The Death of Barbue, a Kutchin Trading Chief
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic2347Keywords:
Burial practices, Gwich'in Indians, Health care, History, Inuit-Indian relations, Fort Good Hope region, N.W.T.Abstract
A richly detailed account of the demise and death of a Kutchin leader in the early 19th century, preserved in Hudson's Bay Company journals, is presented and analyzed for what it reveals of Northern Athapaskan adaptations in the early fur trade era.
Key words: Kutchin, Northern Athapaskan, fur trade, Hudson's Bay Company, ethnohistory
