Book

What they used to tell about: Indian legends from Labrador

McClelland and Stewart Limited • Toronto • Published In 1969 • Pages:

By: Desbarats, Peter.

Abstract
This is a collection of Montagnais-Naskapi oral traditions collected in 1967. The stories were recorded in Montagnais and translated by bilingual Indians.
Subjects
Ethos
Verbal arts
Cosmology
Community structure
Annual cycle
Settlement patterns
General character of religion
culture
Innu
HRAF PubDate
2009
Region
North America
Sub Region
Arctic and Subarctic
Document Type
Book
Evaluation
Creator Type
Unknown
Document Rating
4: Excellent Secondary Data
Analyst
Eleanor C. Swanson ; 1977-1978
Field Date
no date
Coverage Date
1962
Coverage Place
Labrador Peninsula (Quebec, and Newfoundland and Labrador provinces), Canada
Notes
Collected by the Department of Anthropology of the University of Montreal ; Edited and introduced by Peter Desbarats
The names of the informants and translators appear at the beginning of each text and will be found in OCM Literary Texts (539). Bibliographic footnotes to the introductory chapter will be found in OCM Information Sources in Other Works (113), p. xix.
Includes bibliographical references
LCCN
78458272
LCSH
Innu Indians