Book
The Snowdrift Chipewyan
Northern Co-ordination and Research Centre, Dept. of Northern Affairs and National Resources • Ottawa, Ont. • Published In 1963 • Pages: 2, 4, 115
By: VanStone, James W..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an intensive study of the isolated community of Snowdrift in the Mackenzie-River-Great Slave Lake area of Canadian Northwest Territories. A preliminary report dealing primarily with the economy of Snowdrift was undertaken by the author in the summer of 1960 under contract to the Northern Co-ordination and Research Centre of the Canadian government. This report appears as source 2: VanStone in this file. The present source is a continuation of the author's field work at the village during the summer of 1961 and for a month in the winter of 1961-1962, and deals with the general historical background of the community, the annual cycle (primarily in terms of hunting, trapping and fishing), material culture and subsistence, the life cycle from birth to death, social structure and community life, the individual in relationship to his culture, and religion. Throughout the report the author notes the pervasive effects of white acculturation on native institutions.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Culture summary
- History
- Sociocultural trends
- Annual cycle
- 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
- Book
- 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.
- 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
- 1960-1962
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- eighteenth century - 1962
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Snowdrift, Mackenzie River-Great Slave Lake area, Northwest Territories , Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] James W. VanStone
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 111-115)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Chipewyan Indians--Social life and customs/Accultu