The Shushwap Vocabulary. This issue is a collection of Shushwap words with explanations in English and Chinook shorthand for how to pronounce Shushwap words. Includes discussion of how the word for beaver is now used for money and adaption for actual words for beaver, as well as a brief discussion regarding gender of siblings and kin relationships.
Our English Pages describes visits by Right Reverend Bishop Dontenwill, movements of other Reverends in the region, and the opening of churches in Kamloops and Vancouver. Holiday rates offered by the Canadian Pacific Railway. Description of book received entitled The Thompson Indians of British Columbia by James Teit. Quotes passage related to Indian Agent Irwin's report on Indians. Very positive account of Indian agriculture and complaints of Indians about "halfbreeds" and white men selling liquor and stealing horses.
Calendar. Easter Sunday. History of the Resurrection: I. Holy Women Going to the Sepulchre; II Mary Magdalen. Sacred History: Joseph's Brethren in Egypt.
Historic Girls: Stories of Girls Who Have Influenced the History of Their Times
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A photograph of two Metis men sitting in front of a store in Duck Lake, NWT at the time of the visit of the Half-Breed Commission, 1900.
Report includes the following papers:
Report of the Director by J. W. Powell
Esthetology, or the Science of Activities Designed to Give Pleasure by J. W. Powell
Myths of the Cherokee by James Mooney
Report includes the following papers:
Tusayan Migration Traditions by Jesse Walter Fewkes
Localization of Tusayan Clans by Cosmos Mindeleff
Mounds in Northern Honduras by Thomas Gann
Mayan Calendar Systems by Cyrus Thomas
Primitive Numbers by W. J. McGee
Numeral Systems of Mexico and Central America by Cyrus Thomas
Tusayan Flute and Snake Ceremonies by Jesse Walter Fewkes
The Wild Rice Gatherers of the Upper Lakes by Albert Ernest Jenks
Report includes the following papers:
Report of the Director by J. W. Powell
Ethnological Results of the Point Barrow Expedition by John Murdoch
The Medicine-Men of the Apache by John G. Bourke
A photograph of the Half-Breed Commissioners sitting in their mess tent with Metis men and women during their visit to Devil's Lake near Sandy Lake reserve, 1900.