Hunting, Fishing, Trapping & Gathering

Shows the bow and arrow would not have been good for hunting large game unless hunting strategies were changed.

Photograph taken In Nunavut.

Description by Dommasch: "Arctic Circle #1 Wager Bay; July 1990. A seal caught in a fishing net is skinned". In [Nunavut].

Description by Dommasch: "Arctic Circle #1 Wager Bay; July 1990. A seal caught in a fishing net is skinned". In [Nunavut].

Book review of: Adventurers in the New World: The Saga of the Coureurs des Bois by Georges-Hébert Germain.

Issues of land rights and resources litigated in these two important law cases.

Book review of: After Custer by Paul L. Hedren.

Comments on three main themes: female sexuality, impact of colonization on First Nations women, and residential school experiences.

Looks at the socioeconomic, political, and cultural factors that contributed to the spearfishing crisis in northern Wisconsin and the battered attempts by the Ojibwe to exercise their treaty-based fishing rights. The article also examines the state of relations between Native and non-Native residents.

Findings showed the transition away from traditional foods rich in Vitamin A was responsible for a majority of subjects having a Vitamin A intake below the estimated average requirement.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 1981.

Research paper suggests that geographical name study enables researchers to identify cultural variations in various locations in Japan.

Examines economic opportunity, wilderness preservation and cultural survival in Alaska and the Yukon. To access this article, scroll down to page 8.

This website features reports, historic photographs, newspaper articles, personal accounts, tools for teachers and resources about Alaska and its inhabitants, and links to other useful sites.

Ed Broome was a government employee at the time the CCF government took power. He talks about the NDP programs in northern Saskatchewan, particularly government trading posts, the conversion of trading posts into cooperatives and his brief impressions of Norris and Brady.

The quality of this tape is very poor and most of the interview is inaudible.

Book review of: Alberta's North by Donald G. Wetherell and Irene R.A. Kmet. Book is part of the Alberta Reflections series, its focus includes "Native/non-Native relations, technological development, and federal/provincial relations."

Book review of: Aleut Identities by Katherine L. Reedy-Maschner.

Social Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Cambridge, 2004.

Consists of an interview where he tells of legends concerning the arrival of white men in North America; Parallels to the Norse (Viking) sagas -- (Is this possibly an example of the oral tradition presenting the Indian view early Viking settlement?). He tells of prophecies concerning the arrival of white men and the eventual return of Indian ways; describes the role of women in pre-Columbian America; and gives accounts of native medical practices and the linguistic evolution.

Describes traditional northern Indian lifestyle; the establishment of Wood Buffalo National Park; and requests for reserve at Garden River.

An interview with Alfred Mishibinijima who recounts his life working on farms and in lumber camps, the origin of some Ojibway words and the aftermath of the War of 1812. Transcribed by Joanne Greenwood.

Interviewee is chief of the Horse Lakes Reserve. He describes unexplained loss of large areas of Indian land in the area.

Describes differences in the hunting territory between the Eastern James Bay Area and Southern Labrador and also notes distinctions regarding land tenure and rights.

Comments on the intention of Asian explorers to exploit the rich natural resources, of Cape York Peninsula, for as long as it was profitable.

File contains 4 negatives showing scenes from a Hunter Safety Program held for students at the All Saints Residential School in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan on May 13, 1966. Scanned image shows female students seated in a classroom with what appears to be a group of male students or instructors standing in the background.

Allan Quandt has lived in northern Saskatchewan for over 30 years. He was a friend of Malcolm Norris and Jim Brady.

Allan Quandt discusses general problems of implementing programs in the north.

Allan Quandt talks about Malcolm Norris and Jim Brady and their relationships with the CCF party.

Allen Ahenakew, Interpreter, and E.R. Conn, Federal Supervisor of Indian Affairs, at microphones at the Trappers Convention in Prince Albert, SK, 1961.

An interview with Alphonse Antoine who gives an account of his life. Interpreter: Ernest Debassigae ; transcriber: Joanne Greenwood.

Area of land covered by trapper, aged 74, in northern Alberta -- his life as a trapper, and working in Fort McMurray.

First Nations Justice System provides future opportunity to apply alternative forms of treatment in correcting the behaviour of First Nations people who violate Provincial Wildlife Regulations/Law.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 2006.

Analysis of a waste dump at the Russian-American Company fur-hunting outpost showed bulk of diet focused on traditional local food.

Consists of an interview where he gives an account of experiences in World War II. He also talks about gathering and preparation of wild rice.

Discusses the two most influential environmental assessments; the Berger Inquiry (Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry) and BEARP (Beaufort Sea Environmental Assessment and Review Process) as well as the Great Whale River Hydroelectric Project in Northern Quebec and the Ekati Diamond Mine in NWT.

Discusses traditional remedies which were incorporated into Western medicine, despite the general attitude that they were of little use.

Includes Culture Areas : Volume 1: Tribes and Traditions: Abenaki-Missouri Volume 2: Tribes and Traditions: Miwook - Zapotec (Be patient download is very slow)

Book review of: American Indians and National Forests by Theodore Catton.

Book review of: American Indians and the Market Economy, 1775-1850 edited by Lance Greene and Mark R. Plane. Review located by scrolling to page 167.

Environment Thesis (Ph.D)--Michigan State University, 2007.

Analysis of the Nets'aii Gwich'in settlement economy, which combines the traditional, the hunt and other subsistence activities, with the modern.

Analysis of faunal remains provides information about the ethnic identity of northern fur seal harvesters and shows the importance of pups as a subsistence resource.

Documents some key changes, due to hydroelectric projects, that have occurred in Split Lake Cree resource harvesting activities.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--The University of Manitoba, 1972.