A Heritage of Reciprocity

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-77
Author(s):  
Jon D. Daehnke
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
First Nations ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Cultural Revitalization ◽  
Indigenous Nations ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Indian Nation ◽  
Embodied Practice

Canoes, and the protocols attached to them, play a central role in cultural revitalization and resilience for many Indigenous nations of the Pacific Northwest. The revitalization of canoe culture is most visibly present in Tribal Journeys, a weeks-long paddle and gathering of Indigenous nations that annually brings together thousands of Native American/First Nations citizens. The Chinook Indian Nation has been an active and early participant in canoe resurgence in general, and Tribal Journeys specifically. For the Chinook, canoe protocols reflect a vision of “reciprocal heritage” that is located in embodied practice, is based in tribal cultural values of reciprocity and place, and is forward-looking. Perhaps most importantly, canoe culture and the performance of protocols occur explicitly outside of the framework of the colonial nation-state. In this sense the performance of protocol is not just an aspect of culture, it is fundamentally an act of decolonization.

Composition of native American fruits in the Pacific Northwest

1982 ◽  
Vol 81 (5) ◽  
pp. 568-572
Author(s):  
Patrick B. Keely ◽  
Charlene S. Martinsen ◽  
Eugene S. Hunn ◽  
Helen H. Norton
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
The Pacific

scholarly journals Keeping the World in Balance - Music Therapy in a Ritual Context

2002 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Kenny
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Northwest Coast ◽  
University Of British Columbia ◽  
Pacific Northwest Coast ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The People ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The University

I asked Walker why the Spirit Dances were held in the Winter. He told me that in the Winter the Earth's reserves are low, so the people must dance to create energy for the Earth during the Winter months. At the time I was a graduate student in anthropology at the University of British Columbia doing my field studies in the Salish Guardian Spirit Dance Ceremonials of the Pacific Northwest Coast (Kenny, 1982). Walker didn't seem to care as much about the academics as he cared about the fact that I was Native American myself. And he wanted to support my learning about healing and the arts. The Winter Dances, as the Salish people call them, are known for healing young adults in Pacific Northwest Coast Native societies who are not able to be cured by standard medical and psychological treatments (Kenny, 1982; Jilek, 1972).

Lexical acculturation, areal diffusion, lingua francas, and bilingualism

1996 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-282
Author(s):  
Cecil H. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Language Contact ◽  
Tierra Del Fuego ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Native American Languages ◽  
Lexical Borrowing ◽  
Pacific Northwest Coast ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The Pacific

ABSTRACTThis study continues an investigation of lexical acculturation in Native American languages using a sample of 292 language cases distributed from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego (Brown 1994). Focus is on the areal diffusion of native language words for imported European Objects and concepts. Approximately 80% of all sharing of such terms is found to occur among closely genetically related languages. Amerindian languages only distantly related, or not related at all, tend to share native labels for acculturated items only when these have diffused to them from a lingua franca, such as Chinook Jargon (a pidgin trade language of the Pacific Northwest Coast) or Peruvian Quechua (the language of the Inca empire). Lingua francas also facilitate diffusion of terms through genetically related languages; but sometimes, as in the case of Algonquian languages, these are neither familiar American pidgins nor languages associated with influential nation states. An explanatory framework is constructed around the proposal that degree of bilingualism positively influences extent of lexical borrowing. (Amerindian languages, bilingualism, language contact, lexical acculturation, lexical diffusion, lingua francas)

Indigenous perspectives of ecosystem-based management and co-governance in the Pacific Northwest: lessons for Aotearoa

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah-Jane Tiakiwai ◽  
Jonathan Timatanga Kilgour ◽  
Amy Whetu
Keyword(s):  
First Nations ◽  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
North Coast ◽  
Ecological Knowledge ◽  
New Governance ◽  
Ecosystem Based Management ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Indigenous Perspectives

This article presents a case study of the ecosystem-based management model embedded within British Columbia’s Marine Plan Partnership for the Pacific North Coast and the Great Bear Initiative. These are two distinct, yet linked, examples of resource management and economic development that use ecosystem-based management in a way that incorporates indigenous perspectives and aspirations. The model potentially provides a framework that other countries, including Aotearoa (New Zealand), could examine and adapt to their own contexts using new governance structures and working with indigenous perspectives that include traditional ecological knowledge and aspirations. The case study is presented from a Māori perspective that represents both an insider (indigenous) and outsider (non-First Nations) view.

The Pacific Northwest

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Native American History ◽  
Native Communities ◽  
Columbia Plateau ◽  
Cultural Legitimacy ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Us ◽  
Political Boundaries ◽  
Recent Trends

Despite decades of neglect by professional historians, the Pacific Northwest brings particular clarity to major themes in Native American history. On both sides of the Cascade Mountains and the US-Canadian border, Native communities have carried on the struggle for territorial integrity, political authority, economic viability, and cultural legitimacy that began in the late eighteenth century. Scholars, in turn, have broadened their studies temporally, culturally, and thematically to create a fuller picture of the region’s past. This chapter surveys recent trends in the ethnohistorical literature concerning the diverse indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast and Columbia Plateau. For the sake of brevity, it emphasizes three themes of particular salience in the Northwest: the porous character of cultural and political boundaries, the fluidity of racial and tribal identities, and the determination of Native nations to protect their ancestral lands and resources.

Paleoseismicity, Ecological Change, and Prehistoric Exploitation of Anadromous Fishes in the Salmon River Basin, Western Idaho, USA

2007 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 233-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loren G. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Normal Fault ◽  
Ecological Change ◽  
Salmon River ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Fluvial Response ◽  
Induced Changes ◽  
Salmon Fishery

By the middle Holocene, Native American groups developed semi-sedentary villages in the Columbia River basin of the Pacific Northwest. The economic basis for these villages is thought to have been predicated on the acquisition of bulk food resources, such as salmon and camas, for delayed consumption during the winter. In Idaho's lower Salmon River canyon, semi-sedentary pit house villages are absent until after 2000 14C yr BP. Floodplain geochronology shows channel incision and terrace formation occurred at ca. 2000 14C yr BP, caused by fluvial response to neotectonic displacement along a normal fault. The delayed appearance of pit house sites and other markers of the Winter Village Pattern in the canyon is argued to be directly related to neotectonically-induced changes in fluvial conditions after 2000 14C yr BP, which significantly improved aquatic habitats for anadromous fishes and led to the development of a predictable, productive salmon fishery.

scholarly journals Inferred origin of several Native American potatoes from the Pacific Northwest and Southeast Alaska using SSR markers

Euphytica ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 174 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linhai Zhang ◽  
Charles R. Brown ◽  
David Culley ◽  
Barbara Baker ◽  
Elizabeth Kunibe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Ssr Markers ◽  
Southeast Alaska ◽  
The Pacific
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