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The Kaska are native to the Canadian regions of northwestern British Columbia, southern Yukon, and southwestern Northwest Territories. This entry focuses primarily on the Upper Liard Kaska (located northwest of Lower Post, British Columbia) around the time of 1900, predominantly using reconstructive...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Emily Pitek
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: Zenodo 2024
Subjects:
Religious Group
Native American North American Religions
Circumpolar Religions
Yukon
Northwest Territories
Hudson Bay
Hudson
Liard
Lower Post
Upper Liard
Dease River
McDame
McDame Creek
Liard River
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12572438
https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.12572438
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Summary:The Kaska are native to the Canadian regions of northwestern British Columbia, southern Yukon, and southwestern Northwest Territories. This entry focuses primarily on the Upper Liard Kaska (located northwest of Lower Post, British Columbia) around the time of 1900, predominantly using reconstructive ethnographic information collected by principal authority anthropologist John Honigmann during field expeditions in the 1940s. For the Kaska, continuous contact with Europeans began in the 1820s at the Hudson Bay Company post Fort Halkett, on Liard River. During this time, Protestant and Catholic missionaries visited the area, but did not start continuous work until the establishment of the mission at McDame Creek on the Dease River in 1926. Consequently, this entry focuses on Kaska beliefs and practices as they existed prior to major changes as a result of contact with foreigners. Traditional Kaska beliefs recognized a variety of supernatural beings, including spirits, souls of the departed, and monsters. ...

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