Social Life & Customs

Describes the land, rivers, inlets, culture, legends, ceremonies and more of the islands.

Webcast presentation from the Patterns of Health and Wellbeing Symposium on community-based programs to promote wellbeing. Duration: 31:14.

Māori Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massey University, 2006.

Book review of: The Ojibwa of Western Canada: 1780-1870 by Laura Peers.

Interviewee gives a general account of her life.

Reviews a 1911 study, one of the last ethnographies of a Northern Plain society and then examines change and renewal in the Omaha peoples.

Appendix A and B from Report on the Queen Charlotte Islands published as part of the Geologic Survey of Canada.

Examines the classification of the tribes between the Behring's Straits and the Columbia River and the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Ocean.

Creative piece which imagines what Two Treatises of Civil Government would look like if it had been written by the Cherokee Rabbit Trickster, Jisdu.

Describes some of the dances, feasts and ceremonies of the Onondaga people.

Book review of: Ook-Pik by William G. Crisp, with drawings by Jean Crisp.

Author examines the work of the anthropologist Charles Hudson, discussed his writings about the spiritual practices of the Southeastern Indigenous peoples in the United States generally, and about those of the Cherokee people specifically.

Reports alcohol-related social norms came from the Laestadian (Lutheran) revival movement.

Book review of: The Origin of the Wolf Ritual: The Whaling Indians, West Coast Legends and Stories by Edward Sapir. Scroll down to page 127 to read review.

Looks at the concept of dreams and the importance of using local Indigenous dreaming customs when analyzing the practices.

Documentary on the Cree Nation of Northern Saskatchewan and the Village of Cumberland House. Duration: 59:43.

Describes a project undertaken by the St. Laurent Shrine Committee, with the help of Canada North Environmental Services, in 2013 to complete a detailed recording of all marked and unmarked graves located in Our Lady of Lourdes Cemetery in the Métis community of St. Laurrent. Entire Issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 20.

Discusses current work being undertaken in the Nyikina community to ensure language, traditional laws, and customs are passed on to future generations.

Literary criticism article that examines the ways that themes of isolation, disconnection from community, and individual/cultural identity are explored in Welch’s novel.

Anthropology and Sociology Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia, 1990.

Consists of an interview that describes how the paints are gathered and prepared as well as the uses of the different paints.

Nursing Thesis (MSN)--University of British Columbia (Okanagan), 2019.

Book review of: Part of the Land, Part of the Water by Catherine McClellan with Lucie Birckel, Robert Bringhurst, James Fall, Carol McCarthy, Janice Sheppard. Scroll down to page 81 to read review.

This 83-year old gentleman talks about work as trapper, farmer, builder, carpenter; a serious accident at High Prairie; work as councillor on the Drift Pile River Reserve and developments on that reserve; and about relinquishing treaty status.

Discusses different characteristics of Clowns in different tribes from the Oglala and Lakota to the Salish and Hopis and the importance of the Clowns to the community spirit.

Book review of: Patterns of Activity-Induced Pathology in Canadian Inuit Population by Charles F. Merbs.

Part of: University of California Publications in Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 29, no. 4 (pp253-423).

Consulting ethnographic literature, Pawnee traditions and historical records reveal a complex heritage where funeral preparations varied according to rank.

Examples of activities that engage students in understanding the systemic structure of colonization.

Overview of Heritage Conservation Branch project and research results from two prehistoric archaeological sites.

Presents interesting short articles about people, places and events in 1993.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.6.

Describes the customs surrounding the dead in Australian Aboriginal culture.

Documents life of the Native people in northern British Columbia. "Archival film reflects the social and cultural values and beliefs prevalent at the time of production." Durations: 21:00.

Author critiques the theory presented in Basso’s book, Wisdom sits in Places, which argues that the voice of a place is nothing more than the projection of human imagination; article contextualize the critique in the within Apache cultural and spiritual practice.

Looks at the five pillars as tools and services to aid with the rebuilding of First Nations.

Book review of: The Peoples of Siberia edited by M. G. Levin and L. P. Potapov.

Using anthropological and colonial sources presents an alternative way of thinking about the tribe's motivations and activities in the conflict with New England colonists.

Examines the physical, social and spiritual power produced by the dancers as they perform specific choreographic styles.

Looks at traditional language and practices of marriage rules in southeast Queensland from Brisbane north to Hervey Bay and the community of Cherboug.

Focuses on use of names in a Tsuu T'ina (formerly referred to as Sarcee) community near Calgary, in the summer of 1922.