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1 online resource (xx, 387 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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1. Horde, band, and tribe seen from Denendeh, an introduction -- Part I: Community and Livelihood at Midcentury -- 2. The Bush community and trading fort at midcentury -- 3. The yearly round of the people of "Lynx Point," Jean Marie River, 1951-1952 -- 4. Fish consumption, rabbit uses, and caribou hunting among the Dogribs -- 5. The security quest at "Lynx Point," Jean Marie River, 1951-1952 -- Part II: Looking back in time -- 6. Changing times -- 7. The contact history of the subarctic Aathapaskans: an overview -- 8. Overview hearing at the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry, 1975 -- 9. Moving back through the full fur and mission period -- 10. Traditional leadership -- 11. Female infanticide, European diseases, and population levels among the Mackenzie Dene -- 12. Dogrib oral tradition as history: war and peace in the 1820s -- 13. Earliest contacts -- 14. Looking to the future -- Part III: Being Dene -- 15. Traditional knowledge and belief -- 16. The Dogrib hand game -- 17. Enjoyments and special times -- 18. Being Dene |
| Summary |
For fifty years anthropologist June Helm studied the culture and ethnohistory of the Dene, "The People," the Athapaskan-speaking Indians of the Mackenzie River drainage of Canada's western subarctic. Now in this impressive collection she brings together previously published essays - with updated commentaries where necessary - unpublished field notes, archival documents, supplementary essays and notes from collaborators, and narratives by the Dene themselves as an offering to those studying North American Indians, hunter-gatherers, and subarctic ethnohistory and as |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-384) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Athapascan Indians -- Northwest Territories -- History
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Athapascan Indians -- Northwest Territories -- Social life and customs
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Ethnohistory -- Northwest Territories
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HISTORY -- General.
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Athapascan Indians
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Athapascan Indians -- Social life and customs
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Ethnohistory
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Manners and customs
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Ethnohistoire -- Canada -- Territoires du Nord-Ouest (Canada)
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Athapascan (Indiens) -- Canada -- Territoires du Nord-Ouest (Canada) -- Histoire.
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Athapascan (Indiens) -- Canada -- Territoires du Nord-Ouest (Canada) -- Moeurs et coutumes.
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| SUBJECT |
Northwest Territories -- Social life and customs
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Northwest Territories
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Territoires du Nord-Ouest (Canada) -- Moeurs et coutumes.
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Electronic books
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Carterette, Teresa S.
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Lurie, Nancy Oestreich.
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| LC no. |
00034392 |
| ISBN |
9781587293290 |
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1587293293 |
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