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Since I stopped posting regularly on this blog last May, I have found I really enjoy not blogging regularly. I have appreciated the discussion that this blog has generated – and occasionally still generates – but my online attention has ...
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I am currently on a research and writing leave until January 2010. I will not be updating FieldNotes regularly until I am back in the classroom next winter.
I am, however, on twitter and facebook. I’m also tweeting for the ...
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I’ve been twittering for about a month now. I like it a lot more than I imagined I would. Here’s why:
Twitter is much more intimate than blogging
Twitter is more immediate than blogging, particularly in feedback and continuing conversation
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Flip Video MinoHD
Originally uploaded by TFM
I’ve been using the tiny Flip Video MinoHD (by Pure Digital Technologies) for about a month now. I’ve had a chance to try it in a fieldwork setting (elder interviews) and while traveling ...
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I’ll be around the CASCA conference at UBC this week. I hope to see you there.
BTW: If you are on twitter, please mark your Casca tweets with the hashtag #CASCA....
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UBC Anthropology Prof Charles Menzies has posted four short videos on the Forests for the Future website. The videos are shot in the Gitxaała community (Tsimshian) on the British Columbia north coast. From the website:
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Conservative MP John Cummins writes a long history of aboriginal title debates since the 1991 Delgamuukw decision. In sum:
Recognition of aboriginal title would transfer control of 95 per cent of British Columbia to native leaders who represent little more ...
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Celebrating the Donner prize nominees, the Toronto Star has published a short excerpt (maybe a series of consolidations?) of Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry by Widdowson and Howard.
(I have discussed this book on the blog before. Albert Howard weighed in.)
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The BC NDP have announced they support the idea of recognizing aboriginal title in BC.
(The Recognition Act is legislation proposed by the Liberals. It was shelved because of concerns that the legislation was being rushed before the election. More ...
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The Federal government will sign the Maa-Nulth Treaty (Vancouver Island) on Thursday April 9, 20009. From the WestCoaster.ca:
During a ceremony scheduled to take place in Port Alberni Thursday, the federal government will sign the Maa-nulth Treaty. The federal government ...
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Update: All episodes of We Shall Remain are available on the web.
PBS will begin airing We Shall Remain, a five part series on Native American history on April 13. It is showing in Vancouver on Detroit PBS (Shaw channel ...