Subarctic cultural area

Japanese: 亜極北文化領域 - あきょくほくぶんかりょういき
Subarctic cultural area

...It has been thought that their livelihood was based on hunting seals at sea in the winter and caribou inland in the spring and fall, but it has recently been discovered that there are considerable regional differences.
[Subarctic culture area]
This area roughly corresponds to the boreal forest (taiga) and extends from the middle and upper reaches of the Yukon and Kuskokim rivers in the interior of Alaska to Labrador in northeastern Canada. The indigenous people who live in the taiga are Indians who speak Athabascan (Na-Dene) languages, such as the Tanaina, Hare, and Chipewyan, and Indians who speak Algonquian languages, such as the Cree and Naskapi.

*Some of the terminology used to refer to the "Subarctic Cultural Region" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…彼らの生業の基盤は冬の海におけるアザラシ猟と春・秋の内陸におけるカリブーの狩猟にあると考えられてきたが,最近では地域によりかなりの差異があることが判明している。
[亜極北文化領域]
 この領域は北方針葉樹林(タイガ)とほぼ一致し,アラスカ内陸のユーコン川,クスコキウム川の中・上流域からカナダ北東部のラブラドルまで広がる。タイガに居住する原住民はタナイナ族,ヘア族,チペワイアン族などのアサバスカ(ナ・デネ)系言語を話すインディアンと,クリー族,ナスカピ族などアルゴンキン系言語を話すインディアンである。…

※「亜極北文化領域」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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