Transactions of the Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba, no. 11, Series 3, 1954-1955, p. [?]
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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.
Report includes the following papers:
Report of the Chief by J. Walter Fewkes
The Osage Tribe: Two Versions of the Child-Naming Rite by Francis La Flesche
Wawenock Myth Texts from Maine by Frank G. Speck
Native Tribes and Dialects of Connecticut: A Mohegan-Pequot Diary by Frank G. Speck
Picuris Children's Stories by John P. Harrington and Helen H. Roberts
Iroquoian Cosmology - Second Part by J. N. B. Hewitt
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 17, no. 1, Spring, 2005, pp. 42-61
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Argues that learning and speaking Ojibwemowin language is of vital importance to an individual's personal, spiritual, and political identity and development of an Ojibwe worldview.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 42.
"National publication for the Indians of Canada." Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Previously published as Indian Missionary Record .
Articles reflect the attitudes and policies of the time.
Speaker discusses Pimachiowin Aki, a project involving six Aboriginal communities and two provincial parks that are lobbying for 4.3 million hectors of land in Northern Manitoba and Ontario to be designated a UNESCO world heritage site.
Part 1: 30:42.
Part 2: 26:44.