Ts'msyen People and their Neighbours -ANTH 403E - 502B

 

Course Description

Ts'msyen peoples have lived on BC's north coast for at least ten millennia. This course takes the perspective of indigenous scholarship to examine the historical and contemporary social, cultural, and economic organization of the Ts'msyen and their neighbours. Particular attention will be given to social relations with non-Ts'msyen (such as Tlingit, Haida, K'amksiwah –non-Indigenous peoples) historically and in the contemporary period as it relates to questions of land and marine resource ownership and management and the processes whereby the Ts’msyen have asserted and maintained sovereignty. Graduate students wishing to take this course should enroll in ANTH 502B. Undergraduates should enroll in ANTH 403E.

Course Outline

Downloadable course outline

Required Textbooks

• Roth. Becoming Tsimshian: The Social Life of Names. Univ. of Washington Press. 2008.
• Thornton. Being and Place Amoung the Tlingit Univ. of Washington Press 2007.
• Anderson(Sequin) and Halpin. Potlatch at Gitsegukla UBC Press 2000.
• Menzies. Traditional Ecological Knoweldge and Natural Resource Management Nebraska University Press 2006.
• Harris. Landing Native Fisheries UBC Press 2008.
• Fedje and Mathewes. Haida Gwaii: Human History and Environment UBC Press 2005.
• Robinson. Monkey Beach Random House
• Hayes. Blonde Indian Arizona

Lax Kw'alaams Fishing Case

• Anderson Report
• Lovisek Report
• MacDonald Report
• Von Gernet Report
• Supreme Court Decision
• Court transcripts; Anderson
• Court transcripts; Lovisek
• Court transcripts; G. MacDonald

Additional Resources

Anthropology and Society. Podcasts of presentations made by Charles Menzies on a variety of topics. Some of the items may have relevance for the course. To access a podcast of available presentations copy this URL http://www.ecoknow.ca/podcast/rss.xml and paste it into your podcast software application or click here to select individual talks.