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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Published in:	Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis
Main Author:	Walsh, David
Format:	Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:	English
Published:	The Donner Institute 2015
Subjects:	Indigenous peoples > Canada Dene Indians Indians of North America Climatic changes Global warming Hunting and gathering societies Arctic regions Food Eating and meals Diet Cooking Food habits Nutrition Arctic Canada Northwest Territories Climate change Subarctic
Online Access:	https://journal.fi/scripta/article/view/67455 https://doi.org/10.30674/scripta.67455

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spelling	fttsvojs:oai:journal.fi:article/67455 2023-05-15T15:05:16+02:00 The nature of food: indigenous Dene foodways and ontologies in the era of climate change Walsh, David 2015-04-13 application/pdf https://journal.fi/scripta/article/view/67455 https://doi.org/10.30674/scripta.67455 eng eng The Donner Institute https://journal.fi/scripta/article/view/67455/27752 https://journal.fi/scripta/article/view/67455 doi:10.30674/scripta.67455 Copyright (c) 2015 David Walsh https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 CC-BY-NC-ND Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis; Vol 26 (2015): Religion and Food; 225-49 2343-4937 0582-3226 Indigenous peoples -- Canada Dene Indians Indians of North America Climatic changes Global warming Hunting and gathering societies Arctic regions Food Eating and meals Diet Cooking Food habits Nutrition info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2015 fttsvojs https://doi.org/10.30674/scripta.67455 2020-05-29T23:20:46Z 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 Arctic Climate change Global warming Northwest Territories Subarctic Federation of Finnish Learned Societies: Scientific Journals Online Arctic Canada Northwest Territories Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis 26 225 49
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description	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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title	The nature of food: indigenous Dene foodways and ontologies in the era of climate change
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title_full	The nature of food: indigenous Dene foodways and ontologies in the era of climate change
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The nature of food: indigenous Dene foodways and ontologies in the era of climate change

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