Coming full circle?: Aboriginal archives in British Columbia in Canadian and international perspective
This thesis examines the past, present and future development and nature of Aboriginal archives and archiving in British Columbia, set in Canadian and international perspective. The thesis focuses on Aboriginal archives in BC because the higher number of First Nations there than elsewhere in Canada...
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ftunivmanitoba:oai:mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca:1993/3118 2023-06-18T03:40:39+02:00 Coming full circle?: Aboriginal archives in British Columbia in Canadian and international perspective Mogyorosi, Rita-Sophia Nesmith, Thomas C. (History) Bohr, Roland (History, University of Winnipeg) Sweeney, Shelley (Archives and Special Collections, University of Manitoba) Wall, Sharon (History, University of Winnipeg) 2009-01-19T16:53:53Z 1134821 bytes application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/1993/3118 eng eng http://hdl.handle.net/1993/3118 open access archives Aboriginal British Columbia Canada master thesis 2009 ftunivmanitoba 2023-06-04T17:47:00Z This thesis examines the past, present and future development and nature of Aboriginal archives and archiving in British Columbia, set in Canadian and international perspective. The thesis focuses on Aboriginal archives in BC because the higher number of First Nations there than elsewhere in Canada makes it one of the most prominent and important areas of Aboriginal archiving activity in the country. The thesis begins with an introduction to the holistic ways in which Aboriginal people in Canada traditionally recorded, preserved, and communicated knowledge and history over time, and thus the methods by which they “archived” up to the mid-twentieth century, in contrast to and compared with Euro-Canadian traditions of archiving. It then goes on to explore the various forces that directly and indirectly disrupted the processes by which Aboriginal culture and knowledge, and thus memory and identity, were transmitted from one generation to the next. As a result of these forces, and the inevitable intertwining of Aboriginal and Euro-Canadian cultures and worldviews, Aboriginal people increasingly found themselves having to access Euro-Canadian archives or establish their own along similar lines. In BC, where historically very few treaties were signed, the documentation created in the context of land claims and treaty negotiations in particular meant that such records were couched in occidental rather than Aboriginal people’s own cultural terms and thus demanded corresponding storage and use methods. Thus, the thesis suggests that such new approaches to Aboriginal archives and archiving were a “reactionary” or defensive response to legal, political, and social requirements and forces, rather than simply as a basis for communicating and recording a traditionally “holistic” sense of culture, memory, and identity. And, as will be seen, this reactionary response was not limited to BC, but would reveal itself concurrently in the rest of Canada, and in other colonised countries such as Australia and the United States. With ... Master Thesis First Nations MSpace at the University of Manitoba British Columbia ENVELOPE(-125.003,-125.003,54.000,54.000) Canada |
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This thesis examines the past, present and future development and nature of Aboriginal archives and archiving in British Columbia, set in Canadian and international perspective. The thesis focuses on Aboriginal archives in BC because the higher number of First Nations there than elsewhere in Canada makes it one of the most prominent and important areas of Aboriginal archiving activity in the country. The thesis begins with an introduction to the holistic ways in which Aboriginal people in Canada traditionally recorded, preserved, and communicated knowledge and history over time, and thus the methods by which they “archived” up to the mid-twentieth century, in contrast to and compared with Euro-Canadian traditions of archiving. It then goes on to explore the various forces that directly and indirectly disrupted the processes by which Aboriginal culture and knowledge, and thus memory and identity, were transmitted from one generation to the next. As a result of these forces, and the inevitable intertwining of Aboriginal and Euro-Canadian cultures and worldviews, Aboriginal people increasingly found themselves having to access Euro-Canadian archives or establish their own along similar lines. In BC, where historically very few treaties were signed, the documentation created in the context of land claims and treaty negotiations in particular meant that such records were couched in occidental rather than Aboriginal people’s own cultural terms and thus demanded corresponding storage and use methods. Thus, the thesis suggests that such new approaches to Aboriginal archives and archiving were a “reactionary” or defensive response to legal, political, and social requirements and forces, rather than simply as a basis for communicating and recording a traditionally “holistic” sense of culture, memory, and identity. And, as will be seen, this reactionary response was not limited to BC, but would reveal itself concurrently in the rest of Canada, and in other colonised countries such as Australia and the United States. With ... |
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Nesmith, Thomas C. (History) Bohr, Roland (History, University of Winnipeg) Sweeney, Shelley (Archives and Special Collections, University of Manitoba) Wall, Sharon (History, University of Winnipeg) |
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Coming full circle?: Aboriginal archives in British Columbia in Canadian and international perspective |
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Coming full circle?: Aboriginal archives in British Columbia in Canadian and international perspective |
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Coming full circle?: Aboriginal archives in British Columbia in Canadian and international perspective |
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Coming full circle?: Aboriginal archives in British Columbia in Canadian and international perspective |
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coming full circle?: aboriginal archives in british columbia in canadian and international perspective |
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