The Book of Dene - 1976.
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| Database ID | 27093 | |
| Institution | University of Saskatchewan Libraries Special Collections | |
| Fonds/Collection | Morton Manuscripts Collection | |
| Series | MSS-51 | |
| File/Item Reference | MSS-51-1-1 (Box 1) | |
| Date of creation | 1976 | |
| Physical description/extent | 1 report; 2 mm of textual records | |
| Number of images | 84 | |
| Historical note | Emile Fortune Stanislas Joseph Petitot (1838 - 1916) was born in southern France near Marseilles. At the age of twenty-four he was ordained to the priesthood and joined the order of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate which sent him to North America in 1862. He spent the next 13 years in the Mackenzie Valley as a missionary and explorer. During his travels in northern Canada, he collected information and material for his dictionary of the major Athapaskan Indian languages (published in Paris in 1887) and for his other works on the character and customs of the Inuit and the Hareskin, Dogrib, Slave, Chippewyans, Loucheux, Cree and Hare Indians. | |
| Scope and content | The book contains the histories, traditions and beliefs of Chipewyan, Dogrib, Slavey, and Loucheux peoples. The Dene told these histories and beliefs to Emile Petitot who wrote the words down in the Dene Language. The stories were compiled by Petitot between 1862 and 1875. | |
| Contributer | Petitot, Emile (author) | |
| Copyright holder | Public domain | |
| Copyright expiry date | Public domain | |
| Other terms governing use and reproduction | Responsibility regarding questions of copyright that may arise in the use of any images is assumed by the researcher. | |
| Type | Archival | |
| Primary Media | Textual documents | |
| Specific document types | Reports | |
| Provenance Access Point | Morton, A.S. | |
| Other notes | Translated from French. This collection was presented to the Institute for Northern Studies by Donatien Savoie, on behalf of the Honourable John Munro, Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs, 17 October 1980. The material was deposited in Special Collections, University of Saskatchewan Library, on the dissolution of the Institute in 1982. | |
| Treaty boundaries | No treaty | |
| Cultural region | Arctic Subarctic | |
| Names | Petitot, Ãmile Fortuné Stanislas Joseph, 1838-1917 | |
| Subject | Children Culture -- Folklore Culture -- Literature/ Storytelling North Oral history Women Inuit Dogrib Blackfoot Confederacy - Siksika (Blackfoot proper) Dene - Chipewyan Gwich'in | |
| Date Range(s) | 1860-1869 1870-1879 | |
| Permanent Link | https://digital.scaa.sk.ca/ourlegacy/permalink/27093
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