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Washo-Northern Paiute Peyotism, a Study in Acculturation

Alternate Title
University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology ; v.40, no.3
E-Books
Author/Creator
Omer C. Stewart
Part of: University of California Publications in American archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 40, (pp63-142).
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Waste Management in Labrador and Northern Communities: Opportunities and Challenges

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Catherine M.H. Keske
Morgan Mills
Laura Tanguay
Jason Dicker
Northern Review, no. 47, Dealing with Resource Development in Canada's North, August 03, 2018, pp. 79-112
Mixed methods study that examines the challenges and opportunities of waste management—including household waste and accumulations generated by military installations and extractive industries—in Nain and Happy Valley-Goose Bay.
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Water-rights Settlements and Reclamation in Central Arizona as a Cross-cultural Experience: A Reexamination of Native Water Policy

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kenichi Matsui
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 35, no. 3, 2011, pp. 91-118
Discusses the legal and political fights for water in the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian community, and the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation, and looks at the impact of water-rights in those communities.
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A Way of Life

E-Books
Author/Creator
Marianne Bromley
[Ed Hall]
[Melanie Hadlereena]
[Attima Hadlari]
[Maureen Jensen]
[et al.]

Discusses the history of the fur trade in the Northwest Territories and contemporary trapping practices, and gives detailed instructions for making snowshoes, kamiks, spruce canoes, and trap sets and preparing and eating country food.

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A Way of Life Lost: The Legacy of Residential Schools

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Nation2Nation Speaker Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Stephen Augustine
Speaker talks about social life and customs of the Mik'maq and how residential schools interrupted their way of life. Duration: 51:20.
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We Are All Treaty People

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Kayak ; no. 65, 2018
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Canada's History
Kayak, no. 65, September 2018

Special themed issue of Canada's History's children's magazine Kayak (September 2018). Suitable for ages 7-12.

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We Are All Treaty People: Maritime Beginnings

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Royal Society of Canada 2012 Governor General Lecture Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
James Miller
Canada Research Chair in Native-Newcomer Relations traces the history of treaty-making from its early beginnings with the Peace and Friendship Treaties through to the present day. Lecture given at Dalhousie University. Duration: 41:17.
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We are All Treaty People: New Models for a Shared Future

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Royal Society of Canada 2012 Governor General Lecture Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Jim Miller
Speaker focuses on the history of First Nations-settler relations and treaty-making in British Columbia. Lecture given at the University of Victoria. Duration: 38:55.
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We are All Treaty People: Redefining the Relationship

Alternate Title
Royal Society of Canada 2012 Governor General Lecture Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Jim Miller
Canada Research Chair in Native-Newcomer Relations traces history of treaty-making in Canada, with particular reference to Ontario. Lecture given at the University of Waterloo. Duration: 44:36.
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We Are the Wuikinuxv Nation

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UBC Museum of Anthropology Pacific Northwest Sourcebook Series
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Pam Brown
Looks at the Wuikinuxv culture and history from a modern perspective using archival photographs.
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"We Celebrate Our Own Funeral, the Discovery of America:" Pathos, Promise, and Constraint in Simon Pokagon's (Potawatomie) Resistance to the 1893 World's Fair

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jason Edward Black
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 38, no. 1, 2018, pp. 165-181
Considers Potawatomie’s address at the 1893 World’s Fair, in which he used the platform to expose the realities of the U.S. Government Indian policy, as a rhetorical strategy of resistance and an attempt to garner sympathy from the public at large. Discusses the implications and potential fallout of Potawatomie’s move.
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We Don't Live in Snow Houses Now: Reflections of Arctic Bay

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Anna P. B. Monson
Arctic, vol. 30, no. 4, December 1977, p. 252
Book review of: We Don't Live in Snow Houses Now. Interviews by Rhoda Innuksuk and Susan Cowan, translated by Rhoda Innuksuk, Maudie Qitsualik and Luci Marquand, edited by Susan Cowan.
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We Have Stories: Five Generations of Indigenous Women in Water

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rosemary Georgeson
Jessica Hallenbeck
Decolonization, vol. 7, no. 1, Indigenous Peoples and the Politics of Water, 2018, pp. 20-38
Traces one family's relationship with water and fish and how colonial practices and policies impacted it.
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"We Must Farm to Enable Us to Live": The Plains Cree and Agriculture to 1900

Alternate Title
The Prairie West as Promised Land
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Sarah Carter

Disproves the commonly held belief that despite government efforts and assistance, reserve populations lacked the inclination or ability to farm.

Chapter five from The Prairie West as Promised Land edited by Chris Kitzan and R.D. Francis

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"We're Taking the Genius of Sequoyah into This Century": The Cherokee Syllabary, Peoplehood, and Perseverance

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ellen Cushman
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 26, no. 1, Spring, 2011, pp. 67-83
Discusses the development of the syllabary, making reading and writing in Cherokee possible, and looks at how present-day efforts of reading and writing with the syllabary and speaking Cherokee contribute to language perseverance.
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