|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
"Almost Every Place, Every Rock, Had a Name": A Consideration of Place-name Density on King Island, Alaska
Deanna Paniataaq Kingston AlterNative, Vol. 5, No. 1, 2009, pp. 6-25. Compares concentration of place names on King Island to those reported for other communities and poses factors that may have contributed to this difference. More information... (Rating: 2.50, Votes: 4, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
By Any Other Name: Rhetorical Colonialism in North America
Mary E. Stuckey, John M. Murphy American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Vol. 25, No. 4, 2001, pp. 73-98. Explores and analyzes the political consequences and power in naming or labeling, as well as discussing how problems may end up disregarding reality. More information... (Rating: 3.12, Votes: 24, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Caribou, River and Ocean: Harvaqtuurmiut Landscape Organization and Orientation
Darren Keith Études Inuit Studies, Vol. 28, No. 2, Espaces-Lieux-Noms / Spaces-Places-Names, 2004, pp. 39-56. Explores the Inuit society located around Baker Lake, Nunavut and how geography influenced caribou migration and consequently patterns of settlement. More information... (Rating: 1.82, Votes: 11, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Cartographic Lessons: Susanna Moodie’s Roughing It in the Bush and Thomas King’s Green Grass, Running Water
Florence Stratton Canadian Literature, No. 161-162, On Thomas King, Summer-Autumn, 1999, pp. 82-102. 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. More information... (Rating: 3.21, Votes: 14, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Co-Managed Research: Non-Indigenous Thoughts on an Indigenous Toponymy Project in Northern British Columbia
Karen Heikkilä, Gail Fondahl Journal of Cultural Geography, Vol. 29, No. 1, In Between Worlds: Place, Experience, and Research in Indigenous Geography, 2012, pp. 61-86. Looks back at a 2003 study on Dakelh place names and experiences faced while negotiating Indigenous, place-based cultural research. [Find location of Tl'azt'en Nation using Google Maps] More information... (Rating: 3.50, Votes: 10, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
The Geographical Names Used by the Indians of the Pacific Coast
T. T. Waterman Geographical Review, Vol. 12, No. 2, April 1, 1922, pp. 175-194. Looks at old Aboriginal names, their meanings and the folklore associated with names from Puget Sound to northern California. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 3, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Getting the Words Right: Perspectives on Naming and Places in Athapaskan Oral History
Julie Cruikshank Arctic Anthropology, Vol. 27, No. 1, 1990, pp. 52-65. 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. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 0, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
How Raven Marked the Land When the Earth Was New
Ann Fienup-Riordan Études Inuit Studies, Vol. 41, No. 1-2, Bestiaire inuit = Inuit Bestiary, 2017, pp. 215-241. 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. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 0, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
The Indians had a Word for It
United Press International Journal of American Indian Education, Vol. 12, No. 3, May 1973, pp. [17-18]. Explains that many place names and common English words, like skunk, raccoon, moose originated in North American Indigenous languages. More information... (Rating: 3.75, Votes: 8, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Indigenous Oral History and Settlement Archaeology in Barkley Sound, Western Vancouver Island
Iain McKechnie BC Studies, No. 187, These Outer Shores: Archaeological Insights into Indigenous Lifeways Along the Exposed Coasts of Bri, Autumn, 2015, pp. 193-228. Compares Nuu-chah-nulth oral histories and the place names within them to archaeological timing of settlements. More information... (Rating: 2.50, Votes: 2, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Indigenous Toponyms as Pedagogical Tools: Reflections from Research with Tl'azt'en Nation, British Columbia
Karen Heikkilä, Gail Fondahl Fennia, Vol. 188, No. 1, 3rd Nordic Geographics Meeting Special Issue, 2010, pp. 105-122. Looks at the importance of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) in education using Dakelh place-names as examples. [Find location of Tl'azt'en Nation using Google Maps] More information... (Rating: 2.14, Votes: 7, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Introduction: [Études/Inuit/Studies, Vol. 28, 2004]
Ludger Müller-Wille, Linna Weber Müller-Wille Études Inuit Studies, Vol. 28, No. 2, Espaces-Lieux-Noms / Spaces-Places-Names, 2004, pp. 5-8. Introductory article on themed issued devoted to; Spaces-Places-Names. More information... (Rating: 3.57, Votes: 7, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
La Protection des Noms de Lieux et des Sites Sacrés Autochtones, au Niveau des Instances Internationales
Françoise Morin Études Inuit Studies, Vol. 28, No. 2, Espaces-Lieux-Noms / Spaces-Places-Names, 2004, pp. 203-209. Brief outline of efforts by such international organizations as International Labour Organization, the United Nations and the World Intellectual Property Organization to protect scared sites and place names. More information... (Rating: 3.33, Votes: 6, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
