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:0773511504 (softcover) :
ISBN:0773509925 (bound) :
ISBN:9780773511507 (softcover) :
ISBN:9780773509924 (bound) :
Physical Description:xx, 339 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. print
Publisher:Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993.
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