Where Happiness Dwells: A History of the Dane-zaa First Nations

Where Happiness Dwells: A History of the Dane-zaa First Nations
ISBN-10
0774822988
ISBN-13
9780774822985
Category
Social Science
Pages
420
Language
English
Published
2013-02-27
Publisher
UBC Press
Authors
Robin Ridington, Jillian Ridington

Description

The Dane-zaa people have lived in BC's Peace River area for thousands of years. Elders documented their peoples' history and worldview, passing them on through storytelling. Language loss, however, threatens to break the bonds of knowledge transmission. At the request of the Doig River First Nations, anthropologists Robin and Jillian Ridington present a history of the Dane-zaa people based on oral histories collected over a half century of fieldwork. These powerful stories not only preserve traditional knowledge for future generations, they also tell the inspiring story of how the Dane-zaa learned to succeed and flourish in the modern world.

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