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In a class of narratives within the body of their oral traditions, the Dogrib Indians of subarctic Canada evince a sharp sense of the temporal succession and significance of historical happenings and circumstances over the last two hundred years. A search of the archival records of the 1820s reveals that one of the most cherished Dogrib legends, seemingly apocryphal, does in fact embody historical realities in the persons and event that it features.
Helm et al. (Wed,) studied this question.