Social Life & Customs

Looks at different literary approaches to understanding Indian words.

Drama Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 1979.

Book review of: E. W. Nelson's Notes on the Indians of the Yukon and Innoko Rivers, Alaska edited and with an introduction by James W. VanStone.

Book review of: Eagle Down Is Our Law by Antonia Mills.

Discusses risk factors, screening and assessment.

Explains different wampum diplomacy, use as personal ornamentation and in ceremonial objects.

Article explores Eastern Cherokee epistemology; by examining sacred traditional-narratives the authors reveal the cultural meanings, purposes and values that are embodied in different characters and deities within those stories.

Argues that the "optimum period" for the Cree of James Bay was when limited contact kept their way of life intact and that this period ended in 1914 when the area become less isolated because of the railway and other economic interests.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 33, (pp139-232).

Argues that powwows provide the opportunity to display a rich legacy of signifying materials, that can be modified for the changing political winds in Canada.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Calgary, 1999.

Describes New France in the 18th Century, including Pierre-Philippe Potier correspondence, library catalogues and registers of births.

Consists of an interview where she gives an account of plants and herbs used as medicine; and gives a description of basket making procedures.

Consists of an interview where she discusses Medicine Men and their purported powers. She briefly mentions Indian superstitions (being born with a caul on her face; being the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter).

Introduction to journal issue featuring articles on the external social pressures which affect traditional gender structures and Indigenous women. To access this article, scroll down to page 4.

Introduction to journal issue which focuses on Indigenous nomadic pastoralists and the issues and myths they encounter. To access this article, scroll to page 4.

Editorial introduction to themed issue: " Death and Dying: Healing and Supporting Journeys."

Introduction to journal issue featuring articles on land use by Indigenous people called swidden agriculture or shifting cultivation. To access this article, scroll down to page 4.

Discusses the right of San communities to access formal education in Nambia, Botswana and South Africa. To access this article, scroll down to page 27.

Discusses reasons for changes in living arrangements of the Sámi elderly.

Author examines 13 treaties made between 1736 and 1762 and collected for publication by Benjamin Franklin; argues that the texts of the treaties demonstrate not only the influence of the Iroquois signatories, but also their worldview and spiritual practice, and function as a form of ritual or ceremony.

Includes Remarks on Linguistic Ethnology: Introductory to the Report of Dr. A.F. Chamberlain on the Kootenay [Kootenai] Indians of South-Eastern British Columbia by Horatio Hale.

Discusses how the "Day of the Dead" celebration integrates many Mayan practices with Catholic rituals.

Senator Bill Standingready of the White Bear First Nation compares past and current powwows.

Elders recall what life was like when they were raising their children. Interviewer : Ed Fox ; interpreter : Eli Bear.

Elders tell stories either from their own experience or which have been passed down to them.

Relates Elder Maria Linklater’s teaching on parenting based on traditional knowledge gained through her life’s experiences.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.22.

Side A of this tape has not been translated into English. Side B is a conference about Ojibway legends of creation, flood and migration and how these compare to the legends of other peoples. Also talks about the origins of the clans and Midewiwin lodge.

Article explores the ways that Salisbury’s poetry is influenced by and tied to the life that he led.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 13, (259-328).

Report includes the following papers: Report of the Director by J. W. Powell The Sia by Matilda Coxe Stevenson Ethnology of the Ungava District, Hudson Bay Territory by Lucien M. Turner A Study of Siouan Cults by James Owen Dorsey

Interview includes stories about the origin of the Sioux Dance and tales about the Sliding and Drumming hills.

Assesses the work of Europeans Mircea Eliade and Ake Hultkrantz in the field of comparative religion, with emphasis on their work on Native Americans.

Consists of an interview where she tells of a frightening trip through the woods as a child.

Consists of an interview where she gives a brief account of Indian medicine; she mentions accounts she has heard of the War of 1812; and mentions certain superstitions.

Consists of an interview where she gives an account of Longhouse ceremonies and beliefs. She also gives an account of Longhouse funeral practices.

Examines a case study of ritual healing among the Tarahumara, or Rarámuri, in northern Mexico.

Book review of: Embracing Fry Bread by Roger Welsch.

Using Hopi creation myths to examine how tribal mythology dictates how Indigenous communities are organized, develop their religions, and met challenges for their own survival.

Article examines the interaction between Moravian missionaries and Lenape people; describes similarities and differences in spiritual beliefs and practices.

Study uses oral interviews to engage Métis understandings of Marian apparitions and shrines in and surrounding Sakitawak (Île-à-la-Crosse); authors work to discuss Métis spirituality in a way that makes sense to community members and that also challenges outsiders presumptions about the relationship between the Métis and Mary. Entire Issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 29.

Discusses effects the creation of Lake Hannington Games Reserve has had on traditional culture and religious lifestyle of the Endorois people living by Lake Bogoria. To access this article, scroll down to page 47.

Examines traditional Native Americans' perspectives toward teaching and learning.

Book review of: Epic Fiction: The Art of Rudy Wiebe by W. J. Keith.

Discusses how Western influences can destroy rituals, like that of love medicine.

Book review: Eskimo Boy Today by Byron Fish.

Presents observation of coastal an Alaskan village over an eight month period from 1973 to 1974 in Tununak, on Nelson Island.

Describes how the Copper Eskimos from Coronation Gulf executed their drum dancing.