OnlineUniversities.com has published a list of 100 anthropology blogs. It’s a neat list and a great resource.
The British Columbia government has announced a two year moratorium on exploring for coal bed methane in the Klappan (Sacred Headwaters) of northwest BC. Not surprisingly, the Tahltan express pleasure with the announcement. The Canadian Press reports that Shell and the Tahltan reached the moratorium (together, presumably?). Sphere: Related Content
Gull Eating Salmon Originally uploaded by TFM I enjoy fall in Vancouver largely because of the opportunities to see wildlife. Salmon run and spawn in several area rivers in October and November. Hoy Creek, next to Douglas College in Coquitlam, has a run of chum and coho salmon peaking in October. Hyde Creek, also in [...]
The Yale First Nation stepped closer to completing a treaty with BC and Canada. Yesterday, Yale and BC signed an understanding that their negotiations were finished. Talks with Canada continue over fishing and land-related issues. Sphere: Related Content
I don’t have time to formulate my own review right now … suffice it to say I have appreciated the frankness of Widdowson and Howard’s Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry. The questions they ask about aboriginal poverty, its reasons and solutions to it should be asked — even if (especially if) they generate widely disparate answers. [...]
BigCityLib Strikes Back blogs on Widdowson and Howard’s views about traditional knowledge. In doing so, some evaluation of Wente’s article is offered. (Hat Tip)
Frances Widdowson and co-author Albert Howard distanced themselves today from Margaret Wente’s column about aboriginal savagery. Wente had cited Widdowson and Howard at length her her article supporting Dick Pound’s ‘pay du sauvage’ remark. Sphere: Related Content
My Anthropology of Canada’s First Nations discussed the Dick Pound savagery issue in class today. I asked them to read Margaret Wente’s Globe and Mail column and Iain Hunter’s Victoria Times Colonist column. I then asked them to develop rebuttals to to Wente where warranted and to offer support for her point of view when [...]
And Even More News: Indigenous cultures rivalled those of civilizations around the globe (Globe and Mail) Call off the ignoble savaging of Margaret Wente and Dick Pound (National Post) (Includes links to a facebook group against Wente; makes the observation that savages might be noble while forgetting that the term savage does not always refer [...]
The Hul’qumi’num Treaty Group (southern Vancouver Island) is going to Washington DC to argue its rights have been violated before Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. At heart: the slow place of land claims and outstanding grievances related to uncompensated land expropriations for a railroad in the 1880s. The HTG will be heard next week. See: [...]
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