Social Life & Customs

Looks at the challenges of incorporating Aboriginal spirituality into the helping process, and examines how to explore and integrate spirituality with individuals, families and communities.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 13, (pp235-258).

Book review of: Geebungs and Snake Whistles by the Wreck Bay Community and Cath Renwick. Article located by scrolling to page 131.

Event focused on knowledge transmission and traditional healing through the context language, culture, traditional values, medicine and spiritual beliefs.

Looks at Arctic Indigenous peoples whose lifestyles no longer are tied to nature. To access this article, scroll down to page 52.

Focuses on how Coast Tsimshian were viewed by missionaries, government officials and traders and geographical settings.

Discusses Historia by Olaus Magnus and Lapponia by Johannes Schefferus which both contain themes of the Sami people, their way of life, skills, and magical powers.

Consists of an interview with George First Rider about his father, who was called Dog Child. He gives an account of how his father got his name and also gives an account of his father's riding escapades. He tells the story of powers given to Dog Child by the bears, the eagles and the ghosts as well as giving examples of Dog Child's healing powers and his role in the Horn Society.

Consists of an interview with George First Rider where he talks about his childhood and lack of schooling, his development of horsemanship, his membership in holy societies and his alcoholism.

Interviewee was 6 years old at signing of Treaty 8. He describes the establishment of reserves around Lesser Slave Lake; and the need for more reserve land.

Understanding of treaty promises; distribution of food, ammunition, etc. in earlier times; interesting accounts of home-made agricultural equipment (aswell as that supplied by Dept. of Indian Affairs).

Literary criticism article in which the author explores Vizenor’s use of trickster tropes and transnational narrative to explore different expressions of Indigenous identity and how it adapts to and is affected by sites solidarity and sovereignty.

Consists of an interview that tells the story of the origin of the Ghost Dance as well as the story of the acquisition of the Shaggy Pipe.

Author discusses the ways ghost are a part of the narrative in the films of Wanuri Kahiu and Georgina Lightning in cultural context; examines the variable roles that ghost can play (sacred ancestor – malevolent trickster) and the way that characters respond to their presence and actions.

Dene perspectives on tragedy and a value system that includes over sized and mythical creatures.

Billy Wapass Jr. presents his family's version of the ancient legend that depicts the origin of the Hand Games.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.13.

Describes understandings of how gift giving was interpreted diplomatically, socially and economically by both Native Americans and Europeans.

Folklore and Ethnomusicology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2001.

Webcast of Global Encounters Initiative Symposium called Itineraries of Exchange: Cultural Contact in a Global Frame held at the University of British Columbia, March 4-6, 2010. Panel discussion begins at 36:41. Duration: 2:24:18.

Comments on the relationship between anthropologist, Franz Boas, and the Kwakwaka'wakw people and their influence on his concept of culture.

Creative nonfiction piece combines prose and poetry in a meditation on the concepts of home, belonging, and returning home.

Study results indicate a deep sense of reciprocity underscoring all human thought and action in the Cherokee sense of being.

Examines the conflicted history and cultural appropriation of the potlatch, and the different objectives used for the festival.

Summarizes issues most problematic with territories of the Amazonian Indigenous peoples in the Andean area. To access this article, scroll to page 8.

Lesson plan.

Focuses on oral traditions within families and presents a story of a Dakota family's struggles during their removal following the 1862 United States Dakota Conflict in Minnesota.

Book review of: Grass Dance of Spirit Lake Dakota by Louis Garcia with Mark Diedrich; illustrated by David Sager, forward by Raymond J. Demallie.

An oral story passed down to the author about a cleansing story in modern day Burney Falls in Shasta County.

Focuses on Greenlanders studying in Denmark and how they are harassed for being "half-Danes". To access this article, scroll down to page 54.

Discusses the significance of tobacco in the Blackfoot culture.

Describes the historic and shifting family and kinship structures of the Muscogulge or Creek people highlighting practices of marriage/divorce, gender roles, and division of labour.

Discussion of the specific principles and guidelines that are the foundation of an Indigenous paradigm.

Publication is meant for teachers wanting to incorporate elders' teachings into their classroom.

Author shares her personal narrative of cultural resilience and resurgence; discusses family history in the context of government prohibition of cultural and religious practices, and describes the cultural reclamation and language learning that has taken place since that prohibition ended.

Looks at architecture of the houses and carving styles on totem poles in the villages of Howkan, Hydaburg, Sukkwan and Kygani. Part 2: Duration: 31:06. Access to Part 1.

Discusses the architecture of houses and design style of totem Poles in the villages of Skidegate, Xaina, Skedans, Tanu, Skungwai and Chaatl Haida. Part 1 duration: 25:08. Part 2 duration: 32:08.

Focuses on the messages underlying public speeches by examining use of rhetorical devices, structure of speeches and audience interpretation.

Online exhibit of the history of Haida body art and designs. Includes pictures and drawings of tattoos.

Looks at the Haidas living on the Queen Charlotte Islands.