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Author Ridington, Robin, 1939-

Title Where happiness dwells : a history of the Dane-zaa First Nations / Robin Ridington and Jillian Ridington ; in collaboration with elders of the Dane-zaa First Nations
Published Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 402 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Preface, with Linguistic Note and Pronunciation Guide -- Introduction: Trails of Time -- 1. The Dane-zaa Creation Story -- 2. Tsááyaa, the Culture Hero -- 3. Shin kaa, the Vision Quest -- 4. Archaeology, Prehistory, and Oral History -- 5. The Early Fur Trade -- 6. The Later Fur Trade and the Hudson's Bay Company Killings -- 7. Priests and Dreamers -- 8. The First and Last Dreamers -- 9. Kinship and Community -- 10. The 1899 North West Mounted Police Census and Treaty 8 -- 11. Seasonal Rounds in British Columbia and Alberta -- 12. The 1918 Flu Epidemic -- 13. Losing Suu Na chii k'chige, the Great Fire, and Petersen's Crossing -- 14. The Place Where Happiness Dwells, Indian Reserve 172 -- 15. Today and Tomorrow -- 16. Dane-zaa Stories and the Anthropological Literature
Summary "The Dane-zaa people have lived in the Peace River area of northern British Columbia for thousands of years. Elders documented the people's history and worldview in oral narratives and passed on their knowledge through storytelling. Language loss in the youngest generation, however, threatens to break the bonds of knowledge transmission. At the request of the Doig River First Nation, anthropologists Robin and Jillian Ridington present a history of the Dane-zaa people based on oral histories collected over a half century of fieldwork. Taking a poetic form that does justice to the rhythm of Dane-zaa storytelling, these powerful stories span the full length of history, from the story of creation to the fur trade, from the arrival of missionaries to cases heard in the Supreme Court of Canada. Elders document key events as they explain the very nature of the universe and how people and animals learned to live together on the land. These oral histories, told by one of the last First Nations to experience the effects of colonialism, not only preserve traditional knowledge for future generations, they also tell the inspiring story of how the Dane-zaa learned to succeed in the modern world"--Publisher's description
Analysis Doig River First Nation
Blueberry River First Nation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Blueberry River First Nation
Doig River First Nation
Oral history -- Peace River Region (B.C. and Alta.)
Oral tradition -- Peace River Region (B.C. and Alta.)
Tsattine Indians -- Peace River Region (B.C. and Alta.) -- Interviews
Tsattine Indians -- Peace River Region (B.C. and Alta.) -- History
HISTORY -- Canada -- General.
Oral history
Oral tradition
Tsattine Indians
Blueberry River First Nation
Doig River First Nation
Canada -- Peace River Region
Genre/Form Electronic books
interviews.
History
Interviews
Interviews.
Interviews.
Form Electronic book
Author Ridington, Jillian, 1936-
Doig River First Nation.
Blueberry River First Nation.
LC no. cn2012907099
ISBN 9780774822978
077482297X
9780774822954
0774822953
9780774822961
0774822961