Wolverine Myths and Visions
Dene Traditions from Northern Alberta
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4038484 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Henry S Sharp, Patrick Moore (0000-0002-5205-8832), Angela Wheelock, The Dene Wodih Society, The Dene Wodih Society The Dene Wodih Society |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 295 |
| Publication date | 1992-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The American Indian Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0095-182X • E-ISSN: 1534-1828 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1185457 |
| OpenAlex | W2043584450 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
The people who call themselves Den Dhaa, a group of the Athapaskan-speaking natives of northwestern Canada known as the Slave or Slavey Indians, now number about one thousand and occupy three reserves in northwestern Alberta. Because their settlements were until recently widely dispersed and isolated, they have maintained their language and traditions more successfully than most other Indian groups. This collection of their stories, recorded in the Dene language with literal interlinear English glosses and in a free English translation, represents a major contribution to the documentation of the Dene language, ethnography, and folklore. The stories center on two animal people, Wolf, who often helps people in Dene myth and whom traditional members of the tribe still so respect that they do not trap wolves for fur; and Wolverine, a trickster and cultural transformer much like Coyote in the Navajo tradition or Raven in Northwest Coast traditions. Wolverine is also the name of the leader of the messianic Tea Dance that took hold among the Dene people early in the twentieth century. His visions and the accounts of his life, which are included here along with the traditional tales, show how the old myths have been transfigured but continue to pervade the Dene world-view
Archaeology · Ethnology · Geography · Mythology · Sociology · Vision · Anthropology · Canadian Identity and History · Classics · History · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
The Extension of Dependency Beyond the Sentence
Narrative Desire and Textual Consummation in Haida, Tlingit, and Northern-Dene Textualized Orature
The soundscape as the transformatrice in some Dene songs and stories
How children in northern Canada represent the wolverine through drawings
Trail of Story, Traveller’s Path
Climbing the Trail to Heaven
The Moose Trappers and Hunting Grounds of Vilhelmina
Ways of Knowing
Third-Person Plural Subject Prefix in Northern Athapaskan
The Legitimation of Beliefs in a Hunter-Gatherer Society
Gold in; Gold out
Claiming Legitimacy
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,35 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2024 (33) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |