scholarly journals Seeing Themselves: Jean Barman’s French Canadians, Furs, and Indigenous Women in the Making of the Pacific Northwest as a Resource for the Region’s People

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 130-135
Author(s):  
Stacy Nation-Knapper
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Indigenous Women ◽  
French Canadians ◽  
Cultural Encounters ◽  
The Past ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Columbia River Plateau ◽  
Complicated Nature

Dr. Barman’s award-winning study is a resource to the Indigenous and non-Indigenous people of the Columbia River Plateau and the Pacific Northwest, an environmentally and culturally diverse region that now encompasses two countries, two provinces, three states, and many Indigenous communities. For Indigenous communities of the region, French Canadians, Furs, and Indigenous Women in the Making of the Pacific Northwest provides an important context of colonialism, global economics, and the complicated nature of cross-cultural encounters. For non-Indigenous communities, the book also encourages an appreciation for the complexities of history often overlooked by celebratory histories of colonization. French Canadians, Furs, and Indigenous Women in the Making of the Pacific Northwest is a resource in which people see themselves and their families in a complicated, accessible, and inspiring story of the past.

scholarly journals “Jean Barman — Vernacular Historian”

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 136-146
Author(s):  
Heather Devine
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Mixed Race ◽  
Indigenous Studies ◽  
Western Canada ◽  
French Canadians ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Vernacular History

Over the past year, several excellent new publications focused on the histories of mixed-race French-Canadian communities in western Canada and the Pacific Northwest. Of these books, Jean Barman’s French Canadians, Furs and Indigenous Women in the Making of the Pacific Northwest merits special attention, because the author has successfully sought out, and integrated, vernacular voices as historical sources. And for this reason, Jean Barman is sometimes referred to as a “vernacular,” or grassroots historian. What is vernacular history? Is this genre a product of methodology or of one’s worldview? And can a vernacular approach to history help scholars navigate the increasingly politicised environment of indigenous studies? The author reflects on these questions, by sharing some of her personal experiences with Jean Barman that illustrate the complexity of the issues surrounding indigenous historical practice today.

scholarly journals Response to Roundtable on French Canadians, Furs, and Indigenous Women in the Making of the Pacific Northwest

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-166
Author(s):  
Jean Barman
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Indigenous Women ◽  
French Canadians ◽  
The Pacific

Along with expressing appreciation to the four insightful commentators, this response attends to the two most asked questions respecting the book.  Why did you write it?  And why did you write a book about us?

The Windgrasses(AperaAdans., Poaceae) in North America

1992 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 445-450 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. E. Northam ◽  
R. H. Callihan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North America ◽  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Northeastern United States ◽  
Southern Ontario ◽  
Grass Seed ◽  
The Past ◽  
Winter Cereals ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Additional Control

Two introduced windgrass species have become crop weeds in North America. Common windgrass is a major weed of winter cereals in Europe and was first documented in North America in the early 1800s. It is a weed of roadsides and waste areas in the northeastern United States and in winter grain fields of southern Ontario and Michigan. Interrupted windgrass was first reported in North America approximately 90 yr ago; it is adapted to more arid sites than common windgrass and is distributed predominantly in the northwestern U.S.A. During the past 10 to 15 yr, interrupted windgrass has adversely affected winter grain and grass seed producers in the Pacific Northwest due to additional control costs.

scholarly journals Toward a better understanding of climate and human impacts on late Holocene fire regimes in the Pacific Northwest, USA

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 478-512 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan K Walsh ◽  
Haley J Duke ◽  
Kevin C Haydon
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Ponderosa Pine ◽  
Late Holocene ◽  
Human Impacts ◽  
Fire Severity ◽  
Fire Regimes ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Clackamas County ◽  
Study Sites

In order to fully appreciate the role that fire, both natural and anthropogenic, had in shaping pre-Euro-American settlement landscapes in the Pacific Northwest (PNW), it is necessary to develop a more robust method of evaluating paleofire reconstructions. Here we demonstrate an approach that includes the identification of charcoal morphotypes (i.e. visually distinct charcoal particles), and incorporates both paleoecological and archaeological data sets, to more specifically determine both the nature of past fire regimes (i.e. fuel type and fire severity) and the likely ignition source of those fires. We demonstrate the usefulness of this approach by reconstructing the late Holocene fire and vegetation histories of Lake Oswego (Clackamas County), Oregon, and Fish Lake (Okanogan County), Washington, using macroscopic charcoal and pollen analysis of sediment cores. The histories were compared with climatic records from the PNW as well as archaeological, ethnographic, and historical records from the Lower Columbia River Valley and Southern Columbia Plateau cultural regions. Our results indicate that while centennial-to-millennial-scale climate change had limited influence on the fire regimes at the study sites during the past ∼3800 years, the use of fire by Native Americans for a variety of reasons, particularly after ca. 1200 calendar years before present (AD 750), had a far greater impact. Charcoal morphotype ratios also indicate that fires in the two watersheds were fundamentally different in their severity and impact, and led to major shifts in the forests and woodlands surrounding Lake Oswego, but helped maintain the ponderosa pine-dominated forest at Fish Lake. The elimination of fire from the two study sites during the past 100–300 years is likely the combined result of Euro-American contact and the arrival of disease in the PNW, as well as 20th-century fire suppression and grazing effects on fuel continuity, which has implications for future forest management and restoration efforts in the PNW.

Geographies of Indigenous Leaders: Landscapes and Mindscapes in the Pacific Northwest

2015 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Marker
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Indigenous Education ◽  
Teacher Educator ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Eighth Grade ◽  
Institutional Goals ◽  
Cultural Renewal ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Government Institution

This essay features three stories of “place-based” leadership in two Indigenous communities in the Pacific Northwest. Author Michael Marker weaves together stories from Nisga'a Elders in the Nass Valley of British Columbia, Coast Salish Elders in Washington State, and his own experiences as a researcher, teacher educator, and community participant to connect the personal, the political, and the historical themes of Indigenous education. Marker identifies two salient concepts through the developing narrative: first, leaders from an Indigenous consciousness must invigorate traditional spiritual foundations, and, second, they must mobilize knowledge of the land and people—corroded by colonization—toward cultural renewal. Bringing to light the conflicts between local community yearnings and Western institutional goals when engaging in cross-cultural collaborations, this essay puts forth a decolonized approach to educational leadership, one that requires cultural renewal and respect for how a people experience landscape, history, and identity. Erratum Publisher's Note: Due to an editing error, the original published version of “Geographies of Indigenous Leaders: Landscapes and Mindscapes in the Pacific Northwest” by Michael Marker misstated the present status of the Lummi Day School. The earlier version stated on page 230 that “This school is currently a U.S. government institution that serves students from kindergarten through eighth grade.” The sentence has been corrected to read: “This school was a U.S. government institution that served students from kindergarten through eighth grade.” Updated: 2015-09-30

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