“Breakdown and Survival of a Conservation System: Waswanipi Game Management in Historical Perspective and Stories.”

This paper examines how local game management conservation systems have to be understood historically, as local and regional cultural practices, and as linked with national and international economic and political conditions and interventions. In the 1920s and 1930s in the Waswanipi region of northern Québec, Cree hunters abandoned certain practices related to their own conservation models because of external interventions. It was not the …