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Reading Life with Gwichin

This book is based upon more than two years of ethnographic fieldwork and personal experiences with the Teetit Gwichin community in northern Canada. The author provides insight into Gwichin understandings of life as well as into historical and political processes that have taken place in the North. He outlines the development of an educational approach towards conducting ethnography and writing anthropological literature, starting with the premise you have to live it. The book focuses on ways of knowing and collaboration through learning and being taught by interlocutors. Building on the work of Tim Ingold, Loovers investigates the notion of reading life land, water, and weather as well as texts and analyses the reading of texts as acts of conversations or correspondences.

Jan Peter Laurens Loovers (PhD, University of Aberdeen) is Project Curator for the Arctic Exhibition at The British Museum (UK) and Honorary Research Fellow at University of Aberdeen (Scotland, UK). He has worked with Indigenous peoples across the globe, but most extensively with Gwichin in northern Canada. His topics of interest are ecology, education, humananimal relations, Indigenous rights, literacy, philosophy, and resource extraction amongst others. He is co-editor of Dogs in the North (Routledge, 2018).

Arctic Worlds

Communities, Political Ecology and Ways of Knowing

Series Editors: David Anderson and Robert J. Losey

This series aims to integrate research from across the circumpolar Arctic from across the humanities, social sciences, and history of science. This region once exotised as a remote and unknown blank spot is now acknowledged to be the homeland of a variety of indigenous nations, many of whom have won or are seeking home rule.

The Arctic was the central axis of frozen confrontation during the Cold War. At the start of the 21st century it is a resource hinterland offering supplies of petroleum and minerals for aggressively new markets with great cost and risk to the environment. The indigenous nations of the region are unique for their ways of knowing, which approach animals and landscape as alive, sentient entities. Many share cultural commonalities across the Arctic Ocean, sketching out a human community that unites disparate continents.

This series takes history seriously by bringing together archaeological work on ancient Arctic societies with ethnohistorical studies of the alternate idioms by which time and meaning are understood by circumpolar peoples, as well as science and technology studies of how the region is perceived by various scientific communities.

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Communication and Personhood in East Greenland

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Dogs in the North

Stories of Cooperation and Co-Domestication

Edited by Robert J. Losey, Robert P. Wishart, and Jan Peter Laurens Loovers

Reading Life with Gwichin

An Educational Approach

Jan Peter Laurens Loovers

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Edited by Clinton N. Westman, Tara L. Joly, and Lena Gross

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Reading Life with Gwichin

An Educational Approach

Jan Peter Laurens Loovers

First published 2020

by Routledge

2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

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2020 Jan Peter Laurens Loovers

The right of Jan Peter Laurens Loovers to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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ISBN: 978-1-138-61669-1 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-429-46188-0 (ebk)

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by Deanta Global Publishing Services, Chennai, India

To my teachers

Contents

PART I
Introduction to an educational approach

PART II
A sentient history

PART III
Losing elders, keeping life going

PART IV
Life on the land

Map of Bear Creek

Gwichin Settlement Area

Linda MacCarnells portrait of Neil Colin

Neil Colins cabin at Mouth of the Peel

Alexander Murrays sketch of Gwichin dance

Alexander Murrays sketch of setting up a trading post on the Yukon River and his sketch of Fort Yukon

Alexander Murrays sketch of Gwichyaa Gwichin leader Saveeah

Congregation of Loucheux [Gwichin] Indians evangelized by Archdeacon McDonald

The Rev. Robert McDonald

Archdeacon Robert McDonald and Bishop I. O. Stringer [before 1913]

Bishop Stringer with Rev. Julius Kendi with family

NWMP Dog Patrol leaving Fort McPherson

Treaty 11 signatories (left to right): Simon Dizik, Rev. John Marten, Ben Kunnezzi, Christopher Colin, Corporal Wilson RCMP, Old Robert, Johnnie Kay, Fred Tuth, Chief Julius [Salu], L.A. Giroux, Old William Vittrewka, Charlie Snowshoe, Abraham Francis

Richard Slobodin with Alfred Bonnetplume, 1946

Gladys Alexie discussing Gwichin place names in Aberdeen

Inside school room at Hay River

Gwichin language teacher Mary Effie Snowshoe teaching traditional skills

St Matthews Church in Fort McPherson with graveyard in the front

William Teya fixes a fish net in front of the mission house in Fort McPherson. Behind him stand David Charlie and John Charlie

Abe Stewart Juniors backyard with cord of wood and squared logs

Caribou trails in Hurricane Valley

Snowmobile with blazed trail marker

Lobstick at Bear Creek

Writing a book can be a tedious and perplexing enterprise, but acknowledging all those that have made it possible is equally challenging. Spanning over twelve years, it is impossible to thank all those that have been part during different stages of this books journey. There are those at the University of Aberdeen, those at other academic and research institutions, those at conferences and seminars, those that offered financial support, and those closest to me: friends, family, and collaborators in the Netherlands, Canada, Scotland, and elsewhere. In my PhD thesis I have provided a much longer list and my appreciations continue to the same individuals and families.

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