Making Lobsticks:Travelling Trails with Teetł’it Gwich’in

Based on extended work with Teetł’it Gwich’in, this article illuminates the importance of traveling and trails and markers in the boreal forests of northern Canada. The author discusses in detail his own experience with a pedagogy in traveling on the land and focuses on one particular land mark: a l...

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Published in:Sibirica
Main Author: Loovers, Jan Peter Laurens
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2016
Subjects:
apprenticeship
boreal forest
circumpolar North
Dene
Gwich'in
markers
movement
pedagogy
trails
travel
Canada
Gwich’in
Sibirica
Online Access:https://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/portal/en/researchoutput/making-lobsticks(d8f81033-97c1-4307-b1fc-911b4925863b).html
https://doi.org/10.3167/sib.2016.150102
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Summary:Based on extended work with Teetł’it Gwich’in, this article illuminates the importance of traveling and trails and markers in the boreal forests of northern Canada. The author discusses in detail his own experience with a pedagogy in traveling on the land and focuses on one particular land mark: a lobstick. Through the example of making a lobstick, this article illustrates how the land is an entanglement of relations between people, places, memories and movement.

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