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Title: Old Man’s Playing Ground Condition: New Subtitle: Gaming and Trade on the Plains/Plateau Frontier Author: Gabriel M. Yanicki Format: Paperback ISBN-10: 0776621386 EAN: 9780776621388 ISBN: 9780776621388 Publisher: University of Ottawa Press Genre: History Topic: Society & Culture, Social Sciences Release Date: 27/03/2014 Description: When Hudson's Bay Company surveyor Peter Fidler made contact with the Ktunaxa at the Gap of the Oldman River in the winter of 1792, his Piikani guides brought him to the river's namesake. These were the playing grounds where Napi, or Old Man, taught the various nations how to play a game as a way of making peace. In the centuries since, travellers, adventurers, and scholars have recorded several accounts of Old Man's Playing Ground and of the hoop-and-arrow game that was played there. Although it has been destroyed, much can be learned from an interdisciplinary study of Old Man's Playing Ground. Oral traditions of the Piikani and other First Nations of the Northwest Plains and Interior Plateau, together with textual records spanning centuries, show it to be a place of enduring cultural significance irrespective of its physical remains. Knowledge of the site and the hoop-and-arrow game played there is widespread, in keeping with historic and ethnographic accounts of multiple groups meeting and gambling at the site.In this work, oral tradition, history, and ethnography are brought together with a geomorphic assessment of the playing ground's most probable location-a floodplain scoured and rebuilt by floodwaters of the Oldman-and the archaeology of adjacent prehistoric campsite DlPo-8. Taken together,the locale can be understood as a nexus for cultural interaction and trade,through the medium of gambling and games, on the natural frontier between peoples of the Interior Plateau and Northwest Plains. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: CA Item Height: 241mm Item Length: 171mm Item Width: 14mm Item Weight: 600g Book Series: Mercury Series Release Year: 2014
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