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Citizenship Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, February 1999, pp. 5-25
Description
Examines the reasons and legal aspects used by Canada to dispossess aboriginal people who have not ceded land through treaties, such as the Innu of Labrador-Quebec.
Consists of an interview with non-Indian employed at the Gabriel Dumont Institute in Regina. At the time of the interview he was writing a book on the history of the Metis nation.
Consists of an interview where she discusses Medicine Men and their purported powers. She briefly mentions Indian superstitions (being born with a caul on her face; being the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter).
Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 26, no. 1, 1999, pp. 95-103
Description
Looks at nineteen experimental cooking residues that were prepared in replica cooking pots from meat, fish and plants used as food by the Natives of Western Canada.
Provides list with English and scientific name, and Inuit name collected at Chesterfield and where different at Baker Lake (B) as well as explanatory comments.
Consists of an interview that includes detailed descriptions of plant remedies; a story of Striped Walker who killed a Cree; the difference between medicines that are discovered and those that are revealed in dreams.
Arctic, vol. 36, no. 4, December 1983, pp. 350-355
Description
Looks at structure, hearth and floors of historical and pre-historic sites to determine seasonal occupation of American Indians in the Caniapiscau Reservoir.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 23, no. 3, Special Issue on Disease, Health, and Survival Among Native Americans, 1999, pp. 155-184
Description
Investigates differences in perceptions, by health care providers and their Aboriginal clients, which led the author to believe that the differences were due, in part, to attempts by health professionals to assert authoritative control.
Consists of an interview where she gives a lengthy discourse on Indian medicines. She also gives a description of basket making and an account of being lost in the woods.
Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 26, no. 1, 1999, pp. 83-94
Description
Looks at a collection of more than 130 native food plants and animals from Western Canada to help with the identification of residues absorbed into the walls of Late Precontact vessels.
(abstract and article in French) Experience of two Environment Canada employees left without shelter and clothing appoximately 150 kilometers from Baker Lake.
BC Studies, no. 124, Politics and Planning, Winter, 1999, pp. 111-113
Description
Book review of: First Fish, First People edited by Judith Roche and Meg McHutchison.
River of the Angry Moon by Mark Hume with Harvey Thommasen.
Scroll to page 111 to read review.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 7, no. 4, December 1983, pp. 2-3
Description
Brief article describes the construction of the fish traps on the banks of the Darling River, New South Wales, Australia by the local Aboriginal inhabitants.