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Drum songs : glimpses of Dene history / Kerry Abel.
This book is intended to reconstruct some important moments in Dene history in order to answer the question of how these northern people have been able to maintain a sense of cultural distinctiveness in the face of economic, cultural and politcial pressures from European newcomers to their homelands in northern and western Canada.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780773509924 (bound) :
- ISBN: 9780773511507 (softcover) :
- ISBN: 0773509925 (bound) :
- ISBN: 0773511504 (softcover) :
- Physical Description: xx, 339 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993.
- Copyright: ©1993
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-331) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 1. When the Earth Was New -- 2. Life in the Eighteenth Century -- 3. The Stone House People -- 4. The New Traders -- 5. War Songs, 1821 to 1848 -- 6. Prophets, Priests, and Preachers -- 7. Trappers and Traders -- 8. In Witness Whereof -- 9. Canada and the Dene Nation: Economics -- 10. Canada and the Dene Nation: Society and Politics -- 11. Drum Songs |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Smithers Public Library | ANF 971.00497 ABE (Text) | 35101000171640 | Adult Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
