During this study, Aberle contributed his cultural knowledge of Athapaskan communities and linguist Isidore contributed her linguistic skills to reconstruct historical kinship patterns of these communities.
12.
Eel River Athapaskan oral literature belongs primarily to the pattern of narratives that prevailed among the Pomo to the south and among the groups of central California in general.
13.
The authoritative study of Alaskan Athabaskan fiddle music is " The Crooked Stovepipe : Athapaskan Fiddle Music and Square Dancing in Northeast Alaska and Northwest Canada ",
14.
To illustrate important elements of the stories from her research, she would bring in tools, clothes, and weapons from both the Tlingit and Athapaskan peoples for her students.
15.
The Taltheilei people are considered proto-Athapaskan, and are ancestors to two Dene people, the Yellowknives and the Chipewyan and possibly the Dene Algonkian people of the Boreal Forest.
16.
Another 28, 000 speak Inuktitut, the language of the far-north Inuit people, and 20, 000 speak Athapaskan, the language of the Dene Indians of northwestern Canada.
17.
Like other coastal peoples, the Tsimshian fashioned most of their goods out of Tlingit, Haida, the Athapaskan groups in the north and east, and the Wakashan groups in the south.
18.
Its occupants are believed by archaeologists to have been ancestors of the Athapaskan people resident in the area now, who had originally used their familiar style of housing when they first migrated into the region.
19.
The Chilkat had been acting as middlemen between the Company and the Athapaskan people of the interior ( along pre-existing trade routes ), and were unwilling to be cut out of the arrangement.
20.
The similar name " Atnah " occurs in the journals of Simon Fraser and other early European diarists in what is now British Columbia as a reference to the Tsilhqot'in people, another Northern Athapaskan group.
