| Description |
207 pages ; 23 cm |
| Note |
"Initial versions of these papers were presented in the symposium, 'Ethnohistorical perspectives on Keepers of the game, ' at the twenty-seventh annual meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory, Albany, N.Y., October 11-14, 1979"--Introd., notes, p. 9. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index. |
| Contents |
The war between Indians and animals / Calvin Martin -- Ontario native people and the epidemics of 1634-1640 / Bruce G. Trigger -- Northeastern Indian concepts of conservation and the fur trade: a critique of Calvin Martin's thesis / Charles A. Bishop -- Keepers of the game and the nature of explanation / Dean R. Snow -- "Throwing bad medicine": sorcery, disease, and the fur trade among the Kutchin and other Northern Athapaskans / Shepard Krech III -- The nature of evil: of whales and sea otters / Lydia T. Black -- Why the Southeastern Indians slaughtered deer / Charles M. Hudson, Jr. -- Animals and disease in Indian belief / William C. Sturtevant -- Comment / Calvin Martin. |
| Subject |
Martin, Calvin. Keepers of the game.
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Ojibwa Indians -- Hunting.
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Fur trade -- Canada.
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Indians of North America -- Canada -- Religion.
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| Local Subject |
Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Religion.
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Micmac Indians -- Hunting.
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| Local Subject |
Indigenous peoples -- Hunting -- Canada.
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| Subject |
Indians of North America -- Hunting -- Canada.
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| Added Author |
Krech, Shepard, III, 1944-
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| ISBN |
0820305634 |
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