La Toponymie Religieuse et l’Appropriation Symbolique du Territoire par les Inuit du Nunavik et du Nunavut
Bernard Saladin d’Anglure Études Inuit Studies, Vol. 28, No. 2, Espaces-Lieux-Noms / Spaces-Places-Names, 2004, pp. 107-131. Discusses the complexity of the Inuit's relationship with their territory as expressed in place names and conceptions of scared sites. More information... (Rating: 2.50, Votes: 4, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Landscapes, Houses, Bodies, Things: "Place" and the Archaeology of Inuit Imaginaries
Peter Whitridge Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, Vol. 11, No. 2, June 2004, pp. 213-250. "The notion of imaginaries and the rethinking of place are illustrated with Inuit archaeological and ethnographic examples." More information... (Rating: 3.75, Votes: 4, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Learning to Talk to the Land: Online Stewardship in Taku River Tlingit Territory
Christine Schreyer, Jon Corbett, Nicole Gordon, Colleen Larson Decolonization, Vol. 3, No. 3, Indigenous Land-Based Education, 2014, pp. 106-133. Article describes a web-based participatory mapping tool(https://trt.geolive.ca/) which combines ideologies of stewardship with place names and stories. [Find location of Taku River Tlingit First Nation using Google Maps] More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 0, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Native Claims and Place Names in Canada's Western Arctic
William C. Wonders The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, Vol. 7, No. 1, 1987, pp. 111-120. Contends that toponomy (study of place names) proved useful in settling disputes among Indigenous peoples about areas of overlapping land use prior to the settling of comprehensive land claims by the federal government. More information... (Rating: 4.06, Votes: 16, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Native Connection to Place: Policies and Play
Rena Martin American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 25, No. 1, 2001, pp. 35-40. Discusses perspectives on relationship to land, and cultural and linguistic ties to places. More information... (Rating: 2.78, Votes: 9, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
On Top of the World: Ernest S. Burch, Jr.'s Contribution to the 1983 National Geographic Society Peoples of the Arctic Map
Robert P. Wheelersburg Arctic Anthropology, Vol. 49, No. 2, 2012, pp. 128-142. Discusses the creation of the traditional Sami resource territories map with detailed locations and place names. More information... (Rating: 3.57, Votes: 7, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Pausing Along the Journey: Learning Landscapes, Environmental Change, and Toponymy Amongst the Sikusilarmiut
Anne Henshaw Arctic Anthropology, Vol. 43, No. 1, 2006, pp. 52-66. Presents the initial results of a project being conducted on place-names in the Sikusilarmiut land use area of southwest Baffin Island. More information... (Rating: 3.75, Votes: 8, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Recording Toponyms to Document the Endangered Hopi Language
Saul L. Hedquist, Stewart B. Koyiyumptewa, Peter M. Whiteley, Leigh J. Kuwanwisiwma, Kenneth C. Hill .... [et al.] American Anthropologist, Vol. 116, No. 2, June 2014, pp. 324-331. Looks at project to preserve Hopi place-names for sacred locations and landforms. More information... (Rating: 3.33, Votes: 3, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Recuellir les Toponymes Inuit: Pour Quoi Faire? top
Béatrice Collignon Études Inuit Studies, Vol. 28, No. 2, Espaces-Lieux-Noms / Spaces-Places-Names, 2004, pp. 89-106. Discusses the difficulties in collecting Inuit place names, the meeting that took place in 2003 which reviewed their placement on blue-print maps, and the final step of recognition by the Federal government. More information... (Rating: 5.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
The Significance of Creating First Nation Traditional Names Maps
Andy Thomas, Florence Paynter First Nations Perspectives Journal, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2010, pp. 48-64. Looks at the Traditional Names Mapping Project with one goal being to educate the public of the five distinct language groups in Manitoba. More information... (Rating: 3.75, Votes: 4, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
"Something Savage and Luxuriant": American Identity and the Indian Place-Name Literature
RDK Herman American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Vol. 39, No. 1, 2015, pp. 25-46. Discusses how white settler attitudes towards Native American place names evolved from ignorance and elimination to acceptance and fascination. More information... (Rating: 3.00, Votes: 5, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
"They Live in Lonesome Dove": Media and Contemporary Western Apache Place-Naming Practices
M. Eleanor Nevins Language in Society, Vol. 37, No. 2, 2008, pp. 191-215. Comments on the history of the place-names given to newly constructed neighbourhoods on the reservation in relation to locally established social idioms. More information... (Rating: 2.50, Votes: 6, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Go to Page 1 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
General