginal peoples in the Yukon Territory of northwestern Canada. Viewing this contemporary cultural meeting ground through the lenses of both Western knowledge and Northern Athapaskan traditional knowledge offers insights into the nature and consequences of difference. This wander through Yukon cultural landscapes may help us appreciate the difficulty a culturally pluralist society faces in coming to agreements on defining and participating in the environment we share.