Drum songs : glimpses of Dene history
1993
Book
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.
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9780773511507
- 9780773509924
- 0773511504
- 0773509925
- 0773500925
Description: xx, 339 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references: pages 309-331.
Contents:
- 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
LCCN: 94182485 //r95
Control Number: 49100
Publisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [1993]