Stored in the Bones

Agnieszka Pawlowska-Mainville is UNESCO Chair in Living Heritage and Sustainable Livelihoods and associate professor in Global and International Studies at the University of Northern British Columbia.

Introduction Chapter 1: Living Heritage Chapter 2: Intangible Heritage Chapter 3: "The last one to know" Chapter 4: "'Clean energy,' they say" Chapter 5: "The land will stand for you" Conclusion Appendix 1 Intangible Cultural Heritage Inventorying Card Appendix 2 Inventory Guidelines Appendix 3 Useful Resources Abbreviations Glossary of Anishinaabemowin and Inninumowin Terms Bibliography Notes Index

"Pawlowska-Mainville's book is a necessary read for anyone interested in the practice of cultural preservation efforts both within Indigenous communities and with regards to other at risk communities. Very few academic texts leave my hands with tears on the page, and hers was one of them. The book is a deep portrait of intellect, passion, and kindness with a rallying call for cultural mobilisation."--Claire Grenier "JACANZS" "The book considers how intangible cultural heritage (ICH) is missing from existing consultative processes, with the result being an impoverished ability for settler colonial governments and industry to register, acknowledge, and mitigate the impact of their decisions and actions on Indigenous livelihoods, heritage, sovereignty, and governance... Using the lens of international ICH efforts enables Pawlowska-Mainville to create a narrative in which Indigenous nations are (or could be) interlocutors with nations around the globe. A powerful message within the book is that, when it comes to ICH, the Canadian state is not the status quo; it is behind the times." --Cara Krmpotich "American Indian Culture and Research Journal" "In Stored in the Bones, Pawlowska-Mainville mixes the rich stories of her Indigenous guides--including Anishinaabe/Ojibwe medicine man Richard Morrison, Poplar River trapper Abel Bruce, and Inninu trapper Noah Massan--with the practical aspects of preserving intangible cultural heritage. Their oral storytelling is an example of cultural heritage preservation, as all three men passed away before the book was published." --Shari Narine "Windspeaker"