Research Catalog

Title

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.

Author

Helm, June, 1924-

Publication

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lurie, Nancy Oestreich.
• Carterette, Teresa S.

Description

xx, 389 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

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this impressive collection she brings together previously published essays--with updated commentaries where necessary--unpublished field notes, archival documents, supplementary essays

Series Statement

McGill-Queen's Native and northern series ; 24

Uniform Title

McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 24.

Subject

• Tinne Indians > Northwest Territories > Mackenzie River Region > History
• Tinne Indians
• Mackenzie River Region (N.W.T.) > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

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

Contents

Horde, band, and tribe seen from Denendeh, an introduction -- The bush community and trading fort at midcentury -- The yearly round of the people of "Lynx Point," Jean Marie River, 1951-1952 -- Fish consumption, rabbit uses, and caribou hunting among the Dogribs -- The security quest at "Lynx Point," Jean Marie River, 1951-1952 -- Changing times -- The contact history of the subarctic Athapaskans : an overview -- Overview hearing at the Mackenzie Valley pipeline inquiry, 1975 -- Moving back through the full fur mission period -- Traditional leadership -- Female infanticide, European diseases, and population levels among the Mackenzie Dene -- Dogrib oral tradition as history : war and peace in the 1820s -- Earliest contacts -- Looking to the future -- Traditional knowledge and belief -- The Dogrib hand game -- Enjoyments and special times -- Being Dene.

ISBN

• 0773521453
• 9780773521452
• 0773521461
• 9780773521469

OCLC

• ocm44495082
• 44495082
• SCSB-1200924

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library