Itineraries of Exchange: Cultural Contact in a Global Frame
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Linc Kesler
Larry Grant
Coll Thrush
Neil Safier
Shaunee Casavant
Nika Collison
Tirso Gonzaez
Sheryl Lightfoot
Description
Webcast of Global Encounters Initiative Symposium called Itineraries of Exchange: Cultural Contact in a Global Frame held at the University of British Columbia, March 4-6, 2010. Panel discussion begins at 36:41.
Duration: 2:24:18.
BC Studies, no. 115/116, Native Peoples and Colonialism, Autumn/Winter, 1997/1998, pp. 45-82
Description
Examines the current scholarship of colonialism by looking at three aspects of Northwest coast history: geopolitical recording and transposition of information, the introduction and distribution of disease, and the profits of fur trade.
Summarizes interviews held with Anishinabek (Ojibway and Odawa) First Nations of northern Ontario which show the importance of culture in everyday life.