Posted in Aboriginal Title and Rights, CAA2022, Research Projects, Settler appropriation on Apr 28th, 2022 Comments Off on The archaeologist and the waakyil (currant) patch.
In 2008 I chartered a vessel for a pilot project exploring intertidal stone traps. This was the gateway to a decade and a half archaeological adventure. My family was the crew in 2008 and we sailed from Vancouver to laxyuup Gitxxała in a 40 foot vessel. We worked our way through the territory one cove, […]
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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, Research Projects on Aug 31st, 2019 Comments Off on A ‘disparaging’ assumption: reflection on crown experts
British Columbia invests a lot of effort to assess Aboriginal rights and title. Over the years I have read many government assessments of aboriginal rights. These reports, briefing notes, and summaries tend toward narrow, highly critical assessments of the existence of aboriginal rights. While acknowledging rights and title in the abstract such reports, more often […]
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