By Leslie Main Johnson
This delicate exam of the meanings of panorama attracts at the author's wealthy event with varied enviornments and peoples: the Gitksan and Witsuwit'en of norwestern British Columbia, the Kaska Dena of the southern Yukon, and the Gwich'in of the Mackenzie Delta. Johnson continues that the methods humans comprehend and act upon land have vast implications, shaping cultures and methods of lifestyles, picking identification and polity, and developing and mainting environmental relationships and economies. Her emphassis on panorama and methods of understanding the land presents a specific tackle ecological relationships of First Peoples to land.
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The sandy places in relatively sheltered spots where the rush grows are covered by water with moderate current during high water—the hydrologic conditions that favour the deposition of the sand substrate are also the right kinds of places for the salmon to rest. A couple of place terms also exist which are not, in the usual sense, ecological or topographic. One term deals with a class of places of supernatural risk and power, called sbi laxnok, and the other is the word for village or settlement, laxgaltsap.
An area of persistent theoretical interest and practical significance is the degree of congruence between local landscape classifications, and the diverse classifications of Western sciences and managers. In my 2000 paper on Gitksan landscape ethnoecology this was a major theme, and is addressed also in Shepard et al. 2001, Shepard et al. 2004, and Mark and Turk 2003. In a sense, this is again a particular aspect of traditional, or local, ecological knowledge and its relationship to Western scientific knowledge.
2006) commented that he had to frame questions carefully in his ethnogeographic research in Savoie, France, to obtain generic rather than particular locations to obtain specific plants. It is clear that place names are important mnemonics in referencing ecological information (cf. g. Tom 1987; Nyman and Leer 1993; Thornton 2008). Toponyms, and knowledge of named places often seems to evoke strong emotional attachment (Palmer 2006; Young-Leslie 2007). g. Gwich’in place designation reported in Andre and Kritsch 1992; Kritsch and Andre 1994; Greer 1999), while for other groups there may be very specific “rules” in how places are named (Hunn 1996; Thornton 2008), and place names may be proprietary information that is revealed only to the proper owners of the land (Johnson 2000).