Gathering Places

by Podruchny, Carolyn; Peers, Laura

• ISBN13: 9780774818445
• ISBN10: 0774818441
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-12-01
• Publisher: Univ of British Columbia Pr

Summary

Scholars from multiple disciplines draw on unique and innovative sources - archaeological and material evidence, personal experience and oral history - to recover Aboriginal and cross-cultural histories and explore new approaches to the past.

Author Biography

Carolyn Podruchny teaches history at York University. Laura Peers teaches and is a curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.

Table of Contents

Figures	p. IX
Preface and Acknowledgments	p. X
Map of Canada with Place Names	p. XII
Acronyms	p. XIV
Introduction: Complex Subjectivities, Multiple Ways of Knowing	p. 1
Using Material Culture	p. 23
Putting Up Poles: Power, Navigation, and Cultural Mixing in the Fur Trade	p. 25
Dressing for the Homeward Journey: Western Anishinaabe Leadership Roles Viewed through Two Nineteenth-Century Burials	p. 48
Using Documents	p. 91
Anishinaabe Toodaims: Contexts for Politics, Kinship, and Identity in the Eastern Great Lakes	p. 93
The Contours of Everyday Life: Food and Identity in the Plateau Fur Trade	p. 119
ôMake it last forever as it isö: John McDonald of Garth's Vision of a Native Kingdom in the Northwest	p. 149
Ways of Knowing	p. 179
Being and Becoming Métis: A Personal Reflection	p. 181
Historical Research and the Place of Oral History: Conversations from Berens River	p. 211
Ways of Representing	p. 231
Border Identities: Métis, Halfbreed, and Mixed-Blood	p. 233
Edward Ahenakew's Tutelage by Paul Wallace: Reluctant Scholarship, Inadvertent Preservation	p. 249
Aboriginal History and Historic Sites: The Shifting Ground	p. 274
Afterword: Aaniskotaapaan - Generations and Successions	p. 295
Contributors	p. 312
Index	p. 315
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