Geography

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The Stock Cove Site: A Large Dorset Seal-Hunting Encampment on the Coast of Southeastern Newfoundland

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Christopher B. Wolff
Donald H. Holly Jr.
John C. Erwin

Tatiana Nomokonova
Lindsay Swinarton
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 56, no. 1, 2019, pp. 77-95
Description
Authors discuss artifacts and data collected from the Stock Cove site (CkAl-3); consider the implications—both historic and contemporary--of finding harp seal remains at the site. Additionally, offers some commentary as to the appropriateness of using historical biogeographic data to interpret pre-contact economies.
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The Stones Shall Cry Out: Consciousness, Rocks, and Indians

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
George Tinker
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 19, no. 2, Fall, 2004, pp. 105-125
Description
Osage perspective on the consciousness of rocks and trees and their ability to speak. Comparison of Western scientific thought with the relationship between Native Americans and nature.
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Storying Swí:lhcha: Place Making and Power at a Stó:lō Landmark

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sabina Trimble
BC Studies, no. 190, Histories of Settler Colonialism, Summer, 2016, pp. 39-66
Description
Looks at three types of place making stories about Swidhcha or Cultus Lake: original stories, trail stories, and boundary-making stories.
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Strangers Among Us

Alternate Title
McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series ; 10
E-Books
Author/Creator
David C. Woodman
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Surveying the International Boundary: The Journal of George M. Dawson, 1873

Articles » General
Author/Creator
George M. Dawson
Saskatchewan History, vol. 21, no. 1, Winter, 1968, pp. 1-23
Description
Diaries detail the experience of surveying the 49th parallel between the Souris Depot in Manitoba and Wood Mountain in what is now Saskatchewan. Describes the daily progress of the survey, wildlife sightings, topological features, interaction with Indigenous peoples of the plains, and prairie events including fires and blizzards. Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 1.
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Swiftly Moving Currents: American Indian History and the Changing Complexity of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Alternate Title
Guest Editor's Introduction: Swiftly Moving currents: American Indian History and the Changing Complexity of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ned Blackhawk
Ethnohistory, vol. 54, no. 4, Between Empires: Indians in the American West During the Age of Empire, Fall, 2007, pp. 583-589
Description
Introduction discusses imperial-indigenous relations in the American west.
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Teaching the Canadian Arctic Expedition

Articles » General
Author/Creator
David Gray
Canadian Issues, Teaching (in) the Canadian North, Winter, 2013, pp. 36-40
Description
Looks at the Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913-1918 as an educational tool for teaching science, geography, culture and history. To access article scroll to p. 36.
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Telemedicine in the British Antarctic Survey

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Iain C. Grant
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 63, no. 4, Special Issue: eHealth, 2004, pp. 356-364
Description
Looks at the evolution of telemedicine in the Antarctic.
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Terril Calder's Repercussions: Indigenizing the Civic Archive

Alternate Title
Brazil-Canada Knowledge Exchange Project: Developing Transnational Literacies ; August 2013
Indigenous Challenges and Opportunities in Canada and Brazil
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Jessica Jacobson-Konefall
Description
Presents review and critique of film. Duration: 18:51.
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Third World in the First: Development and Indigenous Peoples

Alternate Title
Third World in the First: Development & Indigenous Peoples
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Evelyn Peters
Canadian Geographer, vol. 41, no. 2, Summer, 1997, pp. 218-219
Description
Book review of: Third World in the First: Development and Indigenous Peoples by Elspeth Young.
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Thirty-Third Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1911-1912

E-Books
Author/Creator
F. W. Hodge
Description
Report includes the following papers: Report of the Ethnologist-in-Charge by F. W. Hodge Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region by Melvin Randolph Gilmore Preliminary Account of the Antiquities of the Region between the Mancos and La Plata Rivers in Southwestern Colorado by Earl H. Morris Designs on Prehistoric Hopi Pottery by Jesse Walter Fewkes The Hawaiian Romance of Laieikawai by Martha Warren Beckwith
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This Elusive Land: Women and the Canadian Environment

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Anna J. Willow
American Review of Canadian Studies, vol. 36, no. 1, Spring, 2006, pp. 149-151
Description
Book review of: This Elusive Land: Women and the Canadian Environment edited by Melody Hessing, Rebecca Raglon, Catriona Sandilands.
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This Land

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Dianne Whelan
Jeremy Mendes
Description
Interactive snowmobile road trip across 2,000 inhospitable kilometers of Northern Canada by filmmaker Dianne Whelan. Accompanying material: This Land: Study Guide. Duration: 35:00.
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This Land: Study Guide

Documents & Presentations
Description
Guide to accompany film, This Land. Recommended for 12 years and up. Provides several discussion questions for use based on specific subject areas and curriculum.
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