Book
The Temagami experience: recreation, resources, and aboriginal rights in the northern Ontario wilderness
University of Toronto Press • Toronto • Published In 1989 • Pages:
By: Hodgins, Bruce W., Benidickson, Jamie.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a history of resource development, recreational land use, and aboriginal rights in the Temagami country of northeastern Ontario. The authors discuss the traditional way of life of the Ojibwa and their early contact with Europeans. Several chapters deal exclusively with the lumber industry and the development of Temagami as a summer vacation spot for wealthy urban Canadians and Americans. The Temagami Ojibwa, or Teme-augama Anishnabai, as they call themselves, have marginal roles in the book, until the 1970s when lumbering and recreational interests come to a head. The Ojibwa side with the recreational users at first and then go on to press for their own aboriginal rights. The band had never signed the Robinson-Huron Treaty of 1850 and therefore still had a claim to the land. The ensuing litigation held up development all together, forcing a major lumber company to close down and a planned resort development to be dropped. The band was defeated in court, however, the book leaves us with their plans to repeal the case, or seek an out-of-court settlement with the provincial government.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Geography
- Hunting and trapping
- Fishing
- Real property
- External trade
- External relations
- Public welfare
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Ojibwa
- 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
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary 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 ; 1998
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- Not specified
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1901-1989
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Twentieth Century Ojibwa, Temagami region, Ontario, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- Bruce W. Hodgins and Jamie Benidickson
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-350)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 89175175
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ojibwa Indians