I never know quite to make of studies like this. In the current issue of IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, two researchers assert that the skills required for surfing the internet — including navigation skills — are more apparent in men. They connect this ability to our ancestry as hunters. From CTV.ca:
The [...]
Sarah Palin’s record of trying to overturn subsistence hunting and fishing laws is attracting some attention. Her views are a beautiful example of the middle class construction of wilderness, that wilderness is simply for recreation, something to be enjoyed in short bursts, or exploited to exhaustion. There appears to be no place for [...]
This story fascinates me — both for reasons of human interest and aboriginal rights. DNA testing has identified seventeen living relatives of an aboriginal hunter who died perhaps three hundred years ago. His remains were frozen in glacial ice in northern BC in the territory of the Champagne-Aishihik First Nations (Athapaskan). The [...]
The Whale Hunt presents Jonathan Harris’ experience among Inuipiat Eskimos of Barrow Alaska in stunning photography and a unique, narrative-driven interface. From Harris’ statement:
The purpose of this project was threefold:
First, to experiment with a new interface for human storytelling. The photographs are presented in a framework that tells the moment-to-moment story of the whale [...]
I am sometimes asked for evidence to support the idea that aboriginal people in BC continue to face ignorance because they assert traditions based on hunting. It appears that there is a lot of evidence of this fact coming from Northgate officials in the wake of the failure of Kemess North mine to gain [...]
I successfully defended my dissertation at the University of New Mexico last month. Now, the final edits on the text are done.
For those who might be interested, my dissertation is now available for download (1MB pdf file). (It will be available eventually via ProQuest Dissertations. The graduates in my year [...]
In-SHUCK-ch’s Space links to an article from the New Leader describing the testimony an expert witness arguing that the right of the Cowichan (Coast Salish; Southern Vancouver Island near Duncan, BC) to hunt is critical because hunting provides food for people in the group. Joe Bartleman is testifying in a case of illegal hunting [...]
A fascinating story about changing caribou hunting techniques appeared in Canoe News’s science section. The article suggests that aboriginal hunting generally — and changing views of animals and high powered rifles specifically — is contributing to significant declines in caribou numbers in the Northwest Territories. Aboriginal hunting may be affecting the numbers more [...]
The Supreme Court of Canada ruled today in a case about aboriginal hunting and treaty rights on Vancouver Island. Two Tsartlip (Coast Salish; Southern Vancouver Island) men were convicted under the BC Wildlife Act of hunting with the aid of a light after they shot a decoy deer at night. In the ruling [...]
Doug Struck at the Washington Post writes another story this week about climate and culture change in the Canadian arctic. (Previous story here about a new arctic park; my blog post here.) Struck’s current story describes the decreasing feasibility of sustenance hunting.
Peter Taptuna, the manager of the local hunting association, is [...]
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