Temagami's tangled wild
Subtitle: race, gender, and the making of Canadian nature
By: Jocelyn Thorpe ; foreword by Graeme Wynn
Series: Nature, history, society; Nature, history, society
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Vancouver
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780774822008
Subjects: Race relations; Ojibwa (Indiens); Government relations; Nature; Ojibwa Indians; Aspect social; Land use; Histoire; Utilisation du Sol; History; Temagami First Nation; Relations raciales; Première nation de Temagami; Relations avec l'État; Écologie sociale; Social ecology
Description: "Temagami's Tangled Wild traces the processes and power relationships through which the Temagami area of northeastern Ontario has become emblematic of Canadian wilderness. In this sophisticated analysis, Jocelyn Thorpe uncovers how struggles over meaning, racialized and gendered identities, and land have made Temagami into a site of wild Canadian nature. Despite the fact that the Teme-Augama Anishnabai have for many generations understood the region as their homeland rather than as a wilderness, the forestry and tourism industries, as well as Canadian law, have refused to acknowledge this claim. Instead, the concept of wilderness has been employed to aid in Aboriginal dispossession and to create a home for non-Aboriginal Canadians on Native land. An eloquent critique and engaging history, Temagami's Tangled Wild challenges readers to acknowledge how colonial relations are embedded in our notions of wilderness, and to reconsider our understanding of the wilderness ideal."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-179) and index.

Issued also in electronic format.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1.Tangled Wild; title: 2.Timber Nature; title: 3.Virgin Territory for the Sportsman; title: 4.A Rocky Reserve; title: 5.Legal Landscapes.