Finding Dahshaa: Self-Government, Social Suffering, and Aboriginal Policy in Canada

By Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox

Book Overview

Just as dahshaa--a rare type of dried, rotted spruce wood--is essential to the Dene moosehide-tanning process, self-determination and the alleviation of social suffering are necessary to Indigenous survival in the Northwest Territories. Finding Dahshaa shows where self-government negotiations between Canada and the Dehcho, D l n , and Inuvialuit and Gwich'in peoples have gone wrong and offers an alternative model for negotiations through descriptions of tanning practices that embody the principles and values of self-determination.

An informed and passionate account, with a foreword by Dene National Chief Bill Erasmus, Finding Dahshaa is the first ethnographic study of self-government negotiations
in Canada.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774816252
• ISBN13: 9780774816250
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.8"