Discusses how author Gerald Vizenor's emphasis on the bear is explained by the animal's role as the renewer of Ojibwe life in Midewiwin ceremony.

Looks at the Kwakwaka'wakw potlatch participants' perpspectives and Nez Perce dancers' roles and experience and finds commonalities amid the differences.

Visual Arts Thesis (M.A.)--Texas Woman's University, 1999.

Book review of: The Potlatch Papers by Christopher Bracken.

Book review of: The Potlatch Papers by Christopher Bracken. Hamatsa by Jim Dowell. To access this review, scroll to page 87.

Designed for fourth grade students, but can be used as starting point for further discussion.

File contains 19 negatives of Pow Wow dancers at Indian Pow-Wow Parade and Pow Wow Princesses Aug15-90. The negatives are all outdoor pictures of dancerns in traditional garb.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 1994.

Book review of: Powwow edited by Clyde Ellis, Luke Eric Lassiter and Gary H. Dunham.

Need to return to traditional format of Indian ceremonies is discussed.

Several speakers voice concerns about changes that have crept in to the ceremonies. Recall how things were done in former times and stress need to return to old ways.

The custom of gift-giving at traditional ceremonies. How some ceremonies have been changed and abused.

Discusses the social and spiritual power of traditional and contemporary dance.

How WWII veterans told of their deeds like traditional warriors in the Sundance tent.The Sundance and how the strict rituals of the past have begun to change. No date given, but this workshop possibly took place during November 1973.

Description of traditional Indian ceremonies and the changes which have taken place in them. Mr. Kanipitetew is concernedthat people are no longer following the strict rituals of the past.

Reflects on traditional powwows which celebrate cultural generosity and bonding.

Family and Consumer Resources Thesis (M.Sc.)--The University of Arizona, 1987.

Discusses spiritual and motivational competition practice tactics.

Book review of: Preserving the Sacred by Michael Angel.

Comments on each of the six elements; land, relationships with living things, family, healing, ceremony and storytelling.

A group of Cree men, women and children in powwow style clothing pose in front of a group of teepees. Taken at Yorkton Jubilee celebrations, July, 1958. An Aboriginal man in western clothing kneels at the centre.

Discusses ritualistic chants and their role in the society of the Chukchi people of Siberia.

Examines traditional Native American healing and ceremonial psychoactive agents and how colonization has contributed to substance abuse.

Anthropology and Sociology Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia, 1972

An examination of the Ceremony's main character Tayo mental struggles and its representation of Indigenous cultures connection to land.

American Indian Studies (M.A.)--University of Arizona, 1998.

Discusses the importance of potatoes and how Indigenous farmers strengthen local economies and wellbeing based on cultural traditions and biological diversity.

Examines the use of Indigenous storytelling to regain ancestral memories and restore cultural identity.

A short story about respect.

Reprint of George Catlin oil on paper showing a Mandan male, standing on a circular house structure, holding a drum and pointing a bow at the sky. He is surrounded by a group of onlookers.

Historical note:

George Catlin (b. 26 July 1796 - d. 23 December 1872) was an American painter, author and traveler who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the Old West.

History of this rare pamphlet.

Criminology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Ottawa, 2017.

Book review of: Reading Beyond Words edited by Jennifer S.H. Brown and Elizabeth Vibert. To read this review, scroll down to page 107.

Interview with Elder working at the University of British Columbia First Nations House of Learning.

Interview with Elder working at the University of British Columbia First Nations House of Learning.

Explores the history of organized physical leisure practices of Native North Americans.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia, 2002.

Interdisciplinary Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 2017Focusess on experiences of Madelaine McCallum, Mike Dengeli, Mique'l Dangeli, Leela Gilday, and Ronnie Dean Harris.

Artist provides background about the robes and their significance, and discusses reconnecting to her culture through creating new versions.

See:

Chapter Two: Compact, Contract, Covenant: The Evolution of First Nations Treaty-Making by J.R. Miller.

Chapter Six: Resisting Canada’s Will: Manitoba’s Entry into Confederation by Robert Wardhaugh and Barry Ferguson.

Chapter Eleven: “A More Accurate Face on Canada to the World”: The Creation of Nunavut by P. Whitney Lackenbauer and Andr&ecaute Légar&eacute.

Book review of: Recording Culture by Christopher A. Scales.

Comments on the controversy over Native American dance ceremonies. Originally published in North American Review, July 1929.

Examines the effects of cultural theft that infringes upon religious rituals and ceremonies within Native American cultures.

Book review of: Red Medicine by Patrisia Gonzales.

Book review of: Red Medicine by Patrisia Gonzales.

Three colour and 17 black and white photographs of a wedding ceremony held at Red Pheasant Reserve (nd). A Caucasian man and a women of African descent are getting married. Several Aboriginal people attend and conduct the ceremony are dressed in beaded, ceremonial clothing. The ceremony was held outdoors.

Practicum for Master of Landscape Architecture (M.A)-University of Manitoba, 2020.