Indigenous Place-Based Case Studies – Case study : Arctic Foundation : Gordon Foundation

Description

We explore the Gordon Foundation to understand how social constructions of placed are defined in Indigenous contexts through cultural and community. In this context, social constructions of the North and its points of reference are less easy to define. We attempt to narrate this throughout the case study with perspectives of sense of place as home – home to peoples, animals, fish and landscapes. The Gordon Foundation capitalizes the North, as do the authors, to distinguish between the use of directions and the naming of places and homes. Throughout the chapter, we capitalize directions when they are referring to peoples or places, and we use the lower case, when referring to directions.