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.
Documentary on the last surviving Yahi who walked out of the bush into a northern California town in 1911 and spent the last four years of his life at the Museum of Anthropology in San Francisco.
Duration: 56:43.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 4, Fall, 2008, pp. 547-548
Description
Book review of: Landscape Travelled by Coyote and Crane: The World of the Schitsu'umsh (Coeur d'Alene Indians) by Rodney Frey in collaboration with the Schitsu'umsh.
BC Studies, no. 160, The Middle Fraser, Winter, 2008/2009, pp. 127-128
Description
Book review of: The Origin of the Wolf Ritual: The Whaling Indians, West Coast Legends and Stories by Edward Sapir.
Scroll down to page 127 to read review.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 16, no. 2, 1992, pp. 77-99
Description
Consulting ethnographic literature, Pawnee traditions and historical records reveal a complex heritage where funeral preparations varied according to rank.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 1, Winter, 1992, pp. 25-37
Description
Author examines the writings and compares the careers of two missionaries working to convert Indigenous peoples in North America; focuses on the missionaries’ engagement with the elders, storytellers and culture of the nations.