ANT 358 Dr. Dorothy D. Wills

Winter, 2001 Cal Poly Pomona

Study Guide on Northern Passage

Important Concepts

Ethnographic fieldwork

Flu epidemic of 1919

Introduction of measles, chicken pox, TB

Deforestation

“Stampede of ‘98”

Migratory fish (anadromous)

Potlatch

Totemism

Patrilocal band; territorial aggregation of bands

“Squaw dance”

“Bushman”

Emergent authenticity

Joking relationship

Metis

Divination and dreaming

Starvation food

Magicians

Hunting partner

The “law” of reciprocity

Muskeg (or “big muskeg”)

Naming landmarks (Didn’t Wipe Ass Lake and Ass Wiped Lake) – pardon my French

Personal nicknames

Treaty Day

Commoditization

Important Issues

HBC as “community’s social epicenter”

Role of drinking in Native culture; “Don’t drink with your informants”

Territory and boundaries of hunter-gatherers (semi-nomadic)

Matrilineal kin groups (sib, clan, moiety)

“Shit on the mouth, or shit on the beak”

Ethnolinguistic boundaries and markers

Sandwiched between trader and missionary

Never turn back

Indirectness in transactions

Camp immodesty and other hunting adaptive behaviors

To pay the lake (offerings)