TY - BOOK ID - 78627031 TI - Dispersed but not destroyed AU - Labelle, Kathryn Magee AU - EBOUND Canada PY - 2013 SN - 077482557X 9780774825573 9780774825559 0774825553 9780774825566 0774825561 077482297X 9780774822978 9780774822954 0774822953 9780774822985 0774822988 9780774822961 0774822961 PB - Vancouver UBC Press DB - UniCat KW - Indians of North America KW - Wyandot Indians KW - Guyandot Indians KW - Huron Indians KW - Wanat Indians KW - Wandot Indians KW - Weinondot Indians KW - Wendat Indians KW - Wundat Indians KW - Wyandott Indians KW - Wyandotte Indians KW - Iroquoian Indians KW - History KW - Indigenous peoples KW - Wyandot KW - Tsattine Indians KW - Oral tradition KW - Oral history KW - History. KW - Doig River First Nation. KW - Blueberry River First Nation. KW - Oral biography KW - Tradition, Oral KW - Oral communication KW - Folklore KW - Beaver Indians KW - Dane-zaa Indians KW - Dreamer Indians KW - Dunne-za Indians KW - Dunneza Indians KW - Athapascan Indians KW - Methodology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78627031 AB - "The Dane-zaa people have lived in the Peace River area of northern British Columbia for thousands of years. Elders documented the people's history and worldview in oral narratives and passed on their knowledge through storytelling. Language loss in the youngest generation, however, threatens to break the bonds of knowledge transmission. At the request of the Doig River First Nation, anthropologists Robin and Jillian Ridington present a history of the Dane-zaa people based on oral histories collected over a half century of fieldwork. Taking a poetic form that does justice to the rhythm of Dane-zaa storytelling, these powerful stories span the full length of history, from the story of creation to the fur trade, from the arrival of missionaries to cases heard in the Supreme Court of Canada. Elders document key events as they explain the very nature of the universe and how people and animals learned to live together on the land. These oral histories, told by one of the last First Nations to experience the effects of colonialism, not only preserve traditional knowledge for future generations, they also tell the inspiring story of how the Dane-zaa learned to succeed in the modern world"--Publisher's description. ER -