Word: haidas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They then consider the development of primitive cultures, not only in the general terms of the technology and social organization of paleolithic and neolithic cultures, but also by examining a few specific societies, like the Aranda of Australia, the Hopi, the Kazakhs of Central Asia, the Haida Indians off the West Coast of Canada, the Ganda of Uganda and finally the Inca. They consider in a fairly sophisticated manner just what makes a civilization, and how the primitive forms developed...
Many moons ago, when a tribe of Haida Indians was searching for a new camp site, a famed chief named Jumping Brook led the way to Kitimat, a coastal flatland in the rugged northwest portion of what is now British Columbia. Two aspects of the Kitimat site appealed to Chief Jumping Brook. It was near the sea (the Haidas built ocean-going canoes), and there was plenty of fresh water in the chain of lakes and rivers a short distance inland...