The nature of food: indigenous Dene foodways and ontologies in the era of climate change
Climate change leading to a drastic decline in caribou populations has prompted strict hunting regulations in Canada’s Northwest Territories since 2010. The Dene, a subarctic indigenous people, have responded by turning to tradition and calling for more respectful hunting to demonstrate respectful r...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:a1dfdf8a2a9a47c58a0f5ca55538716c 2023-05-15T17:46:39+02:00 The nature of food: indigenous Dene foodways and ontologies in the era of climate change David Walsh 2015-04-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.30674/scripta.67455 https://doaj.org/article/a1dfdf8a2a9a47c58a0f5ca55538716c EN eng Donner Institute https://journal.fi/scripta/article/view/67455 https://doaj.org/toc/0582-3226 https://doaj.org/toc/2343-4937 doi:10.30674/scripta.67455 0582-3226 2343-4937 https://doaj.org/article/a1dfdf8a2a9a47c58a0f5ca55538716c Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, Vol 26 (2015) Indigenous peoples -- Canada Dene Indians Indians of North America Climatic changes Global warming Hunting and gathering societies Religion (General) BL1-50 article 2015 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.30674/scripta.67455 2022-12-31T08:53:49Z Climate change leading to a drastic decline in caribou populations has prompted strict hunting regulations in Canada’s Northwest Territories since 2010. The Dene, a subarctic indigenous people, have responded by turning to tradition and calling for more respectful hunting to demonstrate respectful reciprocity to the caribou, including a community-driven foodways project on caribou conservation and Dene caribou conservation which I co-facilitated in 2011. In these ways the caribou is approached as a person. Dene responses to caribou decline can best be understood by ontological theories of an expanded notion of indigenous personhood. However, I argue these theories are inadequate without an attention to foodways, specifically the getting, sharing, and returning of food to the land. The necessity of sustenance reveals a complicated relationship of give-and-take between humans and caribou, negotiated by tradition, yet complicated by the contemporary crisis. Article in Journal/Newspaper Northwest Territories Subarctic Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Canada Northwest Territories Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis 26 225 49 |
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Climate change leading to a drastic decline in caribou populations has prompted strict hunting regulations in Canada’s Northwest Territories since 2010. The Dene, a subarctic indigenous people, have responded by turning to tradition and calling for more respectful hunting to demonstrate respectful reciprocity to the caribou, including a community-driven foodways project on caribou conservation and Dene caribou conservation which I co-facilitated in 2011. In these ways the caribou is approached as a person. Dene responses to caribou decline can best be understood by ontological theories of an expanded notion of indigenous personhood. However, I argue these theories are inadequate without an attention to foodways, specifically the getting, sharing, and returning of food to the land. The necessity of sustenance reveals a complicated relationship of give-and-take between humans and caribou, negotiated by tradition, yet complicated by the contemporary crisis. |
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