This text provides a variety of ethnographic details on Athapaskan Indigenous groups in northwestern Canada and Alaska (primarily focused on classification, naming, and subdivisions), as well as some geographic description of the regions in which they live. It is included in a larger volume about population change, diversity, practices, and economy across North American Indigenous peoples.

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In the year 1928, I was commissioned as ethnologist by the National Museum of Canada to conduct a study of the Indians of the Great Bear Lake region in the Northwest Territories. I had conceived the project as the first in a series of studies of the Athapaskan-speaking peoples of the interior of northwest Canada and Alaska. On July 1, 1928, I reached Fort Norman (91 — numbers refer to the maps Figures 1 and 2) on the Mackenzie River, and the Fishery (4) at Great Bear Lake on July 23.

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Osgood, Cornelius. “An ethnographical map of Great Bear Lake.” In Proceedings: Northern Athapaskan Conference, 1971 volume 2, edited by Annette McFadyen Clark, 516-544. Ottawa: National Museum of Man Mercury Series, Ethnology Service Paper 27, 1975.