Education

 

University of Toronto

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Social and Cultural Anthropology

1986

 

University of Toronto

Master of Arts - M.A. Social and Cultural Anthropology

1976

 

Trent University

Bachelor of Science - B.Sc. with Honours, Anthropology

1975

 

DISSERTATION

The Structural Basis of Tahltan Indian Society

Supervisor: Dr. David H. Turner

Examiners: Dr. Martin G. Silverman, UBC; Dr. Abraham Rotstein UT;

Dr. Tom McFeat UT; Dr. Peter Carstens UT.

 

Abstract

This study explores the nature of productive and proprietary relations among the Tahltan Indians of north western British Columbia. It considers the units of organization in relation to the assignment of relationship terminologies. An ideological rationale is developed through an analysis of a number of Tahltan myths from the collection compiled by James A. Teit.

 

AWARDS

1980-81 Ontario Graduate Scholarship

1977-78 Canadian Studies Fellowship

1977-78 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (awarded, but declined to accept U of T Open)

Appointments

 

Head of Anthropology

Department of Anthropology, Mount Allison University

2013-2016

 

Adjunct Professor

Interdisciplinary Studies Program, University of New Brunswick

2007-2011

 

Head of Anthropology

Department of Anthropology, Mount Allison University

2004-2009 (re-appointed 2007-2009)

 

Associate Professor of Anthropology

Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Mount Allison University

1994- appointed (granted early tenure 1997)

 

Research Associate

Frost Centre for Canadian Heritage and Development Studies, Trent University

1995-2000

Professional Affiliations

 

International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES)

• Member, 2013-

Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (CFHSS)

• Awards to Scholarly Publications Program Publications Committee (ASPP)
• Member, 2012-

Association of Atlantic Universities (AAU)

• Presidents’ Working Group on Aboriginal Issues, 2007-

American Anthropology Association (AAA)

• History of Anthropology Group, 2007-

Canadian Anthropology Society/Societe canadienne d’anthropologie

• Member, 1989- ; Executive Member and Treasurer, 2008-2011

Journal of New Brunswick Studies/Revue d’etudes sur le Nouveau-Brunswick

• Advisory Board Member, 2009-2011

Oceans Management Research Network/Reseau de recherche sur la gestion des oceans

• Member, 2000-

Publications (Refereed)

 

• 1993 "Community-Based Research and the Anthropologist" Proactive 12 (2): 3-16* “Introduction” Proactive 12 (2): 1-2*

 

• 1995 "The Dog-Husband and 'Dirty' Women: The cultural context of a traditional Tahltan narrative" Igitur VI-VII (2/1): 39-57*

 

• 1998-99 “Les marmottes, les femmes et les esprits gardiens: transformation spirituelle et chamanisme” recherches amerindiennes au quebec XXVIII (3): 41-48*

 

• 2002 “Fish Talk” Anthropologica XLIV: 99-111*

 

• 2003 “Indigenous Rights, the Marshall Decision and Cultural Restoration” Acadiensis XXXIII (1): 108-113*

 

• 2005 “Shamanism in the postmodern world: A review essay” with Lorne Holyoak, University of Saskatchewan. Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 34/3-4: 517-568*

 

• 2007 “The Northern Athabaskan Survey of Edward Sapir and James A. Teit” Anthropological Linguistics 49/2: 99-117*

 

• 2012 with Ed Koenig - Socio-Economic Assessment Parameters and Methodology for Food, Social and Ceremonial (FSC) Fisheries in a Species at Risk Act (SARA) Perspective, Gulf Region Ecosystems Management Series, Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, 2012 Cat. No. Fs 103-2/2012-ISSN 1915-0601*

 

• 2017 Kira Gee, Andreas Kannen, Robert Adlam, Cecilia Brooks, Mollie Chapman, Roland Cormier, Christian Fischer, Steve Fletcher, Matthew Gubbins, Rachel Shucksmith, Rebecca Shellock

 

Grants

 

RESEARCH GRANTS

 

• 2016 Atlantic Ecosystem Initiative (AEI) $166,000 Clean Water, Healthy Food: Ecosystem Monitoring by Mi'kmaw Communities in Heavily Agricultural Watersheds in Mi'kma'ki (Atlantic Region) in partnership with the Mi’kmaw Conservation Group and the Confederacy of Mainland Mikmaq

 

• 2013 Environmental Trust Fund (ETF) Project #130035 $24,000, A First Nations Perspective on Social Impact Assessment related to Species at Risk Designation in partnership with the North Shore Micmac District Council (NSMDC)

 

• 2012 Research and Creative Activities Committee $ 5,000, Developing a Process for Social Research to address the Impact of Environmental Change in partnership with the North Shore Micmac District Council (NSMDC)

 

• 2008 Research and Creative Activity Committee $ 2,800, Euro-Canadian and Aboriginal Fishers of the Miramichi River

 

• 2006 Research and Creative Activity Committee $ 3,085, Joseph Howe’s ‘Indian Journal’

 

• 2005 Research and Creative Activity Committee $ 3,900, Discourse and Dissonance: Assessing and Managing Competing Claims

 

• 2002 SSHRC Senate Committee on Research $ 3,847 ‘Living the Fishing’: Tradition and Change in an Euro-Canadian Inland Fishery

 

• 2001 SSHRC Senate Committee on Research $ 3,800 ‘Living the Fishing’: Tradition and Change in an Euro-Canadian Inland Fishery

 

• 1999 SSHRC Senate Committee on Research $ 1,200, Social Change and the Logic of an Inland Aboriginal Fishery: Phase II

 

• 1998 SSHRC Senate Committee on Research $ 3,000, Social Change and the Logic of an Inland Aboriginal Fishery

 

• 1997 Aid to Small Universities Programme (ASUP) $ 3,780, Social Change and the Logic of an Inland Aboriginal Fishery
  • SSHRC Senate Committee on Research $ 2,860, Athapaskan Tahltan Song and Tape Transcription Project

 

• 1995 Dean of Social Sciences $ 500 Transcription of recorded interviews and oral narratives relating to fieldwork among the northern Athapaskan Tahltan.

