Temagami's tangled wild : race, gender, and the making of Canadian nature

Thorpe, Jocelyn 1977- (Author).

Summary: The author uncovers how struggles over meaning, racilized 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. --back cover

Record details

ISBN: 9780774822015 (pbk)
ISBN: 9780774822008 (cloth)
ISBN: 0774822007
Physical Description: print
xxii, 194 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Vancouver : UBC Press, c2012.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-179) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	1. Tangled Wild -- 2. Timber Nature -- 3. Virgin Territory for the Sportsman -- 4. A Rocky Reserve -- 5. Legal Landscapes.