American Subarctic peoples

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Introduction
Traditional culture patterns
- Ethos
- Territorial organization
- Settlement and housing
- Production and technology
- Property and social stratification
- Family and kinship relations
- Socialization of children
- Religious beliefs
Cultural continuity and change

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Distribution of American Subarctic cultures

Taiga (boreal forest), with white spruce, birch, and low shrubs, near the Fortymile River, a tributary of the Yukon River, east-central Alaska, U.S.

Driver and dog team crossing the Great Slave Lake, N.W.T., Can.

Yellowknife, the capital of the Northwest Territories (Can.), was founded in 1935 on the north shore of the Great Slave Lake.

traditional semisubterranean dwelling of North American Arctic and subarctic peoples

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Distribution of American Subarctic cultures

Taiga (boreal forest), with white spruce, birch, and low shrubs, near the Fortymile River, a tributary of the Yukon River, east-central Alaska, U.S.

Driver and dog team crossing the Great Slave Lake, N.W.T., Can.

Yellowknife, the capital of the Northwest Territories (Can.), was founded in 1935 on the north shore of the Great Slave Lake.

traditional semisubterranean dwelling of North American Arctic and subarctic peoples

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