Keith Carlson
Keith Thor Carlson is Professor of History at the University of the Fraser Valley where he holds the Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Indigenous and Community-Engaged History. Prior to coming to UFV he worked for 18 years at the University of Saskatchewan, and before that for a decade he served as historian for the Stó:lō Nation in British Columbia. He collaborates with Indigenous Knowledge Keepers to research the history and historical consciousness of Indigenous people and examine the history of settler colonialism. He has authored, co-authored, or edited nine books and numerous articles. Among his publications are the award winning Sto:lo-Coast Salish Historical Atlas (2001), The Power of Place the Problem of Time: Aboriginal Identity and Historical Consciousness in the Cauldron of Colonialism (2010).
Address: Chilliwack BC, Canada
Address: Chilliwack BC, Canada
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gathered to discuss the history of non-national parks in Canada and beyond.
The following introduction draws together common threads tying the articles
making up this collection together and arrives at some conclusions surrounding
the history of non-national parks. Specifically we contend: 1) heterogeneous
jurisdictional control seems to produce heterogeneous parks; 2) park creation
and management, by definition, are exercises in boundary maintenance – rhetorics
of inclusivity ignore the reality of exclusion; and 3) non-national parks are
expected to provide economic return as much as preserve ecological/heritage
value. We then suggest possible avenues for future research. To address some
of these issues, the greater part of this atypically long introduction provides an
analysis of recent non-Native attempts to understand Aboriginal epistemologies
surrounding environmental protection and protected areas strategies.
In this article I engage the old debate over the "great divide" but only as a means of setting up a discussion of Salish historical consciousness. Chronologies are challenged and notions of where power nests within the colonial relationship are re-situated.
tell the same story. Sometimes differences are over points of fact, other
times interpretation, and on still other occasions the historical narratives
appear to speak right past one another. This article examines
conflicting historical understandings that Natives and newcomers
from British Columbia brought to an encounter between a delegation
of Salish leaders and England’s King Edward in 1906. The author
takes seriously the maxim that meaning precedes experience, and
suggests that it is incumbent on western society to try to understand
the Aboriginal techniques of constructing knowledge, and not just
the other way around. He argues that history needs to be understood
within particular historical contexts, and that historians should not shy
away from considering and trying to interpret the role of metaphysics
within the construction of Aboriginal historical consciousness.
gathered to discuss the history of non-national parks in Canada and beyond.
The following introduction draws together common threads tying the articles
making up this collection together and arrives at some conclusions surrounding
the history of non-national parks. Specifically we contend: 1) heterogeneous
jurisdictional control seems to produce heterogeneous parks; 2) park creation
and management, by definition, are exercises in boundary maintenance – rhetorics
of inclusivity ignore the reality of exclusion; and 3) non-national parks are
expected to provide economic return as much as preserve ecological/heritage
value. We then suggest possible avenues for future research. To address some
of these issues, the greater part of this atypically long introduction provides an
analysis of recent non-Native attempts to understand Aboriginal epistemologies
surrounding environmental protection and protected areas strategies.
In this article I engage the old debate over the "great divide" but only as a means of setting up a discussion of Salish historical consciousness. Chronologies are challenged and notions of where power nests within the colonial relationship are re-situated.
tell the same story. Sometimes differences are over points of fact, other
times interpretation, and on still other occasions the historical narratives
appear to speak right past one another. This article examines
conflicting historical understandings that Natives and newcomers
from British Columbia brought to an encounter between a delegation
of Salish leaders and England’s King Edward in 1906. The author
takes seriously the maxim that meaning precedes experience, and
suggests that it is incumbent on western society to try to understand
the Aboriginal techniques of constructing knowledge, and not just
the other way around. He argues that history needs to be understood
within particular historical contexts, and that historians should not shy
away from considering and trying to interpret the role of metaphysics
within the construction of Aboriginal historical consciousness.