Origins & Movement

Study of the origin and meaning of names of bodies of water and some land forms, and changes to them which occurred in Curve Lake First Nation and municipalities of North Kawartha, and Cavendish, Galway-Harvey.

Report includes the following papers: Report of the Director by J. W. Powell On the Evolution of Language by J. W. Powell Sketch of the Mythology of the North American Indians by J. W. Powell Wyandot Government: A Short Study of Tribal Society by J. W. Powell On Limitations to the Use of Some Anthropologic Data by J. W. Powell A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians by Dr. H. C. Yarrow Studies in Central American Picture-Writing by Edward S.

Report includes the following papers: Report of the Chief by J. Walter Fewkes The Mythical Origin of the White Buffalo Dance of the Fox Indians by Truman Michelson The Autobiography of a Fox Indian Woman by Truman Michelson Notes on Fox Mortuary Customs and Beliefs by Truman Michelson Notes on the Fox Society Known as "Those Who Worship the Little Spotted Buffalo" by Truman Michelson The Traditional Origin of the Fox Society Known as "The Singing Around Rite" by Truman Michelson

Fred Pine discusses his experiences in the First and Second World War.

Describes the Ojibwe expansion westward onto the Prairies, as well as Ojibwe-White relations during the 1790-1890 period.

Looks at the causes of the language changeover and discusses some of its symptoms.

Linguistics and Applied Linguistics (Ph.D.)--York University, [2015]

Contrary to the linguistic evidence, the analysis of the genetic data shows that the Na-Dene are similar to other Native American populations.

Book review of: People of the Coast by George Woodcock.

Delineates patterns of language transmission based on a study conducted in four Ontario communities: Midland, North Bay, Sudbury and Timmins. Also provides guidelines for future research and initiatives.

Discusses the authors own spoken-word practice, past influences, and how it is currently being molded.

Linguistic dating techniques are used to determine when the Inuit split into two major groups in Alaska.

Linguistics Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 1966.

Linguistics Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 1958.

Comments on the variety of Native American languages in Oklahoma and the actions that are necessary to ensure they stay alive and are not forgotten.

Looks at Pacific Islanders who joined and contributed to the Torres Strait Island society in the mid-1880s.

Examines language patterns to determine the extent of Eskimo speaking groups of the northeastern Asian coast.

GM haplotype frequencies used to determine geographic migrations. Geographic and language played an important part in genetic diversity.

Explores the origin of the term as a positive reflection of relations between Native Americans and whites and not as a disparagement.

Comments on a Native American community in New Mexico that has been engaged in revitalization and advancement of its mother tongue for 21 years.

Author concludes some borrowing exists in all languages and of these some can be traced to source. Map intended to accompany document not included in this digitized version.

A paper read at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Montreal, in August, 1882. Reprinted from the American Antiquarian for January and April, 1883.

Speaker discusses Pimachiowin Aki, a project involving six Aboriginal communities and two provincial parks that are lobbying for 4.3 million hectors of land in Northern Manitoba and Ontario to be designated a UNESCO world heritage site. Part 1: 30:42. Part 2: 26:44.

Using evolutionary theory to look at how interactions between cultures lead to the evolution of Indigenous groups.

Analyzes the various language groups within the two major language families, (North) Germanic and Uralic (includes Sami).

Presents an essay from the book Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind edited by Theodore Roszak, Mary Gomes and Allen Kanner.

Linguistics Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 1967.

Book review of, Kwakwaka'wakw Settlements, 1775-1920 by Robert Galois with contributions by Jay Powell and Gloria Cranmer Webster.

Webpage provides an overview of North American, Meso-American and South American languages spoken in Canada, the United States and Mexico. Links to main language families, language areas and language maps.

Linguistics Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Oregon, 2005.

Book review: The Language of the Inuit edited by Louis-Jacques Dorais.

Book review of: The Language of the Inuit by Louis-Jacques Dorais.

First part of presentation is April Iris Charol discussing concepts such as ownership, developing consciousness and the way words are interpreted. Second part of presentation is Khelsilem Rivers discussing how colonization shaped identity and indigenous lanaguages. Duration: 1:56:23.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 2, (pp29-80).

Book review of: The Learned Ones by Kelly S. McDonough.

"This article explores how local community practice has changed whereby communities are choosing to revitalize and maintain their languages, creating official policies to support those languages and thereby creating new speakers".

Ernest Merwick writes a letter to Margaret Stobie regarding possible Scottish (Orkney) connections to the Red River dialect of certain tribes in that area. Letter includes an Orkney fairytale. No date given, possibly the 1970's. No indexed terms.

Language Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Montreal, 2010.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 16, (pp47-118).

Discusses Greenberg's classification which places American languages into three families: Eskimo-Aleut, Na-Dene, and Amerind.

Book review of: Linguistics Studies of Native Canada edited by E. Cook and J. Kaye. Contains fifteen highly technical papers on various aspects of linguistic structure.

Book review of Loss and Renewal edited by Felicity Meakins and Carmel O'Shannessy.

Comments on the important impact the 'Macassans' had on Aboriginal languages and cultures.

Explores the specific features of the Hawaiian Medium Education model and the differences from Fishman's approach.

Reports on the interaction that took place between the Frisian, Dutch whalers and Greenlanders in the 17th and 18th centuries.