Women in Ethnography: The Research of James A. Teit

Wickwire, Wendy; Tiet, James A.

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“…Early twentieth-century anthropologist James Teit's publications (Teit and Boas, 1900;Teit, 1906Teit, , 1930 and unpublished field notes and manuscripts collected and analyzed by historians like Wickwire (1991Wickwire ( , 1998Wickwire ( , 2019 and Wickwire and Tiet (1993) provided broad perspectives for St'at'imc (and Nlaka'pamux) resource management and governance. For example, Teit noted how nearby Nlaka'pamux organized in a de-centralized fashion, appointing different chiefs for tasks like war, hunting, and cultivation.…”

Section: St'at'imc Territory Mckay Creek Wildfire Areamentioning

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Pop-up restoration in colonial contexts: applying an indigenous food systems lens to ecological restoration

Grenz,

Armstrong

2023

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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As environmental injustices and their disproportionate harms to Indigenous communities are increasingly acknowledged, restoration strategies are being deployed widely by environmental NGOs, resource extraction industries, and government agencies. The inclusion of Indigenous communities and their knowledges in restoration efforts are often considered progress in the pursuit of ecological reconciliation. However, in some cases we have observed a lack of meaningful progress as settler colonial prescriptions for land-healing can eschew efforts to decolonize ecological restoration — what we have labeled “pop-up restoration.” We consider two restoration efforts underway in St’at’imc and Quw’utsun territories (Canada) and contrast them with what we are learning alongside the communities’ own values and efforts to reclaim and revitalize food systems throughout forest, wetland, and grassland systems. Utilizing culturally appropriate pathways, we then evaluate how applying an Indigenous Food Systems lens to ecological restoration may provide a framework to remedy pop-up restoration, confronting settler colonial aspirations to transform Indigenous homelands while asserting justice in ecological restoration contexts.

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Section: St'at'imc Territory Mckay Creek Wildfire Areamentioning

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Pop-up restoration in colonial contexts: applying an indigenous food systems lens to ecological restoration

Grenz,

Armstrong

2023

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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“… In addition to the Robinson books, see Wickwire, “Stories from the Margins”; Wickwire, “They Wanted. Me to Help Them”; Wickwire, “We Shall Drink From the Stream”; and Wickwire, “Women in Ethnography.”…”

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Unsettling British Columbia: Canadian Aboriginal Historiography, 1992–2012

Neylan

2013

History Compass

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This is the second of two essays examining the recent historiography of Canadian Aboriginal History published roughly in the last two decades (1992-2012) using a regional focus -British Columbia. Historians have been touched by trends outside their own discipline, even from beyond the academy. Aboriginal land claims, rights litigation, and landmark cases originating in BC, such as Delgamuukw, have made historians more aware of constructions of history in the courts. Scholars writing about Aboriginal history in British Columbia reference popular and community histories and education curricula alongside academic works. The fixation on colonialism has kept Native-Settler relations at the forefront. Recently, however, the scholarship has begun to push past mere explorations of BC's Aboriginal peoples in colonial history to consider colonialism within Aboriginal history and epistemologies. Indigenous-centric scholarship has demanded a more substantial voice in the production of histories, some insisting on exclusivity. At the same time, academic historians seek out opportunities for cross-cultural dialogues and listen attentively to alternative histories bringing them into the professional scholarship even at the cost of "unsettling" historical narratives.

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“…Three contemporary authors, Shirley Sterling (1997), Wendy Wickwire (1993, and Ralph Maud (1978), blame the overriding influence of Boas for the depersonalising of the works published under Boas's direction. Wickwire describes this type of research as " salvage" ethnography-an attempt to reconstruct "vanishing" cultures before they became "tarnished " by Western ways (Wickwire 1993:550).…”

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More than useable tools: towards an appreciation of Ne?kepmx fibre technology as a significant expression of culture

Amaron¹

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Prior to the general adoption of manufactured goods brought by traders and settlers to N+e?kepmx territory. N+e?kepmx women spent a great deal of time processing plant materials ii to make items for daily. ceremonial. and trade purposes, such as baskets. mats, clothing.cradles. rope, and nets, as well as a number of products for decorative or recreational purposes.I call this activity fibre technology. Much of the research concerning the use of plants by N+e?kepmx women in this type of technology was compiled almost one hundred years ago. It offers valuable information about this activity during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Since the body of literature covering this time frame was produced predominantly under the influence of the Boasian anthropological theory of cultural relativity, it describes fibre products mainly by their form, the techniques used, and their utilitarian function. Based on more recent literature about First Nations' cultural practices, that includes a strong Native voice, and on interviews I had with N+e?kepmx women. I argue in this thesis that N+e?kepmx women not only produced useable objects through fibre technology, but that these were works of artistic beauty and also symbolic representations of N+e?kepmx culture. N+e?kepmx women made fibre products with a commitment to respect the spiritual and material worlds at all stages of the process. This is a deep part of N+e?kepmx cultural values, traditional knowledge, and identity.That commitment manifests in beautifully crafted pieces that are distinctly N+e?kepmx. At the same time, through their own ingenuity N+e ?kepmx women. both prior to and since colonisation.have adapted fibre products to meet the changing conditions of their own lives. The practice of fibre technology has diminished considerably in the last several decades. Nevertheless, those women who continue to practise it and teach it to others do so with a strong commitment to their traditions in order that fibre technology can remain an important symbolic expression of N+e 7kepmx culture.

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Women in Ethnography: The Research of James A. Teit

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Pop-up restoration in colonial contexts: applying an indigenous food systems lens to ecological restoration

Pop-up restoration in colonial contexts: applying an indigenous food systems lens to ecological restoration

Unsettling British Columbia: Canadian Aboriginal Historiography, 1992–2012

More than useable tools: towards an appreciation of Ne?kepmx fibre technology as a significant expression of culture

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