Posted in Fisheries, Forestry, Research Projects on Jan 26th, 2020 Comments Off on Capitalist expansion into laxyuup Gitxaała
This blog post is a reflection on a larger project I am working on: a case study of the transition in modes of production from a kin ordered mode of production to a capitalist mode of production. My account follows Ts’bassa, a Gitxaała hereditary leader, as he first arrives on the coast, millennia prior to […]
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Posted in Aboriginal Title and Rights, Fisheries, Research Projects on Jun 22nd, 2018 Comments Off on Customary Tenure Systems and Territorial Rights. Speaking notes for CICADA axis presentation.
June 18, 2018. Unceded Indigenous lands of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. Tenure and territorial rights are fundamental material conditions for all societies. Our focus on Indigenous communities necessitates examination of colonial processes, which quite bluntly are capitalist processes pure and simple. By this I mean that for the last several centuries the underlying fundamental driver […]
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Posted in Aboriginal Title and Rights, Climate Change, Fieldschool, Fisheries, Forestry, Health Issues, Research Projects on Mar 7th, 2018 Comments Off on Student Publications from Two Decades of Community Engagement
For twenty years students have worked with me on collaborative projects within Laxyuup Gitxaała. Some have conducted research as part of ethnographic field schools (2006, 2007), others have worked as research interns with Gitxaała Nation, and others still have been research assistants working directly with me as research assistants and/or collaborators. Providing student research opportunities […]
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