Self Government, Social Suffering, and Aboriginal Policy in Canada Self-government negotiations between Canada and the Dehcho, Délįnę, Inuvialuit, and Gwich’in

New Publication/Book Launch

 

The launch of the book Finding Dahshaa by Stephanie Iribacher-Fox will take place Saturday, 11 July 2009, from 3:30-5:30pm at the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre in Yellowknife, NT, Canada, in conjunction with the International Congress of Circumpolar Health.

 

Irlbacher-Fox, Stephanie, 2009. Finding Dahshaa: Self Government, Social
Suffering, and Aboriginal Policy in Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press.

 

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, Délįnę, 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.

 

For more information on this publication, please visit:

 

http://findingdahshaa.ca/

http://www.ubcpress.ca/

 

For more information on the International Congress of Circumpolar Health, please visit: http://icch2009.com/

 

--  Via / thanks to:
Northern Research Network
research.north@gmail.com
http://northernresearchnetwork.electrified.ca