Athabascan People: Intertextual Analysis

During this week of class we looked at the Athabascan people primarily on the aspect of contact with the European world. Focusing on how the Athabascan people were impacted from contacted and what happened throughout the contact. The impact came through trade, the clashing of cultures, and the epidemics that were caused from the new world experiencing old world diseases. Starting with the impact of trade on the Athabascan people had many ramifications. With guns now being widespread among the Native Alaskan people hunting, which used to require multiple people from the village, became individualized. This seems like a good thing to occur because that would give villages more ways to gather food for the village ensuring a better chance for