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Chipewyan
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures Supplement
Chipewyan ETHNONYMS: Dene, Northern Indians, Yellowknives Orientation Identification and Location. The Chipewyan inhabit the central Canadian subarctic region. The Chipewyan people call themselves collectively Dene (The People...
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Fort Chipewyan
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Fort Chipewyan , trading post, NE Alta., Canada, at the west end of Lake Athabasca. The old Fort Chipewyan, on the south shore, was built for the North West Company at the urging of Alexander Mackenzie in 1788. It formed the base from which...
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Lake Athabasca
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...the Slave River. Gold and uranium are found nearby. Fort Chipewyan was built (1788) at the west end of the lake by Roderick...the Hudson's Bay Company ply the lake in summer between Chipewyan and Fond du Lac, from where the canoe route runs by way of...
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Dogrib
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...neighboring Athapaskan-speaking peoples to the east, the Chipewyan, and to the north, the Copper Indians, were distinguishing...European goods were being traded to the Dogrib for furs by Chipewyan middlemen. With the Slavey to the west and the Hare Indians...
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Samuel Hearne
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...met with failure, but finally in Dec., 1770, guided by a Chipewyan , he set off on the third and successful expedition, which...territory. He gave an accurate and valuable account of the Chipewyan, and he proved that there was no short Northwest Passage...
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Slavey
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...Slavey, Bear-lake, Mountain, and Hare Indians. Dogrib and Chipewyan are other closely related northeastern Athapaskan languages...They are also culturally similar to the Athapaskan-speaking Chipewyan, Beaver, and Kaska Indians from northern Alberta and northern...
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Athabasca
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...fourth-largest lake in Canada, it is fed by the Athabasca River from the s and drained by the Slave River to the n . Fort Chipewyan (1788) is preserved at the w end of the lake. There are gold and uranium deposits nearby. Area: 8080sq km (3120sq mi...
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Lowie, Robert
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...tenure at the museum, Lowie carried out most of his ethnographic fieldwork, studying the Assiniboine, Northern Blackfoot, Chipewyan, Hidatsa, Southern Ute, Southern Paiute, Northern Paiute (Paviotso), Washo, and Hopi. Despite this wide range, Lowie...
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Cree, Western Woods
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...expansion into Beaver areas near Peace River. The Cree were bounded on the north by Athapaskan-speaking peoples including the Chipewyan, on the northwest by the Slavey, and on the west by the Beaver. To the south were Algonkian speakers, including Blackfeet...
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Sir Alexander Mackenzie
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Given (1788) supervision of the important Athabasca fur district, Mackenzie set out (1789) from his headquarters at Fort Chipewyan on Lake Athabasca on the first of his two noted trips of exploration. After reaching Great Slave Lake, he followed the then...
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