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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.

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OCLC: ocm50320890
ISBN: 1587293293 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9781587293290 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xx, 387 pages) : illustrations, maps
Publisher: University of Iowa Press, ©2000.

Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-384) and index.
Contents:	pt. 1. Community and livelihood at midcentury -- pt. 2. Looking back in time -- pt. 3. Being Dene.
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impressive collection she brings together previously published essays - with updated commentaries where necessary - unpublished field notes, archival documents, supplementary essays and notes from collaborators, and narratives by the Dene themselves as an offering to those studying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 and as.