Brief stories from various First Nations about the origin and discovery of tobacco, and descriptions of the beliefs and traditions surrounding its use.
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.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 12, no. 1, 1992, pp. 37-50
Description
Examines links between traditional and modern planning perspectives, to provide an approach sensitive to community values that is usable by external consultants and the community itself.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 16, no. 2, 1992, pp. 37-56
Description
Chronicles the complex relationship between archaeologists and Native Americans. The author argues that changes have only occured because of law, not ethics.
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.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 7, no. 2, 1992, pp. 26-34
Description
Three Inuit artists, Iyola Kingwatsiak, Kananginak Pootoogook, and Jimmy Manning, are interviewed by telephone after attending the Conference on Inuit Art.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 26.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 7, no. 3, Summer/Fall, 1992, pp. 17-21
Description
Two Inuit artists, Oviloo Tunnillie and Martha Tickiq, are interviewed at the Mario Scott Gallery in Vancouver.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 17.