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The Yukon River Ingalikarticle 1976 • VanStone, James W.
Ingalik • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
This historical study describes how habitat changes and fluctuating wildlife populations during the century after the arrival of Europeans in the 1830s affected Ingalik subsistence. While prim...Ingalik contact ecologyBook 1979 • VanStone, James W.
Ingalik • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
Drawing on historical sources, this document describes changes in the lifeways of the Ingalik through four major episodes over the first century and a half of Euro-American contact: 1) early e...Historic Ingalik settlements along the Yukon, Innoko, and Anvik Rivers, AlaskaBook 1979 • VanStone, James W.
Ingalik • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
This document seeks to reconstruct and explain changes in settlement patterns that have occurred in the area during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A number of historic period ar...The economy of a frontier communityBook 1961 • VanStone, James W.
Chipewyans • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
The material of this report was collected by the author during the summer of 1960, while under contract to the Northern Co-ordination and Research Centre of the Canadian government. This is a ...The Snowdrift ChipewyanBook 1963 • VanStone, James W.
Chipewyans • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
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 th...The changing culture of the Snowdrift ChipewyanBook 1965 • VanStone, James W.
Chipewyans • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
In contradiction to the general premise that culture change within the Mackenzie River Valley and Great Slave Lake region would tend to represent a relatively homogeneous universe of interacti...E. W. Nelson's Notes on the Indians of the Yukon and Innoko Rivers, AlaskaBook 1978 • Nelson, Edward William & VanStone, James W.
Ingalik • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
Following an historical preface, this document provides a naturalist’s notes on a journey through the lower-middle Yukon River region in the winter of 1880, including time spent among the Inga...