Journal of Ethnopharmacology, vol. 52, no. 2, June 1996, pp. 85-94
Description
Field study based on interviews and information sessions aimed at gathering information about the use of medicinal plants by the Carrier people of northcentral British Columbia.
Anthropology of Consciousness, vol. 7, no. 3, September 1996, pp. 30-43
Description
Compares one child's experience of growing up in the Gitxsan/Witsuwit'en culture to that of a child adopted out of the community in terms of the cultural belief of rebirth of an Elder or relative in a baby.
Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, vol. 24, no. 3, June 1996, pp. 217-221
Description
Compares 1988 and 1980 data gathered by the Medical Services Branch, from the Pacific Region of Health Canada and the recent B.C. Children's Health Survey.
Pocahontas' Granddaughters Spiritual Transition and Tradition of Carrier Women of British Columbia
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jo-Anne Fiske
Ethnohistory, vol. 43, no. 4, Native American Womens Response to Christianity, Fall, 1996, pp. 663-681
Description
Explores differences between romanticized portrayals and the reality of colonized First Nations' women in relation to morality, spirituality and sexuality.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 2, Repatriation: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue, Spring, 1996, pp. 274-286
Description
Article describes the social and political factors and events that influenced and were a part of the extended process of repatriating potlatch artifacts that had been confiscated in 1922 under an amendment to the Indian Act prohibiting the potlatch ceremony.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 20, no. 3, 1996, pp. 181-249
Description
Book reviews of:
All My Sins Are Relatives by William S. Penn.
Aniyunwiya/Real Human Beings: An Anthology of Contemporary Cherokee Prose edited by Joseph Bruchac.
Becoming and Remaining a People: Native American Religions on the Northern Plains by Howard L.
Anglican Journal, vol. 122, no. 3, March 1996, p. 6
Description
Briefly discusses the lawsuit launched by former students of Alberni Indian Residential School in January 1996, now jointly and severally naming United Church of Canada and the Federal Government.