Brothers
The Politics of Violence among the Sekani of Northern British Columbia
- 256 pages
- 9 hours of reading
A provocative analysis of a nativist movement.The creation of a huge artificial lake in western Canada led to the flooding of prime hunting and trapping territory of the Sekani Indians thus depriving them of their traditional occupations and livelihood. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction and preliminary considerations; a day at McLeod Lake; population and economy; lower level relationships; political culture and its expressions; band organization in the early historic era; the influence of the fur trade; the politics of land ownership.
