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THE IMPACT OF LANDSCAPE AND CLIMATE ON THE DENESULINE RELIGION daily life of the Denesuline. Furthermore, within their belief system, they also incorporate natural phenomena by seeking to align themselves with these forces, aiming to harness their power and attributes such as speed, like we saw it on the shield painting. This implies a form of spiritual or cultural connection with nature, where individuals seek to emulate the characteristics of natural elements to enhance their own abilities or influence their surroundings. Hearne’s work gives us an insight into this through a bloody example. I have shown that the environment deeply influenced the Denesuline nation in many ways, from mythology to their everyday life. In addition to offering an insight into Denesuine customs and religious beliefs, it has been also pointed out how these customs and beliefs have been affected by the climate, from Denesuline burials to their taboo system, to hunting habits. Hearne’s description also suggests that even women’s reproductive ability was influenced by the harsh climate. WORKS CITED Abel, Kerry. Drum Songs. Glimpses of Dene History. McGill-Queen’s UP, 1993. Bastian, Dawn E. and Mitchell, Judy K. The Handbook of Native American Mythology. ABCCLIO, 2004. Cook, Eung-Do. A grammar of Déne Sytiné (Denesuline). Educa Books/ Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics, 2004. Davis-Floyd, Robbie and Cheyney, Melissa. “Birth and the Big Bad Wolf: An Evolutionary Perspective” edited by Helaine Selin. Childbirth Across Culture: Ideas and Practices of Pregnancy, Childbirth and the Postpartum. Springer Verlag, 2009. Douglas, Mary. Implicit Meanings. Selected Essays on Anthropology. Routledge, 1999. Frazer, James C. Az aranydg. Translated by Bodrogi Tibor. Osiris Kiadö, 2019. Friderers, James S. First Nations in the Twenty-First Century. Oxford UP, 2011. Hearne, Samuel. A Journey to the Northern Ocean. Foreword by Ken McGoogan. Touchwood Edition, 2007. Homans, George C. “Anxiety and Ritual: The Theories of Malinowski and Radcliffe-Brown.” American Anthropologist, vol. 43, no. 2, 1941, pp. 164-72. Sharp, S. Harp. Loon: Memory, Meaning and Reality in a Northern Dene Community. University of Nebraska Press, 2001. Smith, David Chan. “The Hudson’s Bay Company, Social Legitimacy, and the Political Economy of Eighteenth-Century Empire.” The William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 75, no. 1, 2018, pp. 71-108. Smith, James G. E. “Economic Uncertainty in an ‘Original Affluent Society: Caribou and Caribou Eater Chipeway Adaptive Strategies.” Arctic Anthropology, vol. 15, no. 1, 1978, pp. 68-88. ———. “Denesuline, Cree and Inuit Relations West of Hudson Bay, 1714-1955.” Ethnohistory, vol. 28, no. 2, 1981, pp. 133-156. + 113 ¢
