From mlsmith@christa.unh.edu Mon Nov 11 12:29:10 1996 Received: from unh.edu (unh.edu [132.177.132.50]) by lox.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA10938 for ; Mon, 11 Nov 1996 12:29:00 -0500 (EST) Received: from christa.unh.edu by unh.edu with SMTP id AA15720 (5.67b+/IDA-1.5 for ); Mon, 11 Nov 1996 12:25:53 -0500 Received: (from mlsmith@localhost) by christa.unh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id MAA08511; Mon, 11 Nov 1996 12:25:51 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 12:25:51 -0500 (EST) From: Michael L Smith To: dianne@sandelman.ocunix.on.ca Subject: Re: Innu Cultural Tradition (fwd) Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: OR Dear Dianne, Here is a forwarded message that I sent to Jim Ryan, psychologist, and author of the article listed below (of which I can furnish a more complete citation). This gives you some more information about what I am doing, and some more citations that are important. I still haven't been able to contact Adriann Tanner. Another very important publication that is invaluable in this work is a book by Anastasia M. Shkilnyk titled, "A Poison Stronger than Love: The Destruction of an Ojibwa Community." 1985, Yale University Press. This work documents the close relationship between the earth and this Ojibwa community, destroyed by industry in central Canada. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 4 Jul 1996 16:18:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Ryan To: Michael L Smith Subject: Re: Innu Cultural Tradition Dear Michael, I received your message. I will get back to you some time next week. I am just on my way out. Jim On Thu, 4 Jul 1996, Michael L Smith wrote: > > Dear Jim, > > I read your article titled, "Eroding Innu Cultural tradition: > Individualization and Communality," and I found some very important > insights and observations. I am a grad. student at the Univ. of New > Hampshire, Dept. of Natural Resources, where I am studying the "Innu Way > of Life: Cultural and Environmental Impacts of Hydroelectric Developments > in Eastern Quebec." More and more I am seeing that various pressures, on > top of the environmental factors (which, if you look on a map, are > encroaching upon their territory from all angles), push Innut people away > from their traditional culture. Various pressures to assimilate, that you > show in your paper (i.e.,school, institutional,etc.), are that much > harder to resist when the traditional life is being undermined from the > environmental/ecological sector. > I lived up in Maliotenam, Quebec for a number of months last > winter, interviewing and observing. I focused my interviews on those that > continue to go "into the bush" to hunt and fish, and I found that these > people are much better able to resist the temptations and traps of modern > society, and the drug and alcohol abuse that are affecting native > communities across Canada and the U.S. > I am now doing a current and more thorough literature review. I > was wondering if you know of any other research papers that you think > would help me. Also, the paper by Adrian Tanner titled, "Land Use and > Occupancy Amongst the Innut of Southeastern Nitassinan," rev. ed., Paper > prepared for the Naskapi Montagnais Innu Association, 1977, would be very > interesting to me. Do you know where I can reach Adrian Tanner? Or James > Waldram? > Thanks for an insightful paper, and I wish you continued success > in your endeavors. > > > > Sincerely, > > > Michael Smith > > University of New Hampshire > Dept. of Natural Resources > James Hall > Durham, NH 03824 > > Office: (603) 862-0280 > Home: (603) 868-3963 > e-mail: mlsmith@christa.unh.edu >