James Teit’s The Kaska Indians: An Ethnographic Reconstruction provides a baseline anthropological and geographic study of the Dene-speaking Kaska communities inhabiting the upper Liard and Dease river drainages of the Stikine region. Teit documents traditional social structure, material technology, seasonal hunting territories, and overland trail corridors spanning Lower Post, McDame, Dease Lake, Good Hope Lake, Hyland Ranch, and Hyland Post. The volume records oral histories, language vocabularies, and spiritual traditions, analyzing the severe disruptions brought by nineteenth-century fur posts, placer gold migrations, and expanding trade routes across the Cassiar plateau.

Athapascan Indians, British Columbia Stikine Region, Dease Lake (B.C.), Ethnology British Columbia Stikine Region, First Nations British Columbia History, Good Hope Lake (B.C.), History, Hyland Post (B.C.), Hyland Ranch (B.C.), Indians of North America British Columbia, Kaska Indians, Lower Post (B.C.), McDame (B.C.), Stikine Region (B.C.)

Yale University Publications in Anthropology, No. 51. Edited by Cornelius Osgood. Includes bibliographical references.

Yale University Publications in Anthropology, No. 51. Edited by Cornelius Osgood. Includes bibliographical references.