ANTH 436 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Manawan, Indian Act, Maurice River
23 May 2018
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Presentation 1: Barriere Lake Algonquins
traditional governance system
• kinship relations in land-use management of Algonquin territory
o including gender roles, respect for elders, expanding kinship networks
strategically through marriage
• family alliances (until they settled at the reserve)
• highly tied to seasonality
• seasonality
o growth of plants, movement of animals, activities of humans
hunting, fishing, trapping, and resistance
• seasonal dispersal and aggregation
• Barriere lake was the first seasonal meeting point
• employment on reserve is high, non-participation in the wage economy
ensuring conservation and social cohesion
• social, economic, ecological advantages to structuring access to territory
• system of lifelong learning
traplines through time
• initiation to trapping begins somewhere between age 8-14
• partnership of 2 families
• traplines changed with the Hudson's Bay Company
o traplines as a tool of colonization
life on the reserve
• 59 acres
• reserve set up in 1962
• common issues on reserve (but amplified because of tensions with the Quebec
government)
o poor housing
o majority unemployment
o power access issues
incursions on the Algonquin Lifestyle
• seeking a right to live, not a right to property
• logging
• herbicides, pesticides
• hydroelectric dams and power lines
• disruption of traditional governance
trilateral agreement
• signed August 22, 1991
• signatories
o Algonquins of Barriere Lake
o Government of Quebec
o Government of Canada
• co-management
o not an establishment of co-management procedures; but a process by which
they would go about coming up with these institutions and procedures
• 2 institutions implemented
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