Rachel Fritts reports that, in the American Northwest, bear tribes and human tribes coexist. As in: where the locals spoke language A, those were the bears they lived with. Those humans didn't move much into the lands with language B; neither did "their" bears.
To me it all seems so Ainu. I am unaware of bear-cub adoption among the Na-Dene...
... but who needs that, when bears and humans adopt one another. The Wuikinuxv and its bears have lived amongst each other for thousands of years, and they don't mess with one another. If a Wuikinuxv brave (more likely: outcast) wanders outside his territory, he might be attacked by some other tribe - or that tribe's bears might get him first.
I wonder if this same dynamic had applied, earlier, to humans and wolf-packs. The (human) Tribe Of The Red Pelted Wolf stuck with the Red Pelt Pack (who couldn't even see red, but could maybe smell it). Wolves are smaller than bears.
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