Respect for Grizzly Bears: an Aboriginal Approach for Co-existence and Resilience

• Main Authors: Clark, Douglas A, Slocombe, D. Scott
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Resilience Alliance 2009
• Subjects: bear ceremonialism; Champagne and Aishihik First Nations; Inuit; Inuvialuit; Northwest Territories; Nunavut; resilience; salmon; social-ecological system; Southern Tutchone; traditional ecological knowledge; Ursus arctos; Yukon; Aishihik; Canada; Champagne; Northwest Territories; Nunavut; Yukon; First Nations; inuit; Inuvialuit; Tutchone; Ursus arctos
• Online Access: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol14/iss1/art42/

Aboriginal peoples’ respect for grizzly bear (Ursus arctos) is widely acknowledged, but rarely explored, in wildlife management discourse in northern Canada. Practices of respect expressed toward bears were observed and grouped into four categories: terminology, stories, reciprocity, and ritual. In...