 

• 1993 CUEW Local 8 Professional Development Fund, Transcription of recorded interviews and oral narratives relating to fieldwork among the northern Athapaskan Tahltan.

 

• 1991 CUEW Local 8 Professional Development Fund, Review of fieldnotes and correspondence of James A. Teit Canadian Ethnology Service, National Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec

 

GRANTS IN AID OF PUBLICATION

 

• 1992 CUEW Local 8 Professional Development Fund, Special journal issue "Anthropology and the Workplace" Proactive 12 (2)(Proactive is the journal of the Society of Applied Anthropology in Canada)

 

Research Contracts

 

• 2011 Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Moncton, NB $25,000 - with Ed Koenig PhD, Socio-Economic Assessment Parameters and Methodology for Food, Social and Ceremonial (FSC) Fisheries in a Species at Risk Act (SARA) Perspective

 

• 2009 Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Moncton, NB $ 1,500 Member, Experts Committee, Southern Gulf of St. Lawrence Coalition on Sustainability (SGSL) Socio-Economic Cultural Overview Assessment Values Study (SECOA) project

 

• 2005-2008 Specific Claims Branch, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada $310,300, To provide research and analysis services, policy development and research support. Renewed 2009 and 2010
  • 2006-2007 Research analysis $ 15,390 - Bear River First Nation – Pipeline Aquaduct Right-of-Way Claim

 

• 2002-2005 Specific Claims Branch, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada $333,500 - To provide research and analysis services, policy development and research support.
  • 2002-2003 Research and analysis $ 35,420 - Acadia First Nation – Roseway River Claim and Clyde River Claim

 

• 1998-2002 Specific Claims Branch, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada $499,998 - To provide research and analysis services, policy development and research support.
  • 2001-2002 Research and analysis $ 24,840 - Madawaska Maliseet First Nation – Alienation of Lands Claim

 

• 1994 Sole Source, Specific Claims West, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada $ 11,665 - To prepare an historical report aimed at developing a reasonable definition of an “Indian settlement” (ie. village) in the Lillooet context of the 1860's
  • The Nature of Lillooet Villages in the 1860's with particular reference to the Anderson Lake Indian Band

 

• 1994-96 Litigation Support Directorate, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada $41,997 - To provide research and analysis required to ensure that a complete factual situation is presented for specific court actions
  • Litigation Support Directorate, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, $43,602 - To prepare document collections, document indices, bibliographies, historical reports, file summaries, map/survey collections and provide other related research support services

 

• 1993-1995 Specific Claims East/Central, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada $157,290 - To provide research and analysis services related to specific claims
  • 1993 Preliminary analysis $ 1,712 - Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg (Maniwaki)
  • 1993 Preliminary analysis $ 4,280 - Red Bank First Nation – 1892 Surrender Claim

 

• 1993-1995 Specific Claims East/Central, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada $105,930 - To conduct document collecting, indexing, copying, proofreading, to prepare file summaries and to provide other support services in respect to specific claims
  • 1994 Proofreading $ 4,012 - Missanabie Cree and Chapleau Cree First Nations’ historical research reports, document collections, and indices

 

• 1993-1994 Litigation Support Directorate, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada $ 87,750 - To conduct all research required to ensure that a complete factual situation is presented for specific court actions
  • Litigation Support Directorate, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada $100,250 - To prepare document collections, document indices, bibliographies, historical reports, file summaries, and map/survey collections

 

• 1987-88 A five month research contract to investigate the adequacy of the assessment function in the children's services system within the County of Peterborough. Specifically, to investigate the characteristics and adequacy of the present system, to identify problems and issues in the provision of assessment services around delivery of care, treatment and support services and to recommend strategies for improving the assessment capacity of the system. A total value of $15,000

 

• 1987 A two month writing contract to prepare a workshop manual for the Community Race Relations Committee of Peterborough, Peterborough, ON. $2,000.00

 

• 1986 A four month research contract with Dr. Abraham Rotstein to investigate systems of support for the unemployed as part of the work of the Commission of Inquiry on Unemployment Insurance. $13,000

 

• 1977-85 An Urgent Ethnology research contract with the Canadian Ethnology Service, National Museum of Man to conduct a study on Tahltan social organization (kin and affinal terminologies, marriage preference, descent rules and use of the resource base) in northern British Columbia $ 7,500.00

Edited Collections

 

• 1993 Co-editor with David McClelland. Anthropology and the Workplace. Special issue of Proactive 12 (2)

 

• 1999 Co-editor with Wendy Burnett. Language and Identity. Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Meeting of the Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association held at Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB, November 5-6

 

• 2005 Editor. Papers from the session: Shamans, Mediums and the Media organized for the Canadian Anthropology Society meetings held at the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, May, 1998. These appeared in Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 32/3: 311-335 [Maclean]; 34/1: 81- [Bain]; and 34/3-4: 405–424 [Holyoak]

Papers in Conference/Workshop Proceedings

 

• 2013 “Species at Risk Listing- Socio-Impacts on First Nations and Cultural Values Mapping in Canada” with Michael Cox, Report of the Joint HZG/LOICZ/ICES Workshop: Mapping Cultural Dimensions of Marine Ecosystem Services (WKCES) 17-21 June, Geesthacht, Germany pp.53-58.

 

• 1999 The Discourse of an Aboriginal Fishery. Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Meeting of the Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association held at Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB, November 5-6