Preface |
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Orthography |
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Names of Communities in Denendeh |
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Horde, Band, and Tribe Seen from Denendeh, an Introduction |
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Part I COMMUNITY AND LIVELIHOOD AT MIDCENTURY |
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The Bush Community and Trading Fort at Midcentury |
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23 | (7) |
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23 | (3) |
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26 | (4) |
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The Yearly Round of the People of ``Lynx Point,'' Jean Marie River, 1951--1952 |
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30 | (26) |
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30 | (5) |
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Living in and off the Land |
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35 | (21) |
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Fish Consumption, Rabbit Uses, and Caribou Hunting among the Dogribs |
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56 | (16) |
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56 | (1) |
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57 | (6) |
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63 | (9) |
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The Security Quest at ``Lynx Point,'' Jean Marie River, 1951--1952 |
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72 | (19) |
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Mode and Standard of Living |
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72 | (7) |
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79 | (12) |
Part II LOOKING BACK IN TIME |
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91 | (178) |
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95 | (9) |
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Effects of the Highway, Rae, 1967 |
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95 | (5) |
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News of Jean Marie River after Twenty Years, 1951--1971 |
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100 | (2) |
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Current Styles and Material Possessions, Rae, 1971 |
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102 | (2) |
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The Contact History of the Subarctic Athapaskans: An Overview |
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104 | (20) |
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Stages in Northern Athapaskan Contact History |
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106 | (8) |
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The Trading Post and the Mission |
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114 | (2) |
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Boom Frontier and Settled Frontier |
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116 | (1) |
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The Government-Commercial Era |
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117 | (3) |
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Epidemics and Population Patterns during the Contact-Traditional Stage |
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120 | (4) |
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Overview Hearing at the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry, 1975 |
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124 | (16) |
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Survey of Native Peoples and Linguistic Geography |
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125 | (2) |
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Contact History to World War II |
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127 | (5) |
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From World War II to the Present |
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132 | (6) |
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138 | (2) |
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Moving Back through the Full Fur and Mission Period |
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140 | (27) |
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The Influenza Epidemic of 1928 |
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140 | (3) |
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Native Occupation and Status in the Fur Trade, 1900--1925 |
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143 | (10) |
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The Signing of Treaty No. 8 at Fort Resolution in 1900 |
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153 | (6) |
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The Mackenzie Soul Rush of the 1860s |
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159 | (4) |
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Naedzo Looks Back at the Old Days |
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163 | (4) |
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167 | (25) |
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167 | (16) |
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Bosses, Leaders, and Trading Chiefs among the Dogribs |
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183 | (4) |
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Chiefly Succession among the Rae Dogribs, 1867--1971 |
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187 | (5) |
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Female Infanticide, European Diseases, and Population Levels among the Mackenzie Dene |
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192 | (28) |
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Nineteenth-Century Observers' Statements on Female Infanticide |
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193 | (1) |
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Sources of Population Data, 1820s--1920s |
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194 | (1) |
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The Censuses of 1829, 1858, 1891, and 1924: Sex Ratios |
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195 | (12) |
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European Diseases and Population Levels |
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207 | (5) |
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Toward Population Models: Discussion and Definition of Terms |
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212 | (4) |
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216 | (2) |
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218 | (2) |
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Dogrib Oral Tradition As History: War and Peace in the 1820s |
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220 | (14) |
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220 | (4) |
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224 | (2) |
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Historicity in Naedzo's Testimony |
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226 | (3) |
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229 | (2) |
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231 | (3) |
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234 | (16) |
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Living off the Land with the Chipewyan Indians in 1791--1792 |
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234 | (12) |
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When the First Pale Men Came to Lac la Martre |
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246 | (4) |
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250 | (19) |
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The Indian Brotherhood and the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry |
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250 | (6) |
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Dene Dependency and Dene Self-Determination |
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256 | (13) |
Part III BEING DENE |
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269 | (96) |
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Traditional Knowledge and Belief |
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271 | (22) |
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271 | (10) |
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281 | (12) |
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293 | (19) |
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295 | (6) |
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301 | (3) |
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The Hand Game in Dogrib Society |
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304 | (3) |
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Action in the Dogrib Hand Game: Photographs |
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307 | (5) |
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Enjoyments and Special Times |
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312 | (28) |
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312 | (3) |
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315 | (9) |
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New Year at ``Lynx Point'' |
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324 | (4) |
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Festivities of Treaty Time in Rae |
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328 | (7) |
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Women's Work, Women's Art |
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335 | (2) |
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337 | (3) |
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340 | (25) |
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Helene Rabesca, 1897--1996 |
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340 | (14) |
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Louis Norwegian, 1907--1977 |
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354 | (11) |
Afterword |
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365 | (2) |
A Note about the Contributors |
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367 | (2) |
References Cited |
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369 | (16) |
Index |
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