Social Life & Customs

An interview that describes some boyhood memories. The interviewee also describes two dances, the Give Away and Wolf Feast ceremonies.

An interview discussing the taking and interpretation of Treaty #7, and the establishment of the Blood Reserve.

Describes the playing pieces used in the game and method used for making them.

Author draws on historical manuscripts and ethnological studies of Cherokee spiritual and wellness practices; works to articulate the interaction between the healer, the patient, and the framework of cultural and spiritual beliefs around wellness and healing.

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

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Author discusses their experience of visiting the National Museum of the American Indian during its inaugural week.

Ceremony honours Keeseekoose Reserve chief.

The chief of Beaver Ranch Reserve discusses unsuccessful attempts to have Beaver Ranch and Tall Cree Reserves expanded.

Consists of an interview with Chief Martin Morigeau where he gives general reminiscences of his life, including an amusing prank that he played on a preacher.

Looks at intervention and prevention focusing on population and individual level risk and protective factors. Includes suggestions.

Consists of an interview with Mrs. Wadsworth, a Blood Indian woman, about child marriages.

Documentary shows life at boarding school, the city landscape and lifestyle in the Russian tundra. Overview of alternative education offered to tundra children in life skills with teacher Anna Nerkagi. Duration: 28:18.

Consists of an interview that describes various traditional clothing.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Manitoba, 1989.

Book review of: Chiricahua Apache Women and Children: Safekeepers of the Heritage by H. Henrietta Stockel.

Article attempts to examine some of the reasons the Chumash people elected to be baptized, the consequences for that choice, and the resistance (both overt and subversive) that they offered to Christian missionaries.

Celebrates holiday customs with a humourous rendition of the well known Christmas poem.

Author engages with the narrative surrounding Christopher Columbus and the sociocultural implications of that narrative in the USA.

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

Forms part of Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, v. 11 (p. [537]-733).

Interviews families of the Lil'wat Nation in British Columbia who have children with developmental disabilities in order to gain a better understanding of child rearing beliefs and practices.

An analysis of the "tripratate" structural design of Silko's novel and how it places the hoop dance ceremony at the heart of the story despite the ritual only appearing in the middle of the novel.

Book review of: Cis Dideen Kat - When Plumes Rise by Jo-Anne Fiske and Betty Patrick. Scroll down to page 99 to read book review.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 33, (pp351-422).

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 14, (pp155-291).

Consists of an interview where she gives a general account of reserve life. She gives a description of Indian games and tells of the establishment of the Gordon Reserve, Saskatchewan

Consists of an interview where she shares general reminiscences of her life.

Consists of an interview where Clarence Joe speaks of the conversion of the Sechelt Indians to Roman Catholicism and he discusses at various points the industry and initiative of the Sechelt Indians.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol 18, (pp287-390).

Discusses the role of reoccurring themes and metaphors in the traditional stories of the Yup’ik people by comparing two different narratives “The Boy Who Went to Live with the Seals” and “The Girl Who Returned from the Dead.”

Author uses the example of collecting stories from her mother over a period of three years to describe an Indigenous methodology for research that is rooted in relationality, seasonal progressions, and wholistic worldviews and that focuses on research through memory and story-telling.

Discusses the serious and religious aspects of clowns. Chapter 7 in the book: Teachings From the American Earth: Indian Religion and Philosophy edited by Dennis Tedlock and Barbara Tedlock.

Studies the history of aboriginal forest use.

Book review of: Coast Salish Essays by Wayne Suttles.

Book review of: Coast Salish Essays by Wayne Suttles.

Dances, clothes, winter ceremonies, kinship systems, rituals are some of the topics covered.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 31, (pp257-334).

Several interviews with elders of Cold Lake Reserve.

Diaries kept by Clah show the evolution of the colonial Tsimshian culture and his interactions with parts of the non-Native economy and the missionary promoters.

Authors examine colonial traumas—Indigenous separation from land, culture, and relations—which occur as a result of ongoing and neo-colonial practices, as a determinant of Indigenous peoples’ physical and mental health.

Article examines the representations of Comanche religious practice in ethnographic writings from the early 1800s into the 20th century. Discusses the portrayal of the Comanche as skeptics or as a people without a cohesive religion.

Author considers the way that worldviews are constructed; examines the way that humour and comedy contribute to the Anishinaabe worldview, and to the resilience of the Anishinaabe people.

Consists of an interview that is primarily general recollections of traditional lifestyle.

Consists of an interview about a creation myth and some healing practices of medicine men.

Consists of an interview where he shares a story of the origin of death. He also gives an account of healing practices.