BC Studies, no. 184, Winter, 2014/2015, pp. 144-146
Description
Book review of Chinookan Peoples of the Lower Columbia edited by Robert T. Boyd, Kenneth M. Ames, and Tony A. Johnson.
Entire book review section on one PDF. To access this review scroll to p. 144.
University of Saskatchewan Library Dean's Research Lecture
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Cheryl A. Metoyer
Description
Speaker discusses Indigenous ways of knowing and worldviews, and how they informed the subject headings developed during the Mashantucket Pequot Thesaurus Project.
Duration: 35:40.
University of Saskatchewan Library Dean's Research Lecture, 2012.
Robert Goodvoice tells a story of the Sioux Indians' first contact with Europeans and prophecies regarding the Europeans. He gives accounts of the 1851 Treaty made at Fort Laramie between the Sioux and the American Government and of the 1862 Minnesota Massacre. He also tells of the establishment of the Wahpaton (Round Plain) Reserve in Saskatchewan, and its chiefs.
Robert Goodvoice tells a story about the journey of a group of Sioux from the United States to Canada, through Portage la Prairie, Manitoba to Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. He tells of a settlement of the Wahpaton (Round Plain) Reserve in Saskatchewan and the division of the Sioux tribe. He also talks about Indian medicine and curing practices and reflects on the loss of knowledge of the old ways.
He tells a number of stories of people and objects which were lost, and how they were found with the help of "people with the power to find things" (prophets).
He tells a story about the origins of the Dakota (Sioux) guardian spirit and his powers; and how Iktomi differs from the equivalent Cree spirit power (Wisakedjak).
He tells a story of a woman who was taken prisoner and carried off to live in an enemy camp; her treachery against her brothers and husband when they came to rescue her; how she was killed by her own mother because of her treachery; her mother's atonement after the killing.
He gives a description of raising and educating children; tells a story of a spirit helping two children; and tells another story used in the teaching of children.