Book ID: CBB001200652

Temagami's Tangled Wild: Race, Gender, and the Making of Canadian Nature

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Thorpe, Jocelyn (Author)


UBC Press


Physical Details: xxii + 194 pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.; index
Language: English

"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."--P. [4] of cover.

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Review Giesbrecht, Jodi (2013) Review of "Temagami's Tangled Wild: Race, Gender, and the Making of Canadian Nature". Canadian Historical Review (p. 151). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Alfonso De Nardo
David Brownstein
Wise, Michael
MacDowell, Laurel Sefton
Smithers, Gregory D.
Fichtel, Kathleen J.
Concepts
Environmental history
Colonialism
Native American civilization and culture
Forests and forestry
American Indians; Native Americans; First Nations of the Americas
Environmentalism
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
21st century
20th century, late
17th century
Places
United States
Canada
North America
Great Britain
Apennines
Western states (U.S.)
Institutions
United States. National Park Service
United States Air Force (USAF)
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