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The Slavey indians: the relevance of ethnohistory to development
Native peoples: the Canadian experience • Toronto, Ont. • Published In 1986 • Pages: 271-296
By: Asch, Michael.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document contains the testimony of the author as an expert witness during an inquiry into the possible impacts of constructing a gas pipeline through the Mackenzie River Valley; largely an economic history of the peoples of the region and observations from the author’s own fieldwork among the Slavey. Based on the example of the expansion and collapse of the fur trade, it is argued that the pipeline should only be permitted after a land settlement with, and consent of, the native peoples. A brief epilogue describes events after a delay was imposed.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Cultural goals
- External trade
- Buying and selling
- Animal by-products
- Acculturation and culture contact
- External relations
- Oil and gas wells
- Research and development
- Functional and adaptational interpretations
- History
- Community structure
- Settlement patterns
- Annual cycle
- Hunting and trapping
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Slavey
- 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.
- Anthropologist
- 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
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2015
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1969-1970
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1750-1977
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- western Northwest Territories, northeastern British Colombia and northwestern Alberta, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- Michael Asch
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 296)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 86187110
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Slavey Indians