The trappers of Patuanak : toward a spatial ecology of modern hunters

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Book

Authors

Robert Jarvenpa ( Jarvenpa, Robert )

Tags

Patuanak (Sask.) -- Economic conditions, Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan -- Patuanak, Dene, Dene -- Hunting, Indigenous peoples -- Hunting -- Saskatchewan, Patuanak (Sask.), English River First Nation

Abstract

This study develops an analytical framework that treats special arrangements of human populations as a fundamental form of ecological adaptation for subarctic aboriginal societies. The geographical mobility of commercial fur trappers and fishermen from the English River Chipewyan community of Patuanak, Saskatchewan is employed as a variable for explaining the organization of economic subsistence cycles and ongoing processes of settlement system change.

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