BC Studies, no. 184, Winter, 2014/2015, pp. 144-146
Description
Book review of Chinookan Peoples of the Lower Columbia edited by Robert T. Boyd, Kenneth M. Ames, and Tony A. Johnson.
Entire book review section on one PDF. To access this review scroll to p. 144.
University of Saskatchewan Library Dean's Research Lecture
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Cheryl A. Metoyer
Description
Speaker discusses Indigenous ways of knowing and worldviews, and how they informed the subject headings developed during the Mashantucket Pequot Thesaurus Project.
Duration: 35:40.
University of Saskatchewan Library Dean's Research Lecture, 2012.
Consists of an interview about mourning rites, including death customs, self multilation as a sign of mourning; punishments for adultery and what happens to pipes and bundles when their owners die; and the loss of old mourning rituals and customs.
Consists of an interview about various aspects of the Pigeon Society; the role of various members; women in the society; competing for wives; the Crow Carriers Society; the Brave Society including a story of a fight against the Cree when the enemy was scared away by the dancing of the Braves; and the Scaping dance.