Osgood drafted this text as a monograph based on 14 months of fieldwork from 1928 to 1929, for the National Museum of Canada. This detailed text includes notes on the history, ways of life, materials, arts, social organization, and faith of peoples around Great Bear Lake (including, in his terms, the Sahtudenes, the Dogribs, Hares, Slaves, Yellowknifes, and Mountain Nations). It also contains some pertinent details about health, waves of influenza, and the relationships between visitors and Indigenous peoples.

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Osgood, Cornelius. “The Ethnography of the Great Bear Lake Indians.” In Annual report for 1931: National Museum of Canada Bulletin 70 (1932): 31-97.