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Western Woods Creeessay 1981 • Smith, James G. E.
Western Woods Cree • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
This document is a brief summary of some of the major features of Western Woods Cree ethnography from the seventeenth century to the late twentieth, with a strong emphasis on the western Swampy Cree and the Rocky Cree. Topics discussed in this study ...On the territorial distribution of the Western Woods Creearticle 1976 • Smith, James G. E.
Western Woods Cree • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
The purpose of this paper is to assemble the data pertaining to the very late pre- and proto-historic distribution of the Western Woods Cree, and to indicate that their occupation of western Manitoba, Saskatchewan and possibly Alberta belongs to the ...The Western Woods Creearticle 1987 • Smith, James G. E.
Western Woods Cree • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
The Cree are believed to have been located east of Lake Winnipeg at the time of initial European contact. According to this belief, French and English guns gave them technological superiority over their neighbors to the west, permitting them to rapid...Chipewyanessay 1981 • Smith, James G. E.
Chipewyans • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
This source provides a succinct ethnographic survey of the Chipewyan people, a northeastern Athapaskan group living in the Mackenzie-Hudson Bay drainage area of Canada, from the period of 1715 to approximately 1960. Major topics deal with language, t...The ecological basis of Chipewyan socio-territorial organizationessay 1975 • Smith, James G. E.
Chipewyans • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
This paper attemps to establish the relationship between socio-territorial organization, and the environment in terms of the Chipewyan knowledge of the migrational and nomadic habits of the barren-ground caribou herds. The author presents evidence in...Local band organization of the Caribou-eater Chipewyanarticle 1976 • Smith, James G. E.
Chipewyans • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
This is a historical look at Chipewyan band organization based on archival material and the author's own fieldwork. The Chipewyan social aggregations have varied greatly over time from extended family 'task groups' to gatherings of several hundred pe...The emergence of the micro-urban village among the Caribou-eater Chipewyanarticle 1978 • Smith, James G. E.
Chipewyans • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
In this study, Smith examines how the change from a nomadic to sedentary way of life has impacted Caribou-Eater Chipewyan patterns of kinship and leadership. The Caribou-Eater Chipewyan were the last Chipewyan band to settle down. Historically they w...Chipewyan and Inuit in the central Canadian subarctic, 1613-1977article 1979 • Smith, James G. E. & Burch, Ernest S.
Chipewyans • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
This is a history of Innuit-Chipewyan relations. The literature has depicted them as arch enemies, however there is much evidence in the archival material to show that throughout most of the period their relations were peaceful and even amicable, wit...