December 17, 2023 | CBC News via UVic News
Dr. Iain McKechnie, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Victoria, recently co-authored an article in the journal Science exploring how the ancestral Coast Salish loved and pampered a species of long-haired ‘woolly dogs’ whose undercoats they used for weaving blankets and textiles. In the nineteenth-century, colonialism forced the decline of these traditions.
For more information on the publication, the Copyright and Scholarly Communications Office encourages you to read CBC News’ profile of it.
If you are interested in reading more of Dr. McKechnie’s important work, we invite you to visit our institutional repository, UVicSpace, where 23 of his papers can be readily accessed.
