Indigenous Toponyms as Pedagogical Tools: Reflections from Research with Tl’azt’en Nation, British Columbia

• Main Authors: Karen Heikkilä, Gail Fondahl
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Geographical Society of Finland 2010
• Subjects: British Columbia; toponymy; First Nations; indigenous; participatory research; culturally sensitive education; Geography (General); G1-922; Canada; Trembleur; Dakelh
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/1c7e0f2e73c540858395ec01b4d2239a

Apart from conventional understandings of its utilitarian function as spatial labels (often eponymous in character), toponymy is seldom appreciated as palimpsest or for the layers of meaning it assumes, conveyed in place-name etymologies and local knowledge associated with the named places. Over the...