Dwellings & Architecture

Discusses program that developed skills through the use of environmentally sustainable building methods. Report forms part of the Bridges and Foundations Project on Urban Aboriginal Housing.

Comments on the two guiding objectives of the architecture and town planning designed by Douglas J. Cardinal.

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

Examination of the extinct city of Cahokia Mounds, outside of Collinsville, Illinois, its historical decline and excavation it.

Camp setting with a tipi and tent, male in foreground facing camera. Trees and mountains in background; summer scene.

Architecture Thesis (M.Arch.)--Dalhousie University, 2000.

Gives brief description of 11 multiple unit residential building projects in Canada and the United States, with links to further information.

Features the Canadian architect, Douglas Cardinal, who designed the Canadian Museum of Civilization, First Nations University of Canada and the National Museum of the American Indian. Includes links to biography, project list, organic design, and interpretations.

Extract from the eighth annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology.

Book review of: The Cherokees of Tuckaleechee Cove by Jon Marcoux.

Looks at the use of the modern day Cheyenne tipi and compares it to pre-European influence.

Consists of an interview where he describes the rituals associated with the Hamatsa dance. He also tells a story of how the Hamatsa dance originated.

Forms part of Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, v. 11 (p. [1]-276).

A church in Igloolik, N.W.T. [NU].

The choir outside the Anglican church in the community of Apex at Frobisher Bay, N.W.T. [NU]. In 1987 Frobisher Bay was renamed Iqaluit.

Geography and Planning Thesis (Ph.D)--University of Saskatchewan, 2018.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Virginia, 1997.

Discussion of a new housing design approach, which closely resembles pre-contact Aboriginal housing.

Presents results of a workshop held February, 2004 and recommendations for increasing the affordable housing available to Aboriginal people in Saskatoon. Report forms part of the Bridges and Foundations Project on Urban Aboriginal Housing.

Describes the impact of the collapse of the Quebec City bridge on the Mohawk community of Kahnawake.

Environmental Design Thesis (M.A.Sc.)--University of Waterloo, 1967.

Commentary on the planning process plus the public and critical reaction to the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian in 2004.

The congregation outside the Anglican church in the community of Apex at Frobisher Bay, N.W.T. [NU]. In 1987 Frobisher Bay was renamed Iqaluit.

The congregation outside the Anglican church in the community of Apex at Frobisher Bay, N.W.T. [NU]. In 1987 the community of Frobisher Bay was renamed Iqaluit.

Mouse over images to link to: household life (includes clothing, cooking, preserving food, etc.), village information (homes), resource gathering, society (includes role of elders and chiefs, governance, naming), gatherings (includes dancing and singing, trade), stages of life, and games.

Landscape Architecture Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008.

Looks at projects by architects John Paul Jones, Douglas Cardinal, Dennis Sun Rhodes, David Sloan, Robert Altman and others. Explains how values and identity are expressed within the designs and defined by existence to the landscape. Duration: 55:18.

Book review of: Contemporary Native American Architecture by Carol Herselle Krinsky.

Photograph of woman sitting on ground in front of tent, as dog watches; taken between Coppermine River and Dismal Lake[s], Nunavut.

Practicum towards Landscape Architecture Thesis (MLA)--University of Manitoba, 2013.

Author gives an overview of the museum and presents the story of its creation. Duration: 55:40.

Examines turn-of-the-century culture using missionary correspondence, archival photographers and Native accounts to show assimilation as an envisioning process.

Wide-ranging discussion among elders touching on many topics including kinship; illegitimate children; ceremonialism; therole of the elder; financing the elder who incurs some costs associated with the organization of a ceremony.

Elders discuss contemporary problems. Recurring themes are: problems with alcohol; education by whites from an early age; need to return to traditional teaching by elders in combination with white education.

Elders speak of their concerns regarding leadership on the reserves; new young leaders with education but no experience who ignore the elders and their advice; the failure to educate the young in traditional Indian ways.

Discussion of Indian ceremonies: how these are passed on from generation to generation; the role of women. Tipis: particular kinds of tipis; decorated tipis; tipis inrelation to death customs. No date given but probably January 1974, same as the others in this series.

Discussion of: Role of elders in setting young people on the right road ; Importance of breast-feeding and giving up alcohol ; Need for a tipi on each reserve, to be kept for prayer, pipe ceremonies and the counselling of the young.

Architecture Thesis (M.Arch.)--Dalhousie University, 2003.

Architecture Thesis (M.Arch.)--McGill University, 1994. Includes case studies of Chisasibi (Fort George), Mistissini, Nemaska, Waswanipi.

Agricultural Sciences Landscape Architecture Thesis (MLA)--University of British Columbia, 2001.

Architecture Thesis (M.Arch.)--Dalhousie University, 2006.

The Department of Transport station, with people, skidoos and wing of air plane in foreground; taken at Clyde, N.W.T. [NU].

Canadian Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--Trent University, 2021.

Commentary in regards to the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) on September 22, 2004, particularly the clichés, exclusion and stereotyping.

Interview includes recollections of school, working during World War II, farm life as a child and as a widow.