Thesis examining how community hunting strategies and food-sharing networks facilitate social-ecological resilience to a decreased availability of barren-ground caribou in the K'asho Got'ine region of the Sahtú Settlement Area. It is based on collaborative research carried out with the Fort Good Hope Renewable Resources Council, including participant observation and interviews. I demonstrate that organizers of autumn community hunts (2007-2010) responded flexibly to ecological conditions (i.e. the availability of different species of game), and to community perspectives about the hunts, while working to address the broader needs of traditional knowledge education for youth and the food security of vulnerable demographics. A tradition of food-sharing has always been an important mechanism by which the latter need is met. Based on a comparison of two hunts in 2009 (a community hunt versus a series of household hunts), I find that vulnerable groups received meat to a greater extent after the community hunt in part through their exercising their eligibility for it through requests (Author)
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Resilience to ecological change: contemporary harvesting and food-sharing dynamics in the K'asho Got'ine community of Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories
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- Project: Thesis - M.Sc.
- Dataset Title: Resilience to ecological change: contemporary harvesting and food-sharing dynamics in the K'asho Got'ine community of Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories
- Data Series: NA
- Orginator: University of Alberta
- Institution Type: academic
- Author: McMillan, R.C., Parlee, B.
- Distributor: International Polar Year Publications Database
- Reports: NA
- Data Type: publication
- Délı̨nę District: no
- K’asho Got’ı̨nę District: yes
- Tulı́t’a District: no
- Time Period: 2009
- Source Date: 2012
- Version: NA
- Access Constraints: open download - login
- Use Constraints: none
- Completion Status: complete
- Maintenance: no
- Maintenance Frequency: NA
- Metadata Available: yes
- Metadata Contact: University of Alberta, Cameron Library (Record ID AST176988)
- Spatial Extent: sahtú
- Traditional Knowledge: yes
- Wildlife: yes
- Habitat: yes
- Keywords: hunting; animal; food; barren-ground caribou; K'asho Got'ine; interview;
- Data Category: text and map
- Format: NA
- Feature Type: NA
- Feature Count: NA
- Dataset Descriptive Name: NA
- File Name: NA
- Scale: NA
- Projection: NA
- Downloadable: no
- Hardcopy Component: yes
- Hardcopy Description: thesis
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