Place Names

Lists books, theses, journal articles, and government publications with alphabetical index by groups and languages and geographical locations. 3rd edition. Text in English and French.

Sample of some the many geographic names with Aboriginal origins.

Compares concentration of place names on King Island to those reported for other communities and poses factors that may have contributed to this difference.

Author traces the history and development of “North American Indian Place Names Studies” as a discipline in the field of anthropology; analyzes a successful model of cooperative research on Tlingit place names.

Online community based atlas project. Contains audio map of 300 traditional place names in Inuktitut, interactive quest map, traditional maps and artist biographies with their artwork.

Book review of: Athabaskan Language Studies edited by Eloise Jelinek, Sally Midgette, Karen Rice, Leslie Saxon.

Book review of 14 books: Drum Songs: Glimpses of Dene History by Kerry Abel. Names, Numbers, and Northern Policy by Valerie Alia. Sacred Stories of the Sweet Grass Cree by Leonard Bloomfield. Guide to Oral History Collections in Canada/Guide des fonds d'histoire orale au Canada by Normand Fortier. The Mohicans of Stockbridge by Patrick Frazier. 500 Jahre danach: Zur heutigen Lage der indigenen Volker beider Amerika (500 Years Thereafter: The Present Day Situation of the Indigenous Peoples of Both Americas) edited by Peter R.

Explores and analyzes the political consequences and power in naming or labeling, as well as discussing how problems may end up disregarding reality.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Victoria, 2017.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 12, (pp31-69).

Explores the Inuit society located around Baker Lake, Nunavut and how geography influenced caribou migration and consequently patterns of settlement.

Argues that maps illustrate power relationships, as when colonizers' place names and territorial boundaries attempted to erase the prior occupancy and ownership of lands by First Nations.

Looks back at a 2003 study on Dakelh place names and experiences faced while negotiating Indigenous, place-based cultural research.

Geography Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Ottawa, 1998.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 31, (pp67-210).

Book review of Exploration History and Place Names of Northern East Greenland by Anthony K. Higgins.

Study of the origin and meaning of names of bodies of water and some land forms, and changes to them which occurred in Curve Lake First Nation and municipalities of North Kawartha, and Cavendish, Galway-Harvey.

Geography Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 2002.

Author uses traditional stories of Yamozha to talk about the relationship that the Tłįchǫ (Tlicho) have historically had and are rebuilding with the land; draws on teachings of Elders to discuss the importance of language, sacred place names, and people “living in spirit with the environment, with the animals.” Video of conference presentation: Trails of our Ancestors Duration: 47:22

Geography Thesis (Ph.D.)--Queen's University, 1992.

Lists official geographic place names with official spellings and location.

Looks at old Aboriginal names, their meanings and the folklore associated with names from Puget Sound to northern California.

Examines the contentious role of oral histories in ethnohistorical reconstruction and discusses how six elderly individuals living in the Yukon used named locations in space to talk about past events.

Provisional edition.

Book review of Haa Leelk’w Has Aani Saax’u edited by Thomas F. Thornton.

Examines the role and actions of Raven in Yup’ik creation narratives and traditional stories; and how those stories are recorded in the place names and understandings of the land.

Vol. 1

Translation of nine place names.

Explains that many place names and common English words, like skunk, raccoon, moose originated in North American Indigenous languages.

Outlines initiatives undertaken by the Geographical Names Board of Canada.

Compares Nuu-chah-nulth oral histories and the place names within them to archaeological timing of settlements.

Looks at the importance of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) in education using Dakelh place-names as examples.

Introductory article on themed issued devoted to; Spaces-Places-Names.

Geography Thesis (M.A.)--McGill University, 2000.

Geography Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia, 1990.

Interactive website provides Inuit knowledge of arctic sea ice around Baffin Island, Nunavut. Intended as a resource for northern schools, youth and scientists.

Book review of: Islands of Truth by Daniel W. Clayton.

National Resources Management Thesis (M.N.R.M.)--The University of Manitoba, 2002.

"The notion of imaginaries and the rethinking of place are illustrated with Inuit archaeological and ethnographic examples."

Article describes a web-based participatory mapping tool(https://trt.geolive.ca/) which combines ideologies of stewardship with place names and stories.

Discusses prairie place names in that originate with the fur trade and its participants. Entire Issue of Saskatchewan History on one pdf file, scroll to page 21.

Legend concerning the place name of an area outside of Winnipeg.

Describes the process of creating the map Coming Home to Indigenous Place Names in Canada.