Social Organization

Sources are divided by two areas, "Chipewyan" (Northern Saskatchewan and Manitoba, North West Territories) and British Columbia, Alberta, Yukon and Northwest Territories, grouped together. Each area is then divided into a social and cultural section and a language section. Bibliography includes citations from the Hearne Bibliography. The article is current as of 1998.

Law Thesis (D.Jur.)--York University, 2001.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--McGill University, 1999.

Argues data collected from the late 18th through early 20th century shows correlation between spatial and social organization of households and presents evidence of changes in subsistence economics.

Focuses on the peoples of the northern area of the Northwest Coast including Alaska, Washington, Oregon and British Columbia. Chapter from Volume 2 of Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology: Health and Illness in the World's Cultures edited by Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember.

Collection of papers from the Aboriginal Policy Research Conference addressing some issues and needs faced by communities in urban areas.

Examines the present day interest in Native American life and culture.

Reprinted from The Journal of American Folklore, vol. 1, no. 2, July-September, 1888.

Forms part of Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, v.31 (p.281-345).

American Indian Studies Thesis (M.A.)--The University of Arizona, 1997.

Book review of: The Nunamiut Eskimosby Nicholas J. Gubser, with a foreword by George Peter Murdock.

Presentation of the political, symbolic and geographical reasons for establishing Nunavut; formally established within the Northwest Territories, April 1, 1999.

Defines a city’s “primacy” as having three factors: a large population in comparison to other cities in the country, economic preeminence, and symbolic of a national cultural identity and assesses how well Nuuk fulfills those criteria.

Looks at the promotion of home-building programs on reservations, from the white imagination to the realities of tribal life, by examining instances of attempted domestic reform.

Uses census data (collected every 10 years) and the American Community Survey, to compare occupational structures and stratifications in the two groups.

Discusses different cultural models of land and resource ownership by the Salishan, the Nuu-Chah-Nulth, Kwakwaka'waka, Haida, Nisga'a and additional northwest coast peoples.

Author draws on different interviews he has conducted with Diné (Navajo) to discuss metaphors used by elders to make traditional values accessible to contemporary youth.

Author describes their experience as a member of the Natives Studies faculty at an American University; articulates different conflicts and institutional practices that led to their leaving the faculty.

Comments on the debilitating aspects of colonialism and how Aboriginal people can combat racism effectively by working together to empower each other as a cultural group.

Explores how social control is maintained in Muskrat Dam First Nation through holistic and traditional methods.

Article discusses the differences between the National Program of Historical Commemoration and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in perceptions of and motivations for commemorative monuments. Notes the changes in policy necessary to make Survivor-oriented commemoration possible.

Book review of: On the Edge of Empire by Adele Perry.

From the Journal of the Anthropological Institute vol. 30, July - December 1990 at pages 263 to 277?.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Texas A & M University, 2005.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alberta, 1999.

Book review of: One West, Two Myths edited by Carol Higham and Robert Thacker; book deals with the impact of the 49th parallel on the relations between and among First Nations and governments.

Describes the OAS meeting of October, 1999 that provided for the participation and feedback on the Draft, of any citizen group including Indigenous representatives.

Examines traditional views on sex roles in subsistence behaviour and takes a fresh look at the archaeological and ethnographic evidence.

Extract from the book, Stone-Age Economics by Marshall Sahlins in which he argues that in the hunter-gathererer society, with few material wants and their needs met, were not just subsisting but could be considered affluent.

Peace and Conflict Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Manitoba, 2013.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, 2010.

Argues that the literature presents an anticapitalist perspective and looks at issues of work and alienation in the larger context of genocide by colonization.

Book review of: Other Words by Jace Weaver. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Reveals the very slow progress of the Federated Women's Institute of Canada (FWIC) in establishing itself in the Yukon and Northwest Territories.

Sociology and Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Simon Fraser University, 2008.

This literary criticism article examines the intersections and lasting consequences of settler colonialism and the chattel enslavement of African people on North American lands, cultures and identities in the context of the novel.

Maori Studies (M.A.)--Victoria University of Wellington, 2014.

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

Includes two groups: Chugach Eskimos of Prince William Sound and the Kodiak Eskimos of Kodiak Island and adjacent islands. Digitized copy of typescript is part of the unpublished reference work on the Northern Arctic and subarctic regions. Project ran from 1947-1951.

Study examined dwelling/settlement patterns during cycles of population increase and decrease in Dorset and pre-Dorset periods.

Includes American slavery, punishment of slaves in Lower Canada, legal position of Canadian slaves, kidnapping of individuals, some commentary Huron Treaty of 1764 in relation to slavery. From Proceedings of the Canadian Institute, New Series, vol. 1, pt. 1, no. 1, 1897.

Provides a review of the culturally important relationship the Mi'kmaq share with the American eel, including for food, ceremonial practices, medicinal purposes, and traditional relations of reciprocity.

Examines child-rearing customs and child-behavior issues in Sami and Norwegian populations in northern Norway.