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Our Box Was Full - An Ethnography for the Delgamuukw Plaintiffs (Paperback, New Ed)
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Our Box Was Full - An Ethnography for the Delgamuukw Plaintiffs (Paperback, New Ed)
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For the Gitksan and Witsuwit'en peoples of northwest British
Columbia, the land is invested with meaning that goes beyond simple
notions of property or sustenance. Considered both a food box and a
storage box of history and wealth, the land plays a central role in
their culture, survival, history, and identity. In Our Box Was
Full, Richard Daly explores the centrality of this notion in the
determination of Aboriginal rights with particular reference to the
landmark Delgamuukw case that occupied the British Columbia courts
from 1987 to 1997. Called as an expert witness for the Aboriginal
plaintiffs, Daly, an anthropologist, was charged with helping the
Gitksan and Witsutwit'en to "prove they existed," and to make the
case for Aboriginal self-governance. In order to do this, Daly
spent several years documenting their institutions, system of
production and exchange, dispute settlement, and proprietorship
before Pax Britannica and colonization. His conclusions, which were
originally rejected by Justice MacEachern, were that the plaintiffs
continue to live out their rich and complex heritage today albeit
under very different conditions from those of either the
pre-contact or fur trade eras. Our Box Was Full provides
fascinating insight into the Delgamuukw case and sheds much-needed
light on the role of anthropology in Aboriginal rights litigation.
A rich, compassionate, and original ethnographic study, the book
situates the plaintiff peoples within the field of forager studies,
and emphasizes the kinship and gift exchange features that pervade
these societies even today. It will find an eager audience among
scholars and students of anthropology, Native studies, law, and
history.
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