This text can be viewed somewhat as a continuation of Rushforth’s 1984 framework of Sahtú Athapaskan values (capability, generosity, autonomy, and self-control or emotional restraint). In this book, Rushforth and Chisholm unpack these values and discuss them as continuous, throughout time and across generations. 

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The Bearlake Athapaskan-speaking Indians of Canada's Northwest Territories have valued industriousness, generosity, individual autonomy, and emotional restraint for many generations. They also highly esteem "control" in human thought and behavior. The latter value integrates the others in a coherent framework of moral responsibility that persists as a central feature of Bearlake culture. Rushforth here provides an ethnographic description and analysis of these beliefs and values, which considers their relationship to examples of Bearlake social behavior.

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ISBN-13: 9780816512416

Rushforth, Scott and James S. Chisholm. Cultural persistence: Continuity in meaning and moral responsibility among the Bearlake Athapaskans. Tucson and London: The University of Arizona Press, 1991.