Social Life & Customs

Focuses on the historical role of Métis women and revitalization of their culture.

Graduate Counselling Psychology Program Thesis (M.A.)--Trinity Western University, 2005.

Article uses the Work 2 Give program—which gives incarcerated men the opportunity to create goods and harvest for the Tŝilhqot’in First Nation—as a case study to examine the “healing potential of the arts and therapeutic craft in BC prisons.”

Eight residents reflect on their lives in the community. Information was gathered through a series of conversational interviews.

Elders present songs and prayers with discussion about the loss of traditions and values, evils of alcohol, role of elders, etc. Also stories of adventures in intertribal warfare ; a story of a man who married a thunderwoman.

Examines and compares Native American religions to those of the rest of the world.

Website includes links to history, sacred sites, treaties, lifestyle, language and literature, ancestors, missions, and genealogy.

Review of website, Wyandot Nation of Kansas created by the Wyandot Nation of Kansas.

Book review of Xweliqwiya by Rena Point Bolton and Richard Daly. Entire book review section on one PDF. To access this review scroll to p. 156.

Looks at Alexander Henry's account of a year spent living as an Indian with the Wawatam family.

Analysis of photographs shows how the project's intent changed over time from stylistic and thematic unity to changes in aesthetic and political attitude.

Paper describes the methodology use by the author in gathering narratives from 15 Haudenosaunee Grandmothers from the Six Nations community for a research study; discusses and centers Indigenous teachings, worldviews, and ways of knowing as a research practice.

Shows how the Cultural Planning Policy has impacted adoption of Aboriginal children into non-native families.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 1997

Forms part of Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, v. 13 (p. [1]-133).

Book review of Yupik Transitions by Igor Krupnik and Michael Chlenov.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 35, (pp15-22).

Looks at the Yorok tribe's complex system of social stratification through their traditional social customs and culture.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 35, (pp1-14).

Book review of: Yuungnaqpiallerput by Ann Fienup-Riordan.

Heritage Edition.

Discusses how declarations as a sovereign nation and using established rules of customary international law, will with help the tribe in the return of its cultural property

A description of the Zuni Pueblo's yearly dramatic theatrical performances that unites the Zuni socially, economically, politically and religiously.