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Drum songs : glimpses of Dene history
- Title
- Drum songs : glimpses of Dene history / Kerry Abel.
- Author
- Abel, Kerry M. (Kerry Margaret)
- Publication
- Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2005], ©2005.
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- Description
- xl, 339 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "The Dene nation is made up of of eighteen thousand people speaking five distinct languages and spread over 1.8 million square kilometres in the western Canadian subarctic. In the 1970s and 1980s, the campaign against the Mackenzie Valley pipeline, support for the leadership of Georges Erasmus in the Assembly of First Nations, and land claim negotiations with the federal government put the Dene on the leading edge of Canada's Native rights movement. Drum Songs reconstructs important moments in Dene history, offering a sympathetic treatment of their past, the impact of the fur trade, their interaction with Christian missionaries, and evolving relations with the Canadian federal government."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history, 0846-8869 ; 15
- Uniform Title
- McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history ; 15.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-331) and index.
- Contents
- 1. When the earth was new -- 2. Life in the eighteen century -- 3. The stone house people -- 4. The new traders -- 5. War songs, 1821 to 1848 -- 6. Prophets, priests, and preachers -- 7. Trappers and traders -- 8. In witness whereof -- 9. Canada and the Dene nation : economics -- 10. Canada and the Dene nation : society and politics -- 11. Drum songs.
- ISBN
- 0773530037
- OCLC
- ocm58930531
- SCSB-5213202
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries