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Before the Roads, Before the Mines: Denesuliné Memories, Narratives, and the Legacy of a Northern Hunting Society

Contributor(s): Jarvenpa, Robert (Author)

ISBN: 9781496239747

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press

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Pub Date: October 1, 2024

Dewey: 971.2004972

LCCN: 2024011352

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.81" H x 9.00" L x 6.00" W ( 1.33 lbs) 294 pages

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Description: Anthropologist Robert Jarvenpa examines how the energy and extraction industries in Canada's subarctic north threatens destruction of traditional southern Denesuliné cultural practices, land, and sovereignty near the Churchill River headwaters in northern Saskatchewan.

Review Quotes: "This book will appeal strongly to those familiar with northern or Indigenous histories, experienced in ethnohistorical studies, or immersed in oral history."--Heather Green, H-Environment

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