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
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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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spelling ftunstandrewcris:oai:risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk:publications/d8f81033-97c1-4307-b1fc-911b4925863b 2025-01-16T22:16:05+00:00 Making Lobsticks:Travelling Trails with Teetł’it Gwich’in Loovers, Jan Peter Laurens 2016-03-01 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 eng eng info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess Loovers , J P L 2016 , ' Making Lobsticks : Travelling Trails with Teetł’it Gwich’in ' , Sibirica : Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies , vol. 15 , no. 1 , pp. 41-63 . https://doi.org/10.3167/sib.2016.150102 apprenticeship boreal forest circumpolar North Dene Gwich'in markers movement pedagogy trails travel article 2016 ftunstandrewcris https://doi.org/10.3167/sib.2016.150102 2022-01-30T07:58:03Z 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. Article in Journal/Newspaper Gwich’in Sibirica University of St Andrews: Research Portal Canada Sibirica 15 1
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Loovers, Jan Peter Laurens
Making Lobsticks:Travelling Trails with Teetł’it Gwich’in
title Making Lobsticks:Travelling Trails with Teetł’it Gwich’in
title_full Making Lobsticks:Travelling Trails with Teetł’it Gwich’in
title_fullStr Making Lobsticks:Travelling Trails with Teetł’it Gwich’in
title_full_unstemmed Making Lobsticks:Travelling Trails with Teetł’it Gwich’in
title_short Making Lobsticks:Travelling Trails with Teetł’it Gwich’in
title_sort making lobsticks:travelling trails with teetł’it gwich’in
topic apprenticeship
boreal forest
circumpolar North
Dene
Gwich'in
markers
movement
pedagogy
trails
travel
topic_facet apprenticeship
boreal forest
circumpolar North
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Gwich'in
markers
movement
pedagogy
trails
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url 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