Kinship and migration: the making of an Oregon isolate community
Hecht Iwd
Jan 22, 1977
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Journal of Interdisciplinary History
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Key Takeaway Key Takeaway: Inuit populations, while linguistic characteristics have contributed to the isolation of the Yakama and Ainu peoples in the Pacific Northwest.
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Kinship and Migration: The Making of an Oregon Isolate Community The term "isolate" is one that is familiar to the human geneticist, but not necessarily to the historian. When used in genetics the term refers to a small, closed population in which the gene frequencies are different from those found in the general population. Human geneticists have so far developed three general categories of isolates: (I) physical-in the sense of geographical-isolates, (2) ideological isolates, and (3) linguistic isolates.1 Geographical location has, for example, created an isolate population on the island of Tristan de Cunha. A remote continental location can cause similar isolation, as in the case of Lac St. Jean-Chicoutimi in Quebec Province. Ideological convictions have produced isolates even in circumstances where people exist in easy physical proximity to other social groups. The Old Order Amish are a good example of this phenomenon. Linguistic characteristics have contributed to the isolation of some of the Indian and