Naskapi: The Savage Hunters of the Labrador Peninsula (Volume 10)

by Frank Gouldsmith Speck

Convinced that native culture survived in its purest form in the northern portions of North America, Frank Speck devoted almost twenty years of research to the Naskapi of Canada’s Labrador Peninsula during the first quarter of the twentieth century. He determined the Naskapi’s lifestyles were primitive compared to those of other natives, but their spiritual culture was highly developed. The Naskapi stressed the importance of dreams and dream interpretations, of communing with the spirit world, and of rituals honoring animal spirits.

Genres: Indigenous

272 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1935

About the author

Frank Gouldsmith Speck was an American anthropologist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He was specialized in the Algonquian and Iroquoian peoples of the United States and First Nations peoples of eastern boreal Canada.

He was the elder brother of Reinhard S. Speck.

Reviews

[Clivemichael]

Fascinating. Objective perspectives have changed.

[Nicole · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the best original ethnographies done by an archaeologist