From the National Post: Six months after announcing massive cost overruns had forced his company to suspend construction at the Galore Creek copper-gold mine, the president and chief executive of NovaGold Resources Inc. said a fresh set of plans contemplates a mine with an even greater mineral output. More to follow, I’m sure. See also: [...]
The opposition to Shell Canada’s plans to explore for coal-bed methane in the headwaters of the Nass, Skeena, and Stikine Rivers ramped up this past weekend. A rally in Hazelton (Gitksan territory) attracted four hundred opponents to Shell’s drilling project. I suspect the pressure on Shell will continue to grow throughout the summer despite the [...]
John Alderete (SFU Linguistics) and I have published an annotated bibliography of Tahltan language materials in the open access Northwest Journal of Linguistics. Abstract: This bibliography lists and summarizes materials on the Tahltan language, including linguistic and anthropological research papers, dictionaries, collections of stories, and teaching materials. We hope that the bibliography will give language [...]
The Union of BC Indian Chiefs announces the completion of its digital collection of historical resources. The following are found in the collection: Unity: Newsletter published from 1970 to 1971 Nesika: Newsletter published from 1972 to 1977 UBCIC News: Newsletter published form 1977 to 1980 UBCIC Posters: Posters created in the 1970s to present day [...]
Advertizements for retailer Digital Communications on the Team 1040 radio in Vancouver say their cellphones and other wireless products are perfect for my ‘wireless lifestyle.’ What is a wireless lifestyle? If I have wireless internet in my house and a cell phone, do I live a wireless lifestyle? Ethnographers, please … weigh in … Further [...]
Northern BC ca. 1942 Originally uploaded by TFM Update: This photograph was taken in Woodcock, British Columbia. Woodcock is a stop on the CNR line just west of Kitwanga. There was a telegraph relay station there and it seems reasonable that my grandfather was there because of the telegraph. I have posted several pictures of [...]
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