Social Life & Customs

Recommends increasing studies on population size, trends and vital statistics, way of life and technological change, economic change, resettlement, health service, and Christianity.

Presents some ideas from the author's dissertation, which stresses the importance of relationships and the merging of "formal" and Indigenous knowledge systems.

Author examines the writings and compares the careers of two missionaries working to convert Indigenous peoples in North America; focuses on the missionaries’ engagement with the elders, storytellers and culture of the nations.

Examines traditional Native American healing and ceremonial psychoactive agents and how colonization has contributed to substance abuse.

Psychology Thesis (M.A.)--Regis University, 2013.

Literary Criticism Article in which the author explores the ways which Indigenous storytelling and the worldview it conveys have affected her scholarship and her individual understanding and experience of the world.

Discusses government's strategy for environmental conservation and protection of the land by evicting pastoralists from grazing lands. Recent cases are described. To access this article, scroll down to page 22.

Consists of an interview with Watceu, an old man of the Pasqua reserve, who briefly discusses certain marriage taboos.

Study examines the priorities that Indigenous people living in remote communities in Australia have for defining their own well-being and how they rank those priorities in their own understandings of health.

Discusses the importance of potatoes and how Indigenous farmers strengthen local economies and wellbeing based on cultural traditions and biological diversity.

Consists of an interview where she gives an account of a wolf killing the pet dog when she was a child.

Paper presented at the Creative World Justice and Arts Festival, Mission, B.C. August 12, 2011

Authors examine rebirth accounts, the commentary of elders, and a varied of socio-cultural circumstances to explore the relationships between Yukaghir reincarnation cosmology and current cultural resurgence, historic contexts, kinship and identity recognition—both on a personal and a cultural level.

Book review of: Ethnology of the Ungava District, Hudson Bay Territory by Lucien M. Turner, with an introduction by Stephen Loring. Review in French. Book is reprint of paper which originally appeared in the Eleventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, published in 1894.

Book review of: Looking Both Ways edited by Aron L. Crowell, Amy F. Steffian and Gordon L. Pullar. Review in French.

Authors note that the current drug overdose crisis disproportionately affects Indigenous people as a result of a legacy of colonialism, racism and intergenerational trauma; argue that reconciliation with First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples must include dismantling structural conditions which produce drug-related harms, and that current harm-reduction models must integrate Indigenous cultural values.

Paper presented the the Tri-University Annual Graduate History Conference Waterloo, Ontario. Looks at death in 1907 of young child and then ensuing crisis in community-school relations.

Examines community efforts to revive cultural practices, reclaim knowledge, and get back cultural objects, specifically involving the potlatch system. Scroll to page 51

An "excerpt from Rupert Ross's discussion paper, Surfing the Flux: Exploring the Roots of the Aboriginal Healing Perspective (Draft, March 1994)." Note: This is a sample article from the publication. Subscriptions are available from the Native Law Centre.

Practicum for Master of Landscape Architecture (M.A)-University of Manitoba, 2020.

Examines the way in which Europeans reacted to a variety of Native social customs.

Discussion on creating an appropriate library collection of resources and works reflective of Aboriginal women's cultural diversity and their cumulative life experiences.

Compares Western permaculture theory and methods to the agroforestry-based food cultivation practices of the Indigenous people of the Peruvian Upper Amazon.

Authors discuss and provide examples of environmental repossession - the social, economic, and cultural processes Indigenous people are engaging in to reconnect with their traditional lands and territories, to assert their rights as Indigenous people and to improve their own well-being.

Discusses Haudenosaunee customary law and how legislation and residential schools disrupted traditional practices.

Links to a video that describes the programming which creates opportunities for families to participate in ceremonial and land-based ways of knowing and healing. Rekindling the Sacred Fire... Duration: 21:19

Using the conceptual framework developed by La Donna Harris and Jaqueline Wasilewski and the site of Réaume’s Leaf River Post, the author looks at foodways to show the relationships between the Ojibwe and the fur traders. This work was in response to traditional archaeology that validates colonialism.

Uses the Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure (MEIM) to measure ethnic identity in 945 adolescents.

Article provides an introduction to the special issue, includes a summary of the papers included and commentary on the reoccurring themes including links between religion and material culture, diversity of Indigenous perspectives, and the connections between worldview, land use, and geomorphology (changes in the natural world resulting from human use).

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol.4, (pp319-356).

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 8, (pp271-358).

Jackie "La-Sah" Timothy, master carver talks about the culture of the Sliammon people who live along the coast of British Columbia.

Article examines the protocols and practices surrounding knowledge acquisition and transmission in a Lummi (Coast Salish) community and considers how different understanding and beliefs around knowledge can create distrust.

Studies the culture of the Stlatlumh tribe of the Salish from the interior of British Columbia

Part of the 1888 Report on the North-Western Tribes of Canada.

Documentary on expedition to salvage totem poles from a deserted Haida village on Anthony Island. Includes synopsis. Duration: 27:06.

Three considerations: should research be conducted?, how does perspective affect research, and need for inclusion of ethical research principles.

Tries to isolate and look at Aboriginal spirituality and its relationship with resilience.

Examines how American Indian elders have been able to adapt and overcome adversities to achieve well-being.