Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Terry Glavin blogs this week about the lynching of a Sto:lo (Coast Salish, 100km east of Vancouver) boy named Louie Sam in 1884. The hanging was carried out by Americans wanting retribution for a murder in Nooksack, Washington. The anniversary is today and, as Glavin notes, the Washington state legislature will adopt a resolution to [...]
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Charles Menzies and the group that writes Forests and Oceans for the Future are offering podcasts of their speakers’s series. All the information is here. This group describes its interests this way: [This is] a research group based at [the University of British Columbia] that focuses on ecological knowledge research conducted in collaboration with north [...]
Monday, February 27, 2006
Vancouver radio is buzzing today with talk — mainly complaints — about the Vancouver Olympic Committee’s eight minute ‘show’ boosting Vancouver and Whistler in the closing ceremonies of the Torino Olympics. Like the initial questions about the appropriateness of an Inuit Inukshuk (and here) as the logo for the 2010 Olympics, talk radio hosts and [...]
Saturday, February 25, 2006
I have been struggling lately to streamline my anthropology dissertation and to remove superfluous text and examples. To overcome this, I have written a paragraph about what I am trying to accomplish and, hopefully, it will guide my writing. If you are interested, I have posted it on my website. (My fieldwork is with an [...]
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
For a while now I have been a fan of sites like mappr and flyr which allow you to integrate Google Maps with your Flickr photo collections. They offer me a chance to present students with elements of my fieldwork in cartographic form relatively easily. Still, a lot of work is required because, to be [...]
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
The title of the post may be somewhat overstated, but recent posts at Anthropology.net and Keats’ Telescope describe the peopling of North America via the British Columbia coast. The buzz comes from papers presented recently at the AAAS meetings. I’m not sure this theory is all that new … it has certainly been around since [...]
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
The ‘Forests & Oceans for the Future Discussion and News Blog’ has a useful summary of what British Columbia’s Forest and Range Agreements are. A history of the concept is also provided. Forest and Range Agreements are interim agreements between the Ministry of Forests and eligible First Nations designed to provide for “workable accommodation” of [...]
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
CBC.ca reports that Vancouver’s Stanley Park is getting new aboriginal carvings. Coast Salish artist Susan Point has been commissioned to carve an archway near the site of several totem poles by carvers from the north coast of British Columbia. The existing totem poles are a favorite place for tourist pictures, but local First Nations groups [...]
Saturday, February 18, 2006
I don’t blog enough on ‘local’ archaeology … but the find of 1,400 year old moccasin in the southwestern corner of the Yukon caught my eye. The moccasin was uncovered two and a half years ago and appears to be made of caribou hide. The article discusses briefly why the moccasin survived and it provides [...]
Saturday, February 18, 2006
Law professor Bill Sjostrom blogs about the the positive responses he got to his blogging activities during his tenure review. (Thanks Rob)
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