hagwil hayetsk (Charles Menzies)
Department of Anthropology
Office: AnSo 2305
Phone: 604 822 2240
Email: charles.menzies@ubc.ca
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Professor hagwil hayetsk’s (Charles Menzies) primary research interests are the production of anthropological films, natural resource management (primarily fisheries related), political economy, contemporary First Nations’ issues, maritime anthropology and the archaeology of north coast BC. He has conducted field research in, and has produced films concerning, north coastal BC, Canada (including archaeological research); Brittany, France; and Donegal, Ireland.
Hagwil hayetsk is a member of Gitxaała Nation on BC’s north coast and an enrolled member of the Tlingit and Haida Tribes of Alaska.
He graduated from Prince Rupert Secondary School in 1980. He subsequently completed an undergraduate degree in anthropology and sociology at Simon Fraser University in 1988. His graduate degrees were completed at York University (Social Anthropology, MA 1988) and City University of New York (Cultural Anthropology, PhD 1998).
His current research project, Laxyuup Gitxaaɫa, combines archaeological and socio-cultural anthropology to document the traditional territory of Gitxaaɫa Nation. Other projects include founding and directing the Ethnographic Film Unit at UBC, establishing an online journal, New Proposals (broken link), and acting as the coordinator of an ecological anthropology research group at UBC, Forests and Oceans for the Future (broken link).
- Sarah Grace Fessenden. 2017. We just wanna warm some bellies: Food Not Bombs, anarchism, and recycling wasted food for protest.
- Denise Nicole Green. 2014. Producing Materials, Places and Identities: A Study of Encounters in theAlberni Valley
- Janalyn Gail Kotaska. 2013. Reconciliation at the end of the day: decolonizing territorial governance in British Columbia after Delgamuukw
- Rachel Donkersloot. 2011. What keeps me here: gendered and generational perspectives on rural life and leaving in an Irish fishing locale.
- Caroline F. Butler. 2005. More than fish : political knowledge in the commercial fisheries of British Columbia.
- Kimberly Linkous Brown. 2005. To fish for themselves: a study of accommodation and resistance in the Stó:lō fishery.
- Katrin Schmid. 2020. Being Thorough: Cumulative Effects in Resurgent Gitxaała.
- Ada Parkhurt Smith. 2018. Toward decolonizing food literacy education: co-creating a curriculum at Lach Klan School with Gitxaala Nation.
- Celia Brauer. 2017. Paths to Sustainability:creating connections through place-based Indigenous knowledge.
- Marie-Elise Laforest. 2017. Gitxaała sovereignty: indigenous governance and industrial development.
- Jory Stariwat. 2016.Regulatory impacts on a Yup’ik fish camp in Southwest Alaska.
- Danielle Gendron. 2016.Eating Gitxaała, being Gitxaała: food and cultural security.
- Daniel Frim. 2015. Encountering the K’I’s A’ums: Reinterpretations of the Spirit Quest in Three 21st-Century Kwakwaka’wakw Narratives.
- Naomi H Smethurst. 2014. Inscribed on the landscape: stories of stone traps and fishing in Laxyuup Gitxaała
- Lauren Sacha Rodman. 2013. Spinning wind into power: industry and energy in Gitxaała Nation, British Columbia.
- Jonathon William Irons. 2012 (David Pokotylo, Primary supervisor). Ethnographic perspectives on Laxyuup Gitxaała.
- Morgan Elizabeth Moffit. 2012. Gitxaała marine use planning: making indigenous jurisdiction in contemporary aboriginal-state relations.
- Claudia Morgado. 2012. Getting to know the artist: understanding why artists are important contributors to the climate change conversation.
- Jennifer Wolowic. 2008. Research tools or collaborative toys? cameras and participatory research with youth.
- Jessica Rogers. 2007. Reshaping Crown-First Nation relationships amid changing contexts: an examination of the intersection between the Crown’s promise of a New Relationship and the implementations of the Forest and Range Agreement.
- Robin Anderson. 2007. Diabetes in Gitxaała: colonization, assimilation, and economic change.
- Sharon Anne Peterson. 2006. The politics of fit: the genesis of candidacy in a suburban municipality.
- Natalie Hemsing. 2005. Production of place: community, conflict and belonging at Wreck Beach.
- Morgan E. Smith. 2003. Managing by the numbers? examining barriers to harvest assessment in a Southeast Alaska subsistence salmon fishery.
- Lilian C. De La Peña. 2001. The rhetoric of co-management in Philipine fisheries.
- Atsuko Hasegawa. 2001. The situation and the evolution of forest management by Aboriginal people in British Columbia.
- Caroline F. Butler. 1998. Regulating tradition: Stó:lō wind drying, and aboriginal rights.