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When the world was new : stories of the Sahtú Dene / George Blondin.

Title
When the world was new : stories of the Sahtú Dene / George Blondin.
Author
Blondin, George, 1922-2008
Publication
Yellowknife, N.W.T., Canada : Outcrop, the Northern Publishers, c1990.

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Description
iv, 246 p. : ill., map; 23 cm.
Summary
A collection of stories of the Sahtu Dene people of the Mackenzie Valley, Northwest Territories, both traditional and contemporary, dealing with history and cultural traditions as well as adaptations to social change. Oral history in book form, covering five generations of the Blondin family of Fort Franklin.
Subject
  • Blondin, George, 1922-2008
  • Tinne Indians > Folklore
  • Tinne Indians > Biography
  • Tinne Indians > Social life and customs
Genre/Form
  • Biographies
  • Folklore
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Tales the elders told -- Warriors and medicine heroes -- The story of Karkeye -- A life on the land / Paul Blondin -- The Dene world begins to change / Edward Blondin -- Living in two worlds / George Blondin.
ISBN
  • 1919315217
  • 1919315216 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
^^^91102800^//r94
OCLC
  • 24375552
  • SCSB-11776047
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library