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The Native Races of British North America

Chapter 2: PREFACE
By Wilfrid D. Hambly
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A descriptive survey of the indigenous peoples of British North America that combines physical anthropology, geography, and ethnography. It outlines regional environments and how they shape subsistence and material culture, contrasts Arctic Eskimo lifeways with more temperate coastal and interior Indian tribes, and profiles food-gathering, hunting techniques, housing, crafts such as basketry and carving, and social organization. Chapters examine daily occupations, family and communal rituals, oral narratives among Arctic groups, and adaptations to climate and resources, offering observational comparisons across tribes while emphasizing diversity of customs and technology.

Printed in Great Britain by
Morrison & Gibb Ltd., Edinburgh

PREFACE

During recent years there has been a very happy tendency to change the nature of geographical teaching from a monotonous memorising of the names of natural features to a subject of living interest.

In the endeavour to effect this change there has been a serious omission in our failure to appeal to natural interests of children by making the human element a central feature of geographical work.

A study of the picturesque lives of native races of the British Empire is an absolute essential if the teacher wishes to impart the appropriate colour and setting to a subsequent course of economic, regional, and political geography.

The sharp contrast between European beliefs and customs and those of primitive people is in itself an incentive to study and interest. In addition to this, a sympathetic understanding of the many native races who are controlled by English statesmanship is necessary for the material and moral progress of dominions in the British Empire.

W. D. HAMBLY.