Book
Moose-Deer island house people: a history of the native people of Fort Resolution
National Museums of Canada • (82) • Published In 1982 • Pages: ix, 202
By: Smith, David Merrill.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This a major historical ethnography of the Fort Resolution Chipewyan. Smith reconstructs the Chipewyan's aboriginal way of life and discusses their gradual assimilation during the contact period, which he divides into three phases. In the Early Contact-Traditional Phase (1786-1890), the Chipewyan participated in the fur trade, yet were able to maintain a traditional way of life, with some adjustments. The major adjustment was a shift in the territory they exploited from the transitional forest, where they hunted the Caribou, to the boreal forest, where the fur-bearing animals lived. The Late Contact-Traditional Phase (1890-1950) saw the intensification of commerce and trapping as a result of the loss of the Hudson Bay Company monopoly. This change led to a more sedentary life as more time was spent on the trap line. Following the terrible epidemics in the 1920s and 30s, more Chipewyan sought refuge in Fort Resolution. In the Micro-Urban Phase (1950-1975) the fur trade has all but disappeared and the Chipewyan have become dependent on wage employment and welfare.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Sociocultural trends
- Annual cycle
- Hunting and trapping
- Retail marketing
- Ethnic stratification
- External relations
- Disasters
- Religious denominations
- 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.
- 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
- Ian Skoggard ;1999
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1968-1972
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1786-1974
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Great Slave Lake region, Northwest Territories, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- David M. Smith
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-185)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 83105404
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Chipewyan Indians