Indigenous Toponyms as Pedagogical Tools: Reflections from Research with Tl'azt'en Nation, British Columbia

Apart from conventional understandings of its utilitarian function as spatial labels (often eponymous in character), toponymy is seldom appreciated as palimpsest or for the layers of meaning it assumes, conveyed in place-name etymologies and local knowledge associated with the named places. Over the...

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Main Authors: Karen Heikkilä, Gail Fondahl
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Geographical Society of Finland 2010-05-01
Series:Fennia: International Journal of Geography
Online Access:http://ojs.tsv.fi/index.php/fennia/article/view/2531/3450