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Preston, Andrew Christopher Dulmage.

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Traveling the trail of self-determination, or "the path the people walk": Environmental practice, state sovereignty, and Lutselk'e Dene's place in Northwest Territories, Canada.

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Title/Author:	Traveling the trail of self-determination, or "the path the people walk": Environmental practice, state sovereignty, and Lutselk'e Dene's place in Northwest Territories, Canada./
Author:	Preston, Andrew Christopher Dulmage.
Description:	370 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-07, Section: A, page: 2591.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International70-07A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3365398
ISBN:	9781109253245

Traveling the trail of self-determination, or "the path the people walk": Environmental practice, state sovereignty, and Lutselk'e Dene's place in Northwest Territories, Canada.
Preston, Andrew Christopher Dulmage.

Traveling the trail of self-determination, or "the path the people walk": Environmental practice, state sovereignty, and Lutselk'e Dene's place in Northwest Territories, Canada. - 370 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-07, Section: A, page: 2591.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2009.

Over the last two decades the Canadian state has presided over the elaboration of an extensive environmental regime in Northwest Territories (NWT) constituted by various environmental processes, institutions and projects. The regime's elaboration is connected to the spread of global discourses of environmentally sustainable development, the discovery and development of diamonds in NWT, and the Canadian state's unease with its ability to project and sustain its authority in the North. The institution of this regime has spatialized NWT as an ecologically modern landscape, so facilitating the performance of Canada's sovereignty there. However, this ecologically modern landscape of sovereign Canadian territory is not the only landscape in the area. Lutselk'e Dene, an Aboriginal (Dene suline) group living on Great Slave Lake, believe themselves to be the rightful authority in the part of NWT they inhabit. They represent it as Akaitcho Territory, a landscape of roots and routes, of medicine and healing, of power and knowledge, of willful and knowing beings, and a place where their Creator intended them to live according to Dene Ch'anie, the Dene Way, or "the path the people walk".

ISBN: 9781109253245Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

Traveling the trail of self-determination, or "the path the people walk": Environmental practice, state sovereignty, and Lutselk'e Dene's place in Northwest Territories, Canada.
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520 $a Over the last two decades the Canadian state has presided over the elaboration of an extensive environmental regime in Northwest Territories (NWT) constituted by various environmental processes, institutions and projects. The regime's elaboration is connected to the spread of global discourses of environmentally sustainable development, the discovery and development of diamonds in NWT, and the Canadian state's unease with its ability to project and sustain its authority in the North. The institution of this regime has spatialized NWT as an ecologically modern landscape, so facilitating the performance of Canada's sovereignty there. However, this ecologically modern landscape of sovereign Canadian territory is not the only landscape in the area. Lutselk'e Dene, an Aboriginal (Dene suline) group living on Great Slave Lake, believe themselves to be the rightful authority in the part of NWT they inhabit. They represent it as Akaitcho Territory, a landscape of roots and routes, of medicine and healing, of power and knowledge, of willful and knowing beings, and a place where their Creator intended them to live according to Dene Ch'anie, the Dene Way, or "the path the people walk".
520 $a Based on 20 months of fieldwork, this dissertation both explores the nature of the Dene landscape and the understandings they have of themselves in relation to it, and connects these to their efforts to produce satisfying identities, create acceptable forms of development, and establish authority over the land they claim as their own; in other words, to their on-going project of self-determination. I argue that Lutselk'e Dene self-determination involves the (re)production of a landscape they find meaningful and the (re)creation of satisfying relationships to this landscape, as well as having this landscape and these relationships recognized by developers and the Canadian state. I also suggest that while state-sponsored environmentalism has historically compromised Lutselk'e Dene self-determination, and in many respects continues to do so, Lutselk'e Dene have taken advantage of the recent development of the environmental regime in NWT to push their multi-faceted self-determination project ahead.
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