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Chipewyan
Handbook of North American Indians. Subarctic • 6 • Published In 1981 • Pages: 271-284, 741-804
By: Smith, James G. E..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source provides a succinct ethnographic survey of the Chipewyan people, a northeastern Athapaskan group living in the Mackenzie-Hudson Bay drainage area of Canada, from the period of 1715 to approximately 1960. Major topics deal with language, territory and environment, the history of Indian-white contacts (with emphasis of the fur trade), and cultural changes that have taken place in Chipewyan society during the early contact period of 1715-1821, and later traditional period of 1821-1960. There is an extensive bibliography (see category 113, pp. 741-804).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Culture summary
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Chipewyans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Arctic and Subarctic
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1989-1991
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1715- ca. 1960
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Alberta, Saskatchewan, Northwest Territories, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] James G. E. Smith
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 741-804)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 77017162
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Chipewyan Indians--Social life and customs