People, places and paths: The Cypress Hills and the Niitsitapi landscape of southern Alberta

Plains Anthropologist

Volumn 51, Issue 199, 2006, Pages 375-397

  Oetelaar, Gerald A ^a   Oetelaar, D Joy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Ethnohistory; Landscapes archaeology; Niitsitapi geography; Oral history; Place names

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846673415     PISSN: 00320447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/pan.2006.031     Document Type: Article

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