This book is a study of Dene people, which attempts to integrate traditional oral history with information from many other areas of anthropology. Through this is an extremely challenging task, if offers the possibilities of obtaining a comprehensive understanding of north-eastern Alberta's Aboriginal history. Forty interviews with Athabascan Elders of Cree and Dene ancestry were conducted, with twenty interviews transcribed and subsequently submitted to Alberta Archives. It has been estimated that only 3 % of Elders have retained significant traditional knowledge. Therefore, the recording of this valuable knowledge is vital to retaining cultural continuity. This ethnographic task has been greatly assisted by the interviewers and interpreter's Dene origins and integral knowledge of their culture.