The Gwich’in historical relations with external powers and their meaning of “tradition”

Toshiaki Inoue

International Symposium “Prehistory, Language and Culture of Indigenous Societies in the North Pacific”

National Museum of Ethnology Inter-University Research Project "Interdisciplinary Comparison of Historical Change, Current of State, and Future of Indigenous Societies along the North Pacific Rim: From a Perspective of Human History"

National Museum of Ethnology, JAPAN

https://www.minpaku.ac.jp/ai1ec_event/47998

 In this presentation, I will show the Gwich’in historical relations with variety of external powers and their political/social reactions to these entities. I will also consider the meaning of “tradition” for the Gwich’in as an indigenous people in the modern era.