The people of Denendeh : ethnohistory of the Indians of Canada's Northwest Territories / June Helm ; with contributions by Teresa S. Carterette and Nancy O. Lurie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Helm, June, 1924-

Contributor:

Lurie, Nancy Oestreich.

Carterette, Teresa S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnohistory--Northwest Territories.

Ethnohistory.

Athapascan Indians--Northwest Territories--Social life and customs.

Athapascan Indians.

Athapascan Indians--Northwest Territories--History.

Northwest Territories--Social life and customs.

Northwest Territories.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 387 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2000.

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in this impressive collection she brings together previously published essays-with updated commentaries where necessary-unpublished field notes, archival documents, supplementary essays and notes from collaborators, and narratives by the Dene themselves as an offering to those studying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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [369]-384) and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Helm, June, 1924- People of Denendeh.

ISBN:

9781587293290

1587293293

OCLC:

50320890