aboriginal wintering base-camp (Other Keyword)
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Living Within and Without the Borders of Others: An Historic Period First Nations Hunting/Trapping Site in Northern Alberta (2015)
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Although the Cold Lake First Nation signed Treaty Six in 1876, granting them a small treatied territory of some 19,000 hectares, many families continued their winter forays in search of game and furs into traditional territories well off the Reserve for many decades. Recent archaeological research, ahead of a proposed pipeline development, has focussed on one such wintering site, located within what is now the Cold Lake Air Weapons Range. Evidence of family groups reusing this base camp has been...