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Finding Dahshaa: Self-Government, Social Suffering, and Aboriginal Policy in Canada Hardcover - 2009

by Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox


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Just as dahshaa - a rare type of dried, rotted spruce wood - is essential to the moosehide-tanning process in Dene culture, self-determination and the alleviation of social suffering are necessary to Indigenous survival in Northwest Territories. But is self-government an effective path to self-determination? Finding Dahshaa shows where self-government negotiations between Canada and the Dehcho, Dln, and Inuvialuit and Gwich'in peoples have gone wrong and offers, through descriptions of tanning practices that embody principles and values central to self-determination, an alternative model for negotiations. This book, which includes a foreword by Dene National Chief Bill Erasmus, is the first ethnographic study of self-government negotiations in Canada.

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Just as dahshaa--a rare type of dried, rotted spruce wood--is essential to the Dene mossehide-tanning process, self-determinationa nd 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.

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  • Title Finding Dahshaa: Self-Government, Social Suffering, and Aboriginal Policy in Canada
  • Author Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 216
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, BC, Canada
  • Date 2009
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780774816243 / 0774816244
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: Native American
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Aboriginal/Native Studies
  • Library of Congress subjects Indigenous peoples - Northwest Territories -, Indigenous peoples - Northwest Territories -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009502479
  • Dewey Decimal Code 323.119

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Citations

  • Reference and Research Bk News, 11/01/2009, Page 63

About the author

Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox holds a doctorate in polar studies from Cambridge University and for the past decade has worked for Indigenous peoples on self-government and related political development processes in Canada's Northwest Territories.

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