The Creation and Endurance of Memory and Place Among First Nations of Northwestern Ontario, Canada |
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Authors: | John Norder |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Anthropology, Michigan State University, 355 Baker Hall, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA |
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Abstract: | Examinations of rock art typically focus on acts of creation and compositional meaning, with little attention paid to the
position of these created places in the palimpsest of history. As these sites endure, their recognition and importance within
subsequent social developments, including memory and oral tradition, are both invented and reinvented as descendant populations
become established or as new populations move in displacing or replacing the makers. This paper examines the ways in which
oral histories of historic and contemporary First Nations populations in northwestern Ontario, Canada, challenge standard
understandings of rock-art in the region, taking these sites out of the maker/meaning context and placing them within a framework
of user/caretaker. The results of this contextual shift contest notions of applied cultural affiliation and traditional ownership,
resulting in a perspective that reveals a transgenerational and transcultural endurance of these places in the contemporary
social memory of these Indigenous communities. |
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