First Nations & Reserves

Curriculum and Instruction Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Victoria, 2014.

Descriptive study traces the changes of both collective and private land control on a British Columbia reserve over the past 50 years.

Focuses on the Anishnaabe and changes they made in their negotiation tactics, away from a process dependant on ceremony, formal rhetoric and consensus decision-making, in order to remain on their land.

Description of various forts, posts, trade relations and trading companies found in the area.

Book review of: Early Fur Trade on the Northern Plains edited by Raymond W. Wood and Thomas D. Thiessen.

Brief chronology with dates and a short description of historical events regarding land claims in Canada. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]

Describes the arrival of Christian missionaries in the Red River Settlement in the early 1820s and then their expansion into the North-West Territories in the 1840s and 50s. Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 60.

Proceedings of a conference held May 12-14, 1994, in Bkejwanong, Ontario.

Book review of: Earth Wisdom by Yolanda Broyles-González and Pilulaw Khus.

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.

Collection of material gathered through interviews with Elders from Manitoba First Nation.

Examines the history of an ecologically diverse Native American reserve and their endeavours to safeguard the environment.

Describes Dewdney’s policies and action while acting as the Indian Commissioner for the North-West Territories under Sir John A. Macdonald’s government. Entire issue on one .pdf, scroll to p.13.

Book review of: The Edge of the Woods Jon Parmenter.

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).

This 60 year old man who lives at Lubicon Lake is a member of the Whitefish Lake band. Describes attempts to move such people to the reserve and their desire to remain at LubiconLake and have a reserve established there.

Atlantic Canada Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Saint Mary's University, 1999.

Anthropology and Archaeology Thesis (M.A.) -- University of Saskatchewan, 1990.

Looks at nineteen experimental cooking residues that were prepared in replica cooking pots from meat, fish and plants used as food by the Natives of Western Canada.

Explores treaties in the context of adjustment to European contact and Aboriginal preference for the French.

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.

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.

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.

Interview includes a story of how the Cree acquired horses.

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

Consists of an interview with Eliza Kneller where she describes the smallpox epidemic following World War I. She gives a description of basket making, an account of life in a Catholic school in Chicago and an account of New Year's celebrations amongst children.

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 with Eliza Kneller where she discusses her life in the United States. She tells of a premonition of the death of her son.

Consists of an interview where she gives general reminiscences about her childhood and an account of Christmas festivities. She also gives brief mention of ghost stories and native superstitions.

Consists of an interview where she tells of stories for amusement and general reminiscences of her life.

Consists of an interview with Elmira McLeod where she gives a general account of her life.

Consists of an interview where she discusses the abuses of the educational system when she was a child. She also gives an account of her experiences during the Second World War.

Consists of an interview that gives an account of an earthquake in 1933.

Sociology and Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)-- Concordia University, 2003.

Book review of: Emerging from the Mist edited by R.G. Matson, Gary Coupland and Quentin Mackie.

Examines the Indigenous use of land in the Cypress Hills, the decline of the bison (buffalo) herds and the resulting migrations and conflicts, the process of making Treaty 4 and the subsequent imposition and enforcement of Canadian law on Indigenous communities. Entire Issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 5.

Description of the organization of a traditional camp ; description of the Ladies Handgame of the Assiniboine or Stoney.

3rd Edition.

Book review of: End-of-Earth People: The Arctic Sahtu Dene by Bern Will Brown.

Describes American Indian activities in Cincinnati from the time of the first settlers to1900.

Book review of: Enduring Nations: Native Americans in the Midwest edited by R. David Edmunds.