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E-book Remembering Our Relations : De?nesu???ne? Oral Histories of Wood Buffalo National Park

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The experiences of the relatives and Ancestors of the Dënes???né and of the living and deceased members of Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN), are the heartbeat of Remembering our Relations. This book happened because grandparents, great-grandparents, and great-great-grandparents passed down, from generation to generation, their oral histories and testimony about what happened in the history of Wood Buffalo National Park. We wish first and foremost to honour their sharing, bear witness to their suffering, and recall and lift up their strength, resistance, and love. The book starts and finishes with their words and memories. We are deeply grateful to the many who shared their stories and passed on their belief in justice and healing. A work like this one depends on the knowledge, time, and care of so many people. This book is dedicated to the late ACFN Elders Alec Bruno and Pat Marcel, who worked tirelessly throughout their lives and leadership to draw attention to the history of the Wood Buffalo National Park (WBNP). Their efforts to expose the violence of WBNP and lift up the voices of Dene people who experienced that violence were catalysts for this research project. Chief Allan Adam’s Foreword to Remembering Our Relations pays tribute to his grandmother Helene Piche-Bruno and her son (Chief Allan’s father), the late Alec Bruno. A Preface from Elder Alice Rigney, a sister of Elder Pat Marcel and granddaughter of Ester Piche. Chief Allan and Elder Alice have provided an eloquent tribute that is far more meaningful than our own attempts to describe the importance of Pat’s and Alec’s work could ever be. Many ACFN members and staff played central roles in the production of this book and in the research that preceded it. As will be described later in the book, the work began with a research project starting in 2019, which resulted in a report released in 2021, titled A History of Wood Buffalo National Park’s Relations with the Dënes???né. The intention of the report research was to document the history of the Park and its harmful intergenerational impacts on ACFN, in order to inform negotiations for a formal federal apology and reparations. Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation established a community steering committee before the research for the original 2021 report began. Members of this committee played invaluable roles throughout all stages of this work and put a lot of time and energy into the research report and the book. Committee members were involved, for example, in planning and conceiving the project and work early on, working out to navigate the re-search process throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, overseeing the work, engaging with the larger community regularly, reviewing and revising drafts, and developing the manuscript and in so many other ways. The committee developed the research plan and questions that guided the work starting in 2019 and made sure the project proceeded with the community’s goals, con-cerns, and intentions at its heart. The late Pat Marcel, Brian Fung, Rose Ross, Jay Telegdi, Lisa Tssessaze, Olivia Villebrun, Leslie Wiltzen, staff at Counsel Public Affairs, Inc., and Larry Innes at Olthuis Kleer Townshend Law, worked tirelessly since the research report project began in 2019. At the time, Elder Pat Marcel was the lead and chair of the committee and lead negotiator with the Government of Canada. His passing in late 2020 was a heartbreaking loss for all of us as well as for the wider community. Elder Pat’s nephew Leslie Wiltzen took over Pat’s roles thereafter. We are thankful for both Elder Pat’s and Leslie’s guidance and leadership.

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No. Panggil

590.73 TRI r

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Canada : University of Calgary Press., 2023

Deskripsi Fisik

344 hlm

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English

ISBN/ISSN

9781773854137

Klasifikasi

590.73

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computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Zoo

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