Interview with the respected storyteller and singer Antoine Lonesinger. Interview includes the Legend of Cut Knife Hill and stories of BlackRock and Chokecherry Wood.
Antoine Lonesinger discusses different methods of earning a living that included making charcoal and lime. Also included is the story of a boy saved a camp from starvation with the help of the raven spirit.
Interview includes stories about a ghost priest and a non-existent camp. Also included is a story of how a lame boy's skill as a medicine man won him a chieftainship and a wife.
Interview includes a story of a woman, who when captured by enemy warriors betrays her husband and brothers to her captors and so brings about her death.
Interview includes stories about a Cree band who avenged the killing of a young boy by the Blackfoot. He tells of his grandfather who helped a Cree raiding party find food.
Interview includes a biographical account of Antoine Lonesinger's life that includes stories about farming, trapping, house construction and the making of charcoal and lime. He also tells of the murder of an Indian Agent at the hands of a Blackfoot named Owl Eyes.
Interview with Mr Lonesinger who tells stories of Indian agents both good and bad. He also tells of the Battle of the Cut Knife Hill and the banning of the Sundance.
Interview includes stories of attacks on women by Blackfoot and Cree raiders. It also includes the story of the acquisition of the Sioux Dance (or Grass Dance) from the bone grass spirits.
Native Studies Review, vol. 5, no. 1, Native Health Research in Canada, 1989, pp. 53-70
Description
Looks at an ecological approach, that incorporates environmental, cultural & historical data with biological data, to help understand the causes of acute ear infections [Text in French].
Abstract: The territorial aspirations and achievements of Aboriginal minorities in the common-law jurisdictions of North America, Australia and New Zealand can be divided according to three varieties of political-legal situations; those in areas of initiation, enhancement and omission. In the first of these, to which attention is here confined, there has been no legally defined and protected land-base, and Aboriginal land claims are or have been the subject of recent litigation, negotiation and settlement.
A discussion of Land rights under Treaty #7; trade of furs for goods; and the dispersal of the Blackfoot people and eventual return to the Blackfoot Reserve under Crowfoot.
A set of 17 photographs of Lydia and Napthelie McKenzie and their daughter Jemima Charles on their trapline near Stanley Mission preparing the meat and hide of a bear shot by their son Malcolm McKenzie.
Interview of Charlie Chief who discusses the a Grass Dance, Round Dance and Sioux Dance (including songs). Also included are songs. The discusses the difference between old and new ways. Alphonse Littlepoplar is the intterpreter
Discussion by Elders who express regrets at loss of traditional customs and values and desire a return of schools on reserves ; a need to preserve Indian ceremonies and Indian medicines ; concerns about problems with alcohol recur throughout.
Elders discuss contemporary problems. Recurring themes are: problems with alcohol; education by whites from an early age; need to return to traditional teaching by elders in combination with white education.
Elders speak of their concerns regarding leadership on the reserves; new young leaders with education but no experience who ignore the elders and their advice; the failure to educate the young in traditional Indian ways.
Discussion of Indian ceremonies: how these are passed on from generation to generation; the role of women. Tipis: particular kinds of tipis; decorated tipis; tipis inrelation to death customs. No date given but probably January 1974, same as the others in this series.
Discussion of: Role of elders in setting young people on the right road ; Importance of breast-feeding and giving up alcohol ; Need for a tipi on each reserve, to be kept for prayer, pipe ceremonies and the counselling of the young.
American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 79, no. 4, August 1989, pp. 503-520
Description
Study examines the relationship between obesity and adult-onset diabetes and proposes that this occurs due to the interaction of susceptible genotypes and a low fiber diet.
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 9, no. 1, 1989, pp. 55-83
Description
Studies the existing process and suggests a more appropriate system for Aboriginal participation in environmental and resource management that takes into account the traditional world view.
Journal of Nutrition Education, vol. 21, no. 3, June 1989, pp. 127-132
Description
Information on food-use and weekly expenditures was gathered through a series of interviews conducted in 1981 and 1985. Seventy-three families completed interviews in 1981 and ninety-eight in 1985. Results showed significant increase in use of traditional food.
Discussion of the signing of Treaty 8 at Fort Chipewyan, and treaty promises; relationship between Crees and Chipewyans; and how the location of schools has forced people to settle in areas where they are unable to pursue traditional lifestyles.