Finding Dahshaa : self-government, social suffering, and Aboriginal policy in Canada

Type

Book

Authors

Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox ( Irlbacher-Fox, Stephanie )

ISBN 10

0774816244

ISBN 13

9780774816243

Tags

Indigenous Peoples -- Northwest Territories -- Politics and Government, Indigenous Peoples -- Northwest Territories -- Government Relations, Indigenous Peoples -- Northwest Territories -- Social Conditions, Indigenous self-government -- Canada, Indigenous self-government, Indigenous peoples -- Politics and government, Indigenous peoples -- Government relations, Indigenous peoples -- Social conditions, Dene, Dehcho, Délînê, Inuvialuit, Inuit, Gwich'in, Northwest Territories

Abstract

"Just as dahshaa--a rare type of dried, rotted spruce wood--is essential to the Dene moosehide-tanning process, self-determination and the alleviation of social suffering are necessary to Indigenous survival in the Northwest Territories. Finding Dahshaa shows where self-government negotiations between Canada and the Dehcho, Délînê, and Inuvialuit and Gwich’in peoples have gone wrong and offers an alternative model for negotiations through descriptions of tanning practices that embody the principles and values of self-determination.

An informed and passionate account, with a foreword by Dene National Chief Bill Erasmus, Finding Dahshaa is the first ethnographic study of self-government negotiations in Canada."--Amazon.

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