Social Organization

Examines the findings from the 2006 Aboriginal People's Survey to identify factors related to health, chronic diseases, and diabetes.

Paper argues that in five decades hunting and gathering has diminished but economic development policies and funding have failed to develop a viable wage economy.

Article follows up on a small ethnographic survey conducted in 2011-2012; examines the ideas of cultural citizenship and social mobility as they are expressed by students from Greenland who are studying in Denmark.

Sociology and Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 2001.

Author examines and discusses the narrative of a civilization—the Moundbuilders of America—that inhabited the Mississippi River valley prior to contemporary Indigenous peoples.

Authors describes the Diné system of clans and kinship, and suggest that rooted as it is in an ethic of universal relatedness, it might hold solutions for dealing with environmental and political instability.

Examines the writings of Brigham Young to reconstruct some of the epidemiological events that affected Indigenous people in what is now Utah while was being colonized.

Analysis of post contact diseases and the effect on the Kutchin population.

Discusses Dene women's leadership, an area within academic literature that has had very little study.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--Lehigh University, 2008.

Interpreting ritual activity involving dogs and wolves coincided with increased warfare with Mississippians in the Middle Ohio Valley region.

Looks at changes in domestic composition, functions, networks, and cultural ideologies.

Includes correspondence and quotes from a range of public and private individuals including Hume, Frank Pedley, John Hines, church officials, a Report of Special Indian Committee (1908) on policies, the state of health, death, and education in industrial and residential schools.

Examines the effects of the tourism and mining industries on the northern Arizona ecosystem and suggests management strategies aimed at minimizing the impact on traditional way of life.

Sociology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alberta, 2004.

Editorial article discusses the need to for non-Indigenous legal systems to engage with and normalize the legal traditions of the First Nations in the Yukon.

Article examines communications between settlers in British Columbia and the United Kingdom highlighting the ways that settlers aligned themselves with metropolitan Europeans and disregarded local Indigenous and other racialized peoples in a way that reflected a broader politics of daily life that underpinned the settler colonial project.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 2004.

These selections from the Duck Lake Indian Agency records illustrate a pattern of negative government attitudes and policies of fiscal austerity towards First Nations peoples and communities. Introduction and commentary by J.R. Miller. Entire issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 36.

Author analyzes baptismal, burial, and census records from five missions in the San Francisco Bay area to explore the realities of demographic collapse among Indigenous communities during colonization.

Focuses on the Anishnaabe and changes they made in their negotiation tactics, away from a process dependant on ceremony, formal rhetoric and consensus decision-making, in order to remain on their land.

Presents the findings of research conducted in September of 2016 on the changing place of dogs in Kuujjaq, a community where Inuit and non-Inuit live together. Researchers found “that dogs in the community occupy a position that oscillates between appreciation and repulsion—a position shaped by cultural and community contexts.” Text in French.

Argues that the "optimum period" for the Cree of James Bay was when limited contact kept their way of life intact and that this period ended in 1914 when the area become less isolated because of the railway and other economic interests.

Data for study gathered from discussions and observations about hunting, travelling and living conditions in settlements.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 48, (pp1-90).

Examines current economic practices, the diversity lifestyles supported by various economic activities, traditional obligations and monetary calculation.

Examines the decision to create Shehatshit (also known as Sheshatshu) as a permanent settlement for nomadic Innu of Labrador, and the consequences of forcing peoples to abandon their traditional living patterns.

Agricultural Economics (M.Sc.)--University of Arizona, 1968.

Study compared the Iroquois and the Bemba to gain insight into the factors which influenced status and concluded that the high status of women among the Iroquois was due to economic responsibilities.

Introduction to journal issue which focuses on Indigenous nomadic pastoralists and the issues and myths they encounter. To access this article, scroll to page 4.

Editorial introduction to themed issue: " Death and Dying: Healing and Supporting Journeys."

Editorial gives a summary of the articles contained in this issue and advocates for greater social supports.

Brooks moved from eastern Canada to what is now Indian Head in the spring of 1882; went into partnership in with George P. Murray to form Murray and Brooks, General Merchants, 1883. In 1885 he sat on the jury that found Louis Riel Guilty of High Treason. Letters contain some commentary on local Indigenous peoples, events and settler-Indigenous and government-Indigenous relations. Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 104

Brooks moved from eastern Canada to what is now Indian Head in the spring of 1882; went into partnership in with George P. Murray to form Murray and Brooks, General Merchants, 1883. In 1885 he sat on the jury that found Louis Riel Guilty of High Treason. Letters contain some commentary on local Indigenous peoples, events and settler-Indigenous and government-Indigenous relations. Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 30

Brooks moved from eastern Canada to what is now Indian Head in the spring of 1882; went into partnership in with George P. Murray to form Murray and Brooks, General Merchants, 1883. In 1885 he sat on the jury that found Louis Riel Guilty of High Treason. Letters contain some commentary on local Indigenous peoples, events and settler-Indigenous and government-Indigenous relations. Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 67.

Atlantic Canada Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Saint Mary's University, 1999.

Family and Nutritional Sciences Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia, 1993.

Report includes the following papers: Report of the Director by J. W. Powell The Eskimo About Bering Strait by Edward William Nelson

Includes Remarks on Linguistic Ethnology: Introductory to the Report of Dr. A.F. Chamberlain on the Kootenay [Kootenai] Indians of South-Eastern British Columbia by Horatio Hale.

Examines a case study of ritual healing among the Tarahumara, or Rarámuri, in northern Mexico.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--McGill University, 2013.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--Tulane University, 2003.

Urban Development Thesis (MPl)--Ryerson University, 2016.

Examines how the two countries have chosen to approach the issue of rights and the implications for their indigenous minorities.

Description of the organization of a traditional camp ; description of the Ladies Handgame of the Assiniboine or Stoney.

Discusses transaction records between the French and peoples of the Western Great Lake including Ojibwa and Dakota regard for French technology.

Author discusses the Navajo ways of blending traditional practices, identities, and ways of being with contemporary mainstream social structures and lifestyles.

Authors examine the existing guidelines for building research relationships in Arctic communities; they note the current guidelines are action centered and suggest that researchers also need a series of skills, attitudes and personal attributes if they are to be successful in building community relationships.