This innovative blend of oral history and anthropological commentary documents how the Dane-zaa survived and flourished for millennia in northern BC.
The Dane-zaa people have lived in BC's Peace River area for
thousands of years. Elders documented their peoples' history and
worldview, passing them on through storytelling. Language loss,
however, threatens to break the bonds of knowledge transmission. At the
request of the Doig River First Nations, anthropologists Robin and
Jillian Ridington present a history of the Dane-zaa people based on
oral histories collected over a half century of fieldwork. These
powerful stories not only preserve traditional knowledge for future
generations, they also tell the inspiring story of how the Dane-zaa
learned to succeed and flourish in the modern world.
