Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 333 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits |
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Nature, history, society |
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Nature, history, society.
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Contents |
Foreword: The enigmatic North / Graeme Wynn -- Introduction: Wildlife and Canadian history -- Making space for wood bison -- Control on the range -- Pastoral dreams -- The polar ox -- La foule! La foule! -- To save the wild caribou -- The caribou crisis |
Summary |
"In the late nineteenth century, to the alarm of government conservationists, the North American plains bison population collapsed. Yet large herds of other big game animals still roamed the Northwest Territories, and Aboriginal people depended on them for food and clothing." "Hunters at the Margin examines the conflict in the Northwest Territories between Native hunters and conservationists over three big game species: the wood bison, the muskox, and the caribou. John Sandlos argues that the introduction of game regulations, national parks, and game sanctuaries was central to the assertion of state authority over the traditional hunting cultures of the Dene and Inuit. His archival research undermines the assumption that conservationists were motivated solely by enlightened preservationism, revealing instead that commercial interests were integral to wildlife management in Canada."--Jacket |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-323) and index |
Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Wildlife conservation -- Northwest Territories -- History -- 20th century
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Wildlife conservation -- Government policy -- Canada -- History -- 20th century
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Subsistence hunting -- Northwest Territories -- History -- 20th century
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Big game hunting -- Northwest Territories -- History -- 20th century
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Indigenous peoples -- Hunting -- Northwest Territories -- History -- 20th century
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NATURE -- Animals -- Wildlife.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biological Diversity.
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Native peoples -- Hunting -- Northwest Territories -- History -- 20th century.
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Big game hunting
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Subsistence hunting
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Wildlife conservation
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Wildlife conservation -- Government policy
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Canada
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Northwest Territories
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2007532621 |
ISBN |
9780774855884 |
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0774855886 |
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1282593609 |
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9781282593602 |
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9786612593604 |
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6612593601 |
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