EN280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: First Nations, Experiential Knowledge, None Of The Above
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Trophic cascades: wolves changed the patterns of the deer/elk, reintroduced and replenished other types of animals. Regenerating woods secured the river beds, slowed and stopped the erosion. John swanton: 1900"s came to the west coast from harvard. Transcribed the language phonetically, then did interlinear, line by line language translation. Originally language is there, can be translated back. Aboriginal literature: watered down, writing itself is summarized. Loosing some literary value through this, but not lost in a story as sharp as a knife. Book is a great piece of technology. Monkey beach still on the west coast of canada. Young female protagonist, set about 100 years later, female writer including modern mainstream id issues. Louis riel: avatar that saw himself in a half madman state, spent some time in an asylum. Indian horse: young male protagonist, young and old struggles in the contemporary world.
