Includes Culture Areas :
Volume 1: Tribes and Traditions: Abenaki-Missouri
Volume 2: Tribes and Traditions: Miwook - Zapotec
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Remarks on Linguistic Ethnology: Introductory to the Report of Dr. A. F. Chamberlain on the Kootenay Indians ...
Report of the Kootenay Indians of South-eastern British Columbia
Report: 1892 on the North-Western Tribes of Canada
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Author/Creator
Alexander Francis Chamberlain
Horatio Hale
Description
Includes Remarks on Linguistic Ethnology: Introductory to the Report of Dr. A.F. Chamberlain on the Kootenay [Kootenai] Indians of South-Eastern British Columbia by Horatio Hale.
Report - 1885 on the north-western tribes of the Dominion of Canada
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Author/Creator
Committee on North-Western Tribes of the Dominion of Canada of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
Horatio Hale
Description
"Reports on the physical characters, languages, industrial and social condition of the North-western tribes of the Dominion of Canada," focuses on Blackfoot, Cree and Ojibwe/Ojibway, 1885 era.
Report includes the following papers:
Report of the Chief by J. Walter Fewkes
The Mythical Origin of the White Buffalo Dance of the Fox Indians by Truman Michelson
The Autobiography of a Fox Indian Woman by Truman Michelson
Notes on Fox Mortuary Customs and Beliefs by Truman Michelson
Notes on the Fox Society Known as "Those Who Worship the Little Spotted Buffalo" by Truman Michelson
The Traditional Origin of the Fox Society Known as "The Singing Around Rite" by Truman Michelson
Report includes the following papers:
Report of the Chief by J. Walter Fewkes
Social Organization and Social Usages of the Indians of the Creek Confederacy by John R. Swanton
Religious Beliefs and Medical Practices of the Creek Indians by John R. Swanton
Aboriginal Culture of the Southeast by John R. Swanton
Indian Trails of the Southeast by William Edward Myer
Preliminary Notes on the Indians of British Columbia
Report on the Sarcee Indians
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Author/Creator
Franz Boas
[Edward Francis Wilson]
Description
Committee appointed to research and report on "physical characters, languages, and industrial and social condition of the North-Western Tribes of the Dominion of Canada; includes some commentary on the Sarcee peoples, and Inuit.
Focuses on colonists' perspectives of Vancouver Island First Nations including Aht, Nootka, Niinaht, Klah-oh-quots (Claqoquot); includes some Aht vocabulary.
Physical Characteristics of the Tribes of the North Pacific Coast
Third Report on the Indians of British Columbia
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Author/Creator
Franz Boas
Daniel Wilson
Description
Committee of Dr. E.B. Tylor, G.W. Bloxam, Sir Danel Wilson, Dr. G.M. Dawson and R.G. Haliburton appointed to investigate the physical characters, languages, and industrial and social condition of the people in what is now British Columbia.
A Short Statement of Facts Relating to the History, Manners, Customs, Language and Literature of the Mi'kmaq Tribe of Indian, in Nova Scotia and P.E. Island
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Author/Creator
Silas Tertius Rand
Description
"Being the substance of Two Lectures delivered in Halifax, in November 1849, at Public Meetings held for the purpose of instituting a Mission to that Tribe."