bruce parry arctic
DESCRIPTION
Based on the BBC film and comparing the environment of the Gwitchin with the more developed tar oil sands to the southTRANSCRIPT
Bruce Parry ARCTIC
Caribou Herders of Canada
-Gwitchin tribe
-V Alberta
Synopsis
• Bruce travels to the far north of Canada to live with the Caribou people and witness their annual spring hunt. The Gwitchin tribe has hunted migrating caribou in the Arctic wilderness for thousands of years, but this tradition is now under threat from oil exploration.
• Bruce then heads south to the tar sands of Alberta, home to the second largest oil reserves in the world, to discover how native people cope when the oil industry moves into their territory.
Gwitchin
• In the Yukon territory in NW Canada
• Old Crow village in the middle of the Caribou migration
• Caribou migrate south in the winter because snow + ice covers the shrubs they feed on
• The caribou migrate northwards to the Arctic Wildlife National Refuge for spring feeding and raising of young.
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• Yukon Territory
• Arctic National Wildlife refuge
• Caribou Migration
• Porcupine River
• Old Crow
Yukon TerritoryArctic National Wildlife refugeCaribou MigrationPorcupine River
Old Crow
Caribou Migration
Prep
How do the Gwitchin ensure their hunting
remains sustainable?
SUSTAINABILITY• Small community who kill just what they need• Shoot males so females can calf• All of the animal is eaten – head, tongue,
bone marrowor used: furs, tools and instruments, • Smoke meat to preserve it and keep all year• Eat a variety of fowl too – geese and beaver• Take food back for poor and infirmed also
• SUBSISTENCE HUNTERS