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Blackfeet Discourses for Dwelling: Our homeland, a national park
(2020)
Abstract
The main purpose of this chapter is to present to readers the spoken words of Blackfeet people who have discussed their homeland, its landscape and all that it entails. In the process, the chapter seeks to help readers hear in those words a Blackfeet way of speaking about their land, to introduce some of the cultural meanings of Blackfeet in that way of speaking about it, and to offer an understanding of this way as a communal touchstone which is anchored in the discourse Blackfeet participants produce as they speak about their homeland.
Keywords
- cultural discourse analysis,
- Blackfeet Studies,
- National Parks,
- Ethnography of Communication,
- Native American Studies
Disciplines
Publication Date
Winter December 11, 2020
Comments
This chapter is part of an international network of indigenous people, activists, and scholars who are working to offer indigenous views of common lands which are now occupied by other-than-aboriginal people.
Citation Information
Donal Carbaugh and Eean Grimshaw (2020). Blackfeet Discourses of Dwelling: Our homeland, a national park. In progress paper to be published in a Finnish journal and book.