essay
Territorial expansion of the Chipewyan in the 18th century
National Museum of Canada • (27) • Published In 1975 • Pages: 351-388
By: Gillespie, Beryl C..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This paper, based on secondary material, attempts to disprove the generally held belief maintained by historians and ethnologists that the Cree Indians were the aggressors toward their Athapaskan neighbors in the latter part of the 18th and early 19th centuries, and it was the Cree themselves who were the original inhabitants of the Churchill River drainage. Later, as the result of the economic stimulation provided by the fur trade it was the Chipewyan Athapaskans who moved into Cree territory and were the 'invaders'. This source provides some interesting insights into the early days of the fur trade and on Cree-Chipewyan relations.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History
- External trade
- External relations
- 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
- 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
- late 18th - early 19th centuries
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Churchill River drainage, Manitoba to Lake Athabasca, Saskatchewan, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Beryl C. Gillespie
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 386-388)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Chipewyan Indians