Article on the Ipili in the Ottowa Citizen

The Ottowa Citizen has published a “lengthy article on the Ipili and Placer”:http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=26bacccd-fa28-4f96-b067-a436b6a6d881 by Kelly Patterson. Patterson spent a LOT of time emailing me about the article and I’m quoted extensively in it. She’s also interviewed my colleagues Jerry Jacka and Glenn Banks. It is a little strange seeing one’s words reproduced on the page, but I guess that turn about is fair play and as an anthropologist I’m the last person who should complain about how strange it is being reported upon! The article is quite long and does an excellent job of summing up what has become an incredibly complex and emotional topic, for which Patterson deserves credit. I am sure that it will not please everyone, and that several of the groups party to Porgeran politics will feel that they have not been sympathetically rendered, and that others got off too light. But this is just the way things go in the valley.

I’d recommend the article to friends and family interested in learning a little bit more about some of the issues involved in my fieldsite.