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Reserve Memories: The Power of the Past in a Chilcotin Community (Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians)

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Reserve Memories examines how myths and narratives about the past have enabled a Northern Athabaskan community to be aware and confront challenges and opportunities in the present. For over five centuries the Chilcotin people have lived in relative isolation in the rich timberlands and scattered meadows of the inland Northwest, in what is today referred to as west central British Columbia. Even if linguistic and cultural changes are escalating, they remain probably the most more traditional and little known Native communities in northwestern North The us.

Combining years of fieldwork with an acute theoretical point of view, David W. Dinwoodie sheds light on the special power of the past for the Chilcotin people of the Nemiah Valley Indian Reserve. In different social and political settings, they draw upon a “reserve” of memories-in particular, myths and historical narratives-and reactivate them so as to help in making sense of and deal effectively with the possibilities and problems of the modern world. As an example, the declaration of the Chilcotins against clear-cut logging draws upon one of their central myths, adding a deeper and more lasting cultural significance and resonance to the political remark.

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