Hunters and Bureaucrats: Power, Knowledge, and Aboriginal-State Relations in the Southwest Yukon

329 Pages·2003·7.223 MB·English

by  Paul Nadasdy

Hunters and Bureaucrats
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Paul Nadasdy
Hunters and Bureaucrats:
Power, Knowledge, and
Aboriginal-State Relations
in the Southwest Yukon
© UBC Press 2003
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National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication Data
Nadasdy, Paul.
Hunters and bureaucrats : power, knowledge, and aboriginal-state relations
in the southwest Yukon / Paul Nadasdy.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7748-0983-3
1. Indians of North America – Yukon Territory – Government relations. I. Title.
E78.Y8N32 2003 971.9′100497 C2003-911105-9
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program of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry
Development Program (BPIDP), and of the Canada Council for the Arts, and
the British Columbia Arts Council.
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Burwash Landing, Yukon
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Contents
Illustrations / viii
Acknowledgments / x
Introduction/ 1
1 Aboriginal-State Relations in Kluane Country: An Overview/ 27
2 “It’s Not Really ‘Knowledge’ at All, It’s More a Way of Life”/ 60
3 The Politics of TEK: Power and the Integration of Knowledge/ 114
4 Counting Sheep: The Ruby Range Sheep Steering Committee and the
Construction of Knowledge/ 147
5 Knowledge-Integration in Practice: The Case of the Ruby Range
Sheep Steering Committee/ 181
6 “Just Like Whitemen”: Property and Land Claims
in Kluane Country/ 222
Conclusion / 263
Notes / 271
References / 291
Index / 303
Illustrations
Maps
16 The Kluane Region, Yukon Territory
18 Languages spoken in the Yukon
164 Yukon Game Management Zone 5, with subzones
Photographs
13 Burwash Landing in summer. Photo by author.
13 Burwash Landing in winter. Photo by author.
14 Joe and Luke Johnson on Printers Creek above Kluane Lake.
Photo by author.
14 Joe Bruneau on the Kluane River. Photo by author.
30 Burwash Landing, 1922. Yukon Archives, C.B. Tidd Collection #7206.
33 The coming of the Alaska Highway. Burwash Landing, 1942. Yukon
Archives, R.A. Carter Collection #1515.
35 Douglas Dickson hunting by skidoo on Arch Creek. Photo by author.
41 Joe Bruneau and Bob Johnson on a trip up the Donjek River into Kluane
Park.Photo by author.
43 Our Lady of the Rosary Mission, Burwash Landing. Photo by author.
57 Sam Johnson, Sr., Moose Johnson, and Phil Temple (a local outWtter) in
1965.Photo from the private collection of Joe and Sandy Johnson.
69 Agnes Johnson Wshing for whiteWsh at Long’s Creek. Photo by author.
69 Peter Johnson and Gerald Dickson preparing to set a Wshnet under the ice
on Kluane Lake. Photo by author.
70 Kathleen Johnson cleaning grayling at Swede Johnson Creek.
Photo by author.
70 Michael and Edward Johnson skinning a moose near hunting camp at
Mile 1120, Alaska Highway. Photo by author.
72 Dennis Dickson repairing his trapping cabin at Onion Creek.
Photo by author.
Illustrations ix
73 Kathleen, Edward, and Michael Johnson at hunting camp, Mile 1120,
Alaska Highway. Photo by author.
77 Lorraine Allen and Agnes Johnson cutting moose meat, Burwash
Landing.Photo by author.
107 Gerald Dickson on a moose lookout near the Donjek River. Photo by
author.
151 Dall rams. Government of Yukon photo.
152 Jimmy Johnson and Thomas Dickson with Dall sheep shot for food, ca.
1920.Yukon Archives, Jessie Joe Collection 92/26 #4.
153 Luke and Simon Johnson butchering Dall sheep above Koidern River.
Photo by author.
241 Sign on the Alaska Highway marking the boundary of Kluane First Nation
Traditional Territory. Photo by author.
255 Copper Joe and Gene Jacquot, date unknown. Yukon Archives, Their Own
Yukon Collection 00/37 #64.