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This 6 page paper discusses the methods Hugh Brody used to write his book "Maps and Dreams," and how his combination of the scientific method and humanism produced a work on the Athapascan culture. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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book Maps and dreams. Discussion The title of the book tells us a great deal about it before we even turn to the first page: we know that Brody is
going to deal with the way in which the geography of the area, and the lands the Native Americans live on, have shaped their culture. The Athapaskan Indians of British
Columbia are such a culture, and it is these people that Brody meets and writes about. The area of the province in which they live is "a world of forest,
prairie, and muskeg; of rainbow trout, moose, and caribou; of Indian hunters and trappers. It is also a world of boomtowns and bars, oil rigs and seismic soundings; of white
energy speculators, ranchers, and sports hunters" (Maps and dreams). This description (from the books publisher) clearly tells us that Brody is going to be dealing with an area of
the country that has a dual nature. On one hand it is the country of white Canadians, who have brought oil drilling, energy companies and leisure pursuits to the area;
on the other hand it is a place where traditional tribal values are observed and in which the Indians lived as they have lived for centuries. Brodys job is to
find a way to describe both cultures without any of the sentimentality that comes with an examination of native cultures, and without demonizing whites unfairly. Brodys "mission" was twofold; he
was to "map" the "lands of northwest British Columbia as well as the way of life of a small group of Beaver Indians with a viable hunting economy living in
the path of a projected oil pipeline" (Maps and dreams). The fact that the tribe was in the way of the projected pipeline is in fact what appears to have
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