Returning home

Heritage work among the Stl'atl'imx of the Lower Lillooet River Valley

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5700639
AutoresErin L S Gibson (0000-0002-9867-4091, University of Northern British Columbia, autor correspondente), Erin Gibson (0000-0003-4209-348X), Erin B Gibson (0000-0002-0422-7400, University of Northern British Columbia)
Ano2017
Volume23
Fascículo3
Páginas183-199
Data de publicação2017-03-16
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Journal of Heritage Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1352-7258 • E-ISSN: 1470-3610
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13527258.2016.1261921
OpenAlexW2567337305
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas26

This article focusses on heritage practices in the tensioned landscape of the Stl’atl’imx (pronounced Stat-lee-um) people of the Lower Lillooet River Valley, British Columbia, Canada. Displaced from their traditional territories and cultural traditions through the colonial encounter, they are enacting, challenging and remaking their heritage as part of their long term goal to reclaim their land and return ‘home’. I draw on three examples of their heritage work: graveyard cleaning, the shifting ‘official’/‘unofficial’ heritage of a wagon road, and marshalling of the mountain named Nsvq’ts (pronounced In-SHUCK-ch) in order to illustrate how the past is strategically mobilised in order to substantiate positions in the present. While this paper focusses on heritage in an Indigenous and postcolonial context, I contend that the dynamics of heritage practices outlined here are applicable to all heritage practices

Archaeology · Colonialism · Cultural heritage · Cultural heritage management · Geography · Indigenous · Industrial heritage · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Engineering · History · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights