The Athabasca Basin Region : People, Communities, Context

• Tracking Change: Local and Traditional Knowledge in Watershed Governance -- Global Knowledge Symposium Thailand 2017

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Tsannie, Joe; Johnson, Johanne

• Explores the history of the Athabasca River Basin region and the Denesuline peoples of Northern Saskatchewan through traditional knowledge, legends, and stories. This includes the concept of spirit power derived from the spiritual relationship between people and animals, creation stories that speak of animal power, great floods and fires, and connection with other northern peoples.

• Date created

  2017-04-01

• Subjects / Keywords

  • traditional knowledge, legends, stories,
  • community history, tracking change
  • ; Denesuline
  • Hatchet Lake; Wollaston Lake; Black Lake; Fond du Lac; Stony Rapids; Uranium City; Camsell Portage; northern Saskatchewan

• Type of Item

  Conference/Workshop Poster

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-n3h2-rg61

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International