The people of Denendeh : ethnohistory of the Indians of Canada's Northwest Territories /
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 - w...
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
©2000.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.