The People of Denendeh

This impressive collection brings together the results of June Helm's fifty years of studying the culture and ethnohistory of the Dene, Athapaskan-speaking Indians of the Mackenzie River drainage of the western subarctic. In addition to her previously published essays - with updated commentary where necessary - The People of Denendeh includes unpublished field notes, archival d...

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June Helm is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Iowa, past president of the American Anthropological Association, and editor of The Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 6: Subarctic. In the 1970s she served as adviser on land claims research to the Indian Brotherhood (later the Dene First Nations) of Canada's Northwest Territories and consultant to Ca...

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