For the Gitksan and Witsuwit’en peoples of northwest British Columbia, the land is invested with meaning that goes beyond simple notions of property or sustenance. Considered both a food box and a storage box of history and wealth, the land plays a central role in their culture, survival, history, and identity. In Our Box Was Full, Richard Daly explores the centrality of this notion in the determination of Aboriginal rights with particular reference to the landmark Delgamuukw case that occupied the British Columbia courts from 1987 to 1997.
Record details
ISBN:0774810750 (pbk.) :
ISBN:9780774810753 (pbk.) :
Physical Description:xxix, 352 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. print
Publisher:Vancouver, BC : UBC Press, c2005.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-336) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
The reciprocities of a pole-raising feast -- A giving environment: nutrition and seasonal round -- A kinship economy -- Production management and social hierarchy -- Gifts, exchange, and trade -- Owners and stewards -- Epilogue -- Afterword: Back to the future.
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