Further Details

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

Missing Information?

Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.