Lecture 6: Hunter gathers or Trapper Harvesters? Flashcards
Inuit peoples have to hunt and fish in order to eat, as the price of “main-stream” food is extremely high
- 58 USD for ketchup
4. 49 USD for a can of soup
The knowing and being within the Inuit culture is called
Qaujimajatuqangit
Why trap?
More animals for every unit time
A hunter hunts to stustain his life and his family, a Trapper traps for…
Money
Canada fur trade contributes roughly 1 billion to the canadian economy. (higher than forestery)
out of the 50,000 trappers in canada.
There is roughly 25,000 Aborignal peoples
Most aborignal peoples see trapping as a subset of hunting, which is, itself intergral to our culture
The white man thinks that it is a imported, indivgual, specific activity.
It is commercial
To take this back to administrative categories and issues of identify.
Languages has been used as a tool of erosion of indigenous rights.
Much like who we are as a people.
language can also be used as a vechical for the assertion of rights
Erosion of indigenious rights,
The means of attempting to erase the Indigenous culture as a whole.
To take this back to administrative categories and issues of identify.
Languages has been used as a tool of erosion of indigenous rights.
Much like who we are as a people.
language can also be used as a vechical for the assertion of rights
Erosion of indigenious rights,
The means of attempting to erase the Indigenous culture as a whole.
