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'Always with them either a feast or a famine'article 1993 • Helm, June
Chipewyans • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
In this paper, Helm estimates the food and calorie intake of 18th-century Chipewyans based on the detailed journal kept by the trader Peter Filder. Filder traveled with a party of Chipewyans between Great Slave Lake and Lake Athapasca, from September...The Lynx Point peopleBook 1961 • Helm, June
Slavey • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
Finding most previous research focused on reconstructing traditional Slavey culture, this major study provides contrast by looking instead at the social dynamics of a community in the midst of a unique series of cooperative ventures to gain some degr...Folktales of the Slave Indiansarticle 1955 • Helm, June
Slavey • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
This document presents a number of admittedly fragmentary Slavey folktales and legends....Contemporary folk beliefs of a Slave Indian bandarticle 1954 • Helm, June
Slavey • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
Along with a generous amount of commentary and contextualization, this document presents a number of Slavey folktales and legends....Field notes on the Tahltan and Kaska Indiansarticle 1956 • Teit, James Alexander & Helm, June
Kaska • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
This article was edited and put together by J. H. MacNeish, from the notes of Teit, an ethnologist who worked for the Tahltan tribal council for several years. The article contains much descriptive information on habitat, clothing, ornament, tranport...Kaskaessay 1983 • Honigmann, John Joseph & Helm, June
Kaska • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
Originally published in the Handbook of North American Indians, this article provides general summary on Kaska culture and society. Much of the information pertains to the Upper Liard Kaska living snorthwest of Lower Post and, in less detail, the Dea...