Whilst there are various ethnic minorities distributed within European countries, few of these still maintain traditional subsistence cultures and are recognized as indigenous peoples, per se.

Debris at the site indicates a subsistence culture surviving on small mammals, fish, berries, and acorns.

As a number of participants at the conference demonstrated, the presence or absence of a grandmother often spelled the difference in traditional subsistence cultures between life or death for the grandchildren.

In many ways, the debate over Alaska's subsistence culture starkly echoes those elsewhere over affirmative action, creating similar racial tensions.

Keff could not have designed a world more likely to be dependent upon subsistence culture.

This was a subsistence culture that arrived after the glaciers retreated somewhere around 15,000 years ago and the rise of glacial Lake Algonquian, 4-8,000 years ago.

Elder is a role played in the organised community that is most common in subsistence cultures, Elderhood being the condition or quality of being an elder.

In Canada, northern Aboriginals had a subsistence culture based on local hunting and trapping economies.

But this cold-adapted subsistence culture was in a period of unsettling transition.

"These subsistence cultures end up preoccupied with common sense," Yorick said.