Social Life & Customs

Article examines the ways that William Johnson conducted himself in relation to the Mohawk nation and how his adoption of Mohawk cultural practices allowed him success in his political dealings and negotiations with them.

Native Studies Thesis (M.A.)--The University of Manitoba, 2003.

Discussion of the English equivalent of a number of Indian words. Describes how power may be acquired.

Gives his understanding of Treaty #6.

Describes the theory of Culture Care to assess, understand and plan care for an aphasic Navajo male who followed traditional ways.

Introduction and archival photographs from various collections.

Looks at several photographers and their work: Gentile, Dally, the Maynards, Dossetter, Boas and Hastings.

Interview of Mr. Harper that includes stories about the Lousy Ones and Scar Face.

Pierre Vandale was born in Carlton, Saskatchewan. He was treated in a sanatorium for tuberculosis but on recovery worked at farming and woodcutting. He talks about his children's education and his lack of schooling and he shares what his grandfather told him about the Riel Rebellion of 1885, the Metis and World War I and II.

Comments on Odawa traditionalists efforts to overcome socio-religious marginalization through engaging in traditional behaviours and values.

Reflects on colonial traditions of "imagined" history or the myth of the frontier in Williams Lake, British Columbia.

Explores the relationship between Native Americans and the land.

Forms part of Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, v. 37 (p.155-316).

Book review of: The Plains Cree: An Ethnographic, Historical and Comparative Study by David G. Mandelbaum.

Looks at historical information on ceremonial clowns, individual contraries, Reverse Reaction Warriors and the Ceremonial Fool of the Mandan.

Online exhibition of artifacts from the contact-traditional period 1770 to 1948. Includes bibliography.

Examines symbolic and archetypal features of stories.

Literary criticism article which discusses the poet’s use of different parts of language and sentence structures to disrupt the flow of the poetry forcing the reader to attend to ethical issues discussed in the text.

Forms part of Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, v.11 (p.475-542).

Part of: University of California in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol.12, (pp443-465).

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, v. 19, (pp149-405).

Looks at the culture of the Straits tribes, contact with the Europeans from 1790 and focuses on subsistence, government, religion and marriage of the Lummi. Scroll down to page 29 to read article.

Examines the changes to Indigenous religiously ideology due to subordination by European cultures that value a single deity and patriarchal views.

Looks at the Kwakwaka'wakw potlatch participants' perpspectives and Nez Perce dancers' roles and experience and finds commonalities amid the differences.

Visual Arts Thesis (M.A.)--Texas Woman's University, 1999.

Book review of: The Potlatch Papers by Christopher Bracken. Hamatsa by Jim Dowell. To access this review, scroll to page 87.

Book review of: The Power of Place, The Problem of Time by Keith Thor Carlson.

Interdisciplinary Studies and American Indian Peace Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--Union Institute and University, 2002.

Author examines the different worldviews and practices surrounding religion and spirituality that are and were held by Christian Europeans and the Powhatan in the early 1600’s, notes the points of divergence and potential conflict between the two forms of spirituality.

Book review of: Powwow edited by Clyde Ellis, Luke Eric Lassiter and Gary H. Dunham.

Powwow basics, protocols, and frequently asked questions.

Study indicates Minnesota and western Wisconsin powwows have underlying unifying aspects, where differences and diversity are also negotiated.

Sociology Thesis (Ph.D.)--South Dakota State University, 2002.

Discusses the social and spiritual power of traditional and contemporary dance.

Reflects on traditional powwows which celebrate cultural generosity and bonding.

Contends that there are parallels between the Aboriginal philosophy of balancing the world as it is, and maintaining traditions, and the Western concept of pragmatism. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Examines impact of epidemic and suggests high death rate was not the result of biological invasion but of poor living conditions, poor nutrition and lack of access to medical care.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1998.

Introductory article to a special issue devoted to the Repatriation of American Indian Remains.

Discusses consequences affecting the way of life caused by the construction of a Radar Base.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2014.

Book review of: The Price of a Gift: A Lakota Healer's Story by Gerald Mohatt and Joseph Eagle Elk.

Book review of: The Price of a Gift by Gerald Mohatt and Joseph Eagle Elk.

An explanation of the Kwakiutl potlatch as cultural commerce and how items are exchanged.

Looks at the districts of Ri Bhoi and Mawbuh. To access this article, scroll to page 45.