This article was contributed to a series of edited reference texts produced by the Smithsonian Institution. The Handbook of North American Indians attempts to describe all North American Indigenous peoples, in culture, language, and history. Savishinsky and Hara provide 1980s reference points for settlement patterns, community organization, trade, and other aspects of cultural, linguistic, and social structure.

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This is part of the Smithsonian Institution’s Handbook of North American Indians series, the ultimate resource for Native American history across various regions of North America. The set is intended to give an encyclopedic summary of what is know about the prehistory, history, and cultures of the aboriginal peoples of North America north of the urban civilizations of central Mexico.

This volume describes the prehistory, history, and cultures of the aboriginal people of North America who lived in the Subarctic culture area, defined as extending from the coast of Labrador on the Atlantic Ocean to Cook Inlet and beyond on the Pacific. 

William C. Sturtevant, general editor; June Helm, volume editor. 

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Savishinsky, Joel S. and Hiroko Sue Hara. “Hare.” In Handbook of North American Indians, edited by June Helm, 314-325. Subarctic 6. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1981.

This article by Beryl Gillespie was contributed to a series of edited reference texts produced by the Smithsonian Institution. The Handbook of North American Indians attempts to describe all North American Indigenous peoples, in culture, language, and history. Gillespie’s texts provide 1980s reference points for Sahtú-region settlement patterns, community organization, trade, and other aspects of cultural, linguistic, and social structure.

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This is part of the Smithsonian Institution’s Handbook of North American Indians series, the ultimate resource for Native American history across various regions of North America. The set is intended to give an encyclopedic summary of what is know about the prehistory, history, and cultures of the aboriginal peoples of North America north of the urban civilizations of central Mexico.

This volume describes the prehistory, history, and cultures of the aboriginal people of North America who lived in the Subarctic culture area, defined as extending from the coast of Labrador on the Atlantic Ocean to Cook Inlet and beyond on the Pacific. 

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Gillespie, Beryl C. “Bearlake Indians.” In Subarctic. Volume 6: Handbook of North American Indians, edited by June Helm, 310-313. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1981.

This article by Beryl Gillespie was contributed to a series of edited reference texts produced by the Smithsonian Institution. The Handbook of North American Indians attempts to describe all North American Indigenous peoples, in culture, language, and history. Gillespie’s texts provide 1980s reference points for Sahtú-region settlement patterns, community organization, trade, and other aspects of cultural, linguistic, and social structure.

Description of the Series: 

This is part of the Smithsonian Institution’s Handbook of North American Indians series, the ultimate resource for Native American history across various regions of North America. The set is intended to give an encyclopedic summary of what is know about the prehistory, history, and cultures of the aboriginal peoples of North America north of the urban civilizations of central Mexico.

This volume describes the prehistory, history, and cultures of the aboriginal people of North America who lived in the Subarctic culture area, defined as extending from the coast of Labrador on the Atlantic Ocean to Cook Inlet and beyond on the Pacific. 

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Gillespie, Beryl C. “Mountain Indians.” In Subarctic. Volume 6: Handbook of North American Indians, edited by June Helm, 326-337. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1981.

Hara’s work focuses on the Fort Good Hope region of the Sahtú, and uses both ethnographic data and secondary research to try to describe the settlement’s culture, religion, and worldview as faithfully as possible.

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Hara, Hiroko Sue. The Hare Indians and their world. Canadian Ethnology Service Paper 63. Gatineau: National Museum of Man, 1980.

This paper provides an overview of change in the Dene economy throughout time, and current potential for creating a sustainable economy that can support self-determination using renewable resources in the Northwest Territories.

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Asch, Michael. “The Economics of Dene Self-Determination.” In Challenging Anthropology: A Critical Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology, edited by D. Turner and G. Smith, 339-352. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1979.

Basso describes stories about “bushmen” in northern Dene communities, and argues that they do not simply reflect a fear of the supernatural. Rather, she contends, they may act as explanations for concerns about social relationships, shifting technology, seasonal changes, and the inexplicable.

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A variety of “bushman” images are found throughout the Northern Athapaskan area. They have been typically characterized as supernatural beliefs arising in response to fears of dangers in the natural and social environments and to ignorance of true causes of events. I argue in this paper that an understanding of the images must also take into account the cultural and social systems that govern their creation and use in personal narratives. In particular, the images within one region, the central Mackenzie River valley, must be understood in terms of the focal concerns of seasonality, supernatural power, social relationships, and technology, as well as the explanatory uses to which the narratives are put.

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Basso, Ellen. “The enemy of every tribe: “Bushman” images in Northern Athapaskan narratives.” American Ethnologist 5, no. 4 (1978): 690-709.

Harald Beyer Broch wrote extensively on fieldwork in the Sahtú region, but this article is not available on most online platforms. 

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Broch, Harald Beyer. Forest Fire Fighting - a Light on Hare Indian Social Organization. Folk 19, no 20 (1977): 103-112.

Rushforth’s dissertation develops for the first time the crystallized ideas found in his other publications (in the collection of academic resources) written in the 1980s. It is based on anthropological fieldwork conducted in the 1970s.

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Rushforth's dissertation is available from the University of Arizona: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/289691

Rushforth, Everett Scott. Kinship and social organization among the Great Bear Lake Indians: A cultural decision-making model. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Arizona, 1977.

In this text, Rushforth drew from fieldwork in the 1970s to focus on harvesting.

Rushforth's chapter is a part of The Colony Within, which has its own entry in this catalogue. 

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Rushforth, Scott. “Country Food.” In Dene Nation: The colony within, edited by Mel Watkins, 32-46. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1977.

This document is part of a study done for the Indian Brotherhood of the Northwest Territories for Submission to the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry. It forms part of an overall effort to document traditional land use and occupancy during the 1970s.

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This document was an unpublished paper prepared for presentation to the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry. It is archived by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada: http://science-catalogue.canada.ca/record=3994070~S6

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Rushforth, Scott. “The Dene and Their Land.” In Recent Land-Use by the Great Bear Lake Indians, Indian Brotherhood of the Northwest Territories volume 3, part 2 (1976): 1-65.