The shared use of wild animals has helped to determine social relations between Native peoples and newcomers. In later settlement periods, controversy about subsistence hunting and campaigns of local conservation associations drew lines between groups in communities, particularly Native peoples, immigrants, farmers, and urban dwellers. In addition to examining grassroots conservation activities, Colpitts identifies early slaughter rituals, iconographic traditions, and subsistence strategies that endured well into the interwar years in the twentieth century. Drawing primarily on local and provincial archival sources, he analyzes popular meanings and booster messages discernible in taxidermy work, city nature museums, and promotional photography.
- ISBN10 6613129828
- ISBN13 9786613129826
- Publish Date 1 September 2002
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 28 September 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint UBC Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 216
- Language English