Moose-Deer Island house people : A history of the native people of Fort Resolution /

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History of the native people of Fort Resolution, NWT from the beginning of the fur trade on Great Slave Lake in 1786 to 1972.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, David Merrill
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ottawa : National Museums of Canada, 1982.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Indiens > Amerique du Nord > Territoires du Nord-Ouest > Histoire.
Ethnologie
Metis.
Indians of North America.
Chipewyan Indians.
Acculturation.
Racially mixed people.
Indiens d'Amerique > Territoires du Nord-Ouest > Histoire.
Metis > Canada > Histoire.
Acculturation > Territoires du Nord-Ouest.
Metis > Territoires du Nord-Ouest.
Chippewyan (Indiens) > Histoire.
Metis > Northwest Territories.
Racially mixed people > Northwest Territories.
Acculturation > Northwest Territories.
Indians of North America > Northwest Territories > History.
Chipewyan Indians > History.
Metis > History.
Ojibwa.
Fort Resolution
Northwest Territories > Fort Resolution.
Northwest Territories.
Fort Resolution (N.W.T.) > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter I.
  • Chipewyan culture: the aboriginal baseline
  • distribution and physical environment
  • aspects of material culture and economy
  • socioterritorial organization
  • kinship structure and behavior
  • courtship and marriage
  • other aspects of Chipewyan life-cycle
  • leadership
  • Traditonal magic and religion
  • curing, divining and social control
  • aggressive inkonze
  • inkonze, subsistence group activities, and leadership
  • Chapter II.
  • The early contact-traditional phase: 1786
  • 1890
  • the founding of Fort Resolution
  • early Chipewyan trading at Fort Resolution
  • nature of Chipewyan involvement in the fur trade
  • emergence of trading chiefs
  • disease and fur trade competition as they affected Chipewyan adaptations
  • Metis adaptation
  • missionization and the Chipewyan adaptation
  • status of Fort Resolution as a trading post
  • Chapter III.
  • The end of the Hudson's Bay Company monopoly and the end of the early contact traditional phase
  • Chapter IV.
  • All native hamlets
  • social structure of all native hamlets
  • seasonal round of all native hamlets
  • Little Buffalo River people
  • Rocher River people
  • enter the dominion government: Treaty no. 8
  • native in-gatherings and other changes related to the fur trade expansion
  • trading
  • treaty time
  • Christmas and New Years
  • Easter
  • white trappers
  • contagious and chronic disease
  • metis adaptation
  • end of the late contact-traditional phase
  • Chapter V.
  • Native life in the micro-urban years
  • economic, ecological and socio-political problems for adapting to modern life
  • trapping
  • hunting
  • fishing
  • socio-political and other adaptive problems
  • Chapter VI.
  • Problems relating to Metis-Indian interrelations
  • problems relating to native-white relations
  • Conclusion.

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