The resilience of the Babine: The economic and social relations of the Babine to 1830.

Bouchard, Blake Emile

doi:10.24124/2012/bpgub850

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“…Fort Kilmaurs was eventually shut down due to ineffective trading practices and the resilience of the existing Babine trade connections to the west (Bouchard, 2012). The HBC continued to perceive that the Babine Lake-Stuart Lake corridor could become a strategically important trade corridor, and the presence of traders in the area grew over time.…”

Section: The Barricade Treaty Amalgamation and Migrationmentioning

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“…Historically, much of the social and economic relationships of the Babine people happened on an east-west corridor. To the east of Babine Lake is Stuart Lake, a large lake that formed a traditional trade corridor for the Babine and the peoples to the east; however, trade was primarily to the west with the Wet'suwet'en and Gitxsan because the peoples to the west provided access to traditional trade goods from the Pacific Coast (Bouchard, 2012). The Bah'lats system of governance, known also as the feast or the potlatch, came from the cultural groups to the west as well, serving as a factor for long and productive trade relationships.…”

Section: The Babine and The Lake Babine Nationmentioning

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Understanding conceptions of land tenure in the Lake Babine Nation.

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Section: The Barricade Treaty Amalgamation and Migrationmentioning

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Section: The Babine and The Lake Babine Nationmentioning

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Understanding conceptions of land tenure in the Lake Babine Nation.

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“…The idea that the burgeoning fur trade was responsible for social complexity relies on a compressed timeframe to just a generation or two. This was hardly enough time for the diffusion of coastal social traits inland to bring about a fundamental change in the Babine way of life (Bouchard 2012, Ray 1991). …”

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“…The primary argument in this thesis is that the timeframe for this diffusion of social complexity occurred prior to the fur trade and not a consequence of it. Recent research indicates that organized trade networks, ranked houses, and the appearance of individual status inequality may have a much greater antiquity for the Babine First Nations than the proto-historic era (Bouchard 2012;Rahemtulla 2012). In 2010 and 2012, Rahemtulla excavated an abandoned village site (GiSq-4) at the north end of Babine Lake on the outlet of the Babine River where cultural material was dated no later than AD 700.…”

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Smoke on the water: uncovering a socially complex pre-contact Babine fishing village at Nass Glee (GISQ-4)

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For the last century there has been very little modification to the geographic boundaries for the Northwest coast culture area, as defined by anthropologists. Moreover, complex hunter-gatherer models, which identify the hallmarks for social complexity of coastal First Nations, tend to exclude inland and up-river societies. Although academics recognize a post-contact complexity at Babine Lake, they have relied primarily on ethnographic sources which implied that ranked and socially stratified societies emerged only in response to the social and economic influences of the fur trade. However, recent research indicates that Babine society possessed complex trade networks, ranked houses, inherited lineages, individual wealth, and status inequality long before the fur trade era. Excavations at the salmon fishing village GiSq-4, on the Babine River, indicate that these social attributes have a much greater antiquity than the proto-historic era. Using archaeological and documentary evidence, which was unavailable for much of the last century, this thesis argues that a socially stratified and complex society at Babine Lake pre-dated the fur trade by at least several hundred years. This coastal style social complexity and stratification warrants a re-examination of current archaeological models on the Northwest Coast culture group area.iii

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The resilience of the Babine: The economic and social relations of the Babine to 1830.

Cited by 2 publications

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Understanding conceptions of land tenure in the Lake Babine Nation.

Understanding conceptions of land tenure in the Lake Babine Nation.

Smoke on the water: uncovering a socially complex pre-contact Babine fishing village at Nass Glee (GISQ-4)

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