Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter 1
2. Table of Contents 3
3. Preface 5
4. Introduction: Canadian Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Ecology 9
5. The great lakesst- St.Lawrence region
6. Economic and Ecological Aspects of Iroquois Culture 18
7. Subsistence of The Huron Indians 24
8. Settlement as an Aspect of Iroquoian Adaptation at the Time of Contact 33
9. The Boreal Forest
10. The Family Hunting Band as the basis of Algonkian Social Organization 56
11. Land Ownership and Chieftaincy among The Chippewayan and Caribou-Eaters 74
12. The Montagnais—Naskapi Band 79
13. The Significance of Hunting Territories Today 99
14. The Ethno-Ecology of the Waswanipi Cree; or How Hunters Can Manage Their Resources 113
15. The Cree of Canada; Some Ecological and Evolutionary Considerations 124
16. Variation and Continuity in Kutchin Society 138
17. The Squatter on the Resource Frontier 150
18. Rock, Wood, Water 157
19. The Grasslands
20. Comments on Plains Indian Cultural Development 169
21. The Algonquian Plains? 172
22. The Pacific region
23. Development of the Pacific Northwest Plateau Cultural Area: Historical and Environmental Considerations 192
24. Determinism in Primitive Society? 203
25. The Fish and Their Environment 211
26. Models of Southern Kwakiutl Social Organization 225
27. Chiefs and Commoners: Nature’s Balance and the Good Life Among the Nootka 252
28. The arctic and the barren grounds
29. Environment, History, and Central Eskimo Society 267
30. Animals As Capital: Comparisons Among Northern Nomadic Herders and Hunters 299
31. The Chipewyan Hunting Group in a Village Context 313
32. Suggestions For Further Reading 321
33. Note on the Editor 327
34. List of Contributors 328