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Memory, meaning, and imaginary time: the construction of knowledge in White and Chipewyan cultures
Ethnohistory • 38 (2) • Published In 1991 • Pages: 149-175
By: Sharp, Henry S..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an account of the events surrounding a scuffle that broke out between a white teacher and Chipewyan Indian, 'Charley,' in a northern Saskatchewan town. The teacher was attempting to breakup a fight between Charley and another Indian. The Principal of the school had the teacher press charges and Charley was eventually prosecuted. Sharp sees the real conflict originating with the Principal, who was a tireless promoter of progress and personally could not abide Charley and his family, who kept a traditional way of life and resisted assimilation. Sharp examines how the testimony of the teacher was influenced by the overriding concerns of the Principal. The judge accepted the teacher's 'factual' rendition of the incident and ruled accordingly. There was no opportunity for Charley, who had no legal counsel, to give his own account of the incident, which was embedded in a larger dispute over fishing rights between the town's two main Indian families.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Ethnic stratification
- Brawls, riots, and banditry
- Kin relationships
- Property offenses
- Trial procedure
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Chipewyans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Arctic and Subarctic
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 1999
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1969-1970
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1969-1970
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Black Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- Henry S. Sharp
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 174-175)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 57043343
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Chipewyan Indians