Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 15, no. 1, Spring, 2000, pp. 71-89
Description
Discusses how and why museums have focused on Indigenous collections and displays which assign certain stereotypes and misrepresentations of Native American people.
Report - 1887 on the North-Western Tribes of Canada
Report on the Blackfoot Tribes
E-Books
Author/Creator
Horatio Hale
Edward Francis Wilson
Description
Designed to be a record of characteristics and condition of First Nations people prior to intermarriage, dispersion, or contact with Europeans. An attempt to retain knowledge regarding the arts, customs and beliefs.
30th Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1908-1909
E-Books
Author/Creator
W. H. Holmes
Description
Report includes the following papers:
Report of the Chief by W. H. Holmes
Ethnobotany of the Zuñi Indians by Matilda Coxe Stevenson
An Inquiry Into the Animism, and Folk-lore of the Guiana Indians by Walter E. Roth
List of Publications of the Bureau of American Ethnology
Report includes the following papers:
Report of the Ethnologist-in-Charge by F. W. Hodge
An Introductory Study of the Arts, Crafts, and Customs of the Guiana Indians by Walter Edmund Roth
Report includes the following papers:
Report of the Ethnologist-in-Charge by F. W. Hodge
A Prehistoric Island Culture Area of America by J. Walter Fewkes
Report includes the following papers:
Report of the Ethnologist-in-Charge by F. W. Hodge
Seneca Fiction, Legends, and Myths; collected by Jeremiah Curtin and J. N. B. Hewitt; edited by J. N. B. Hewitt
Journal of American Folklore, vol. 75, no. 298, October-December 1962, pp. 283-300
Description
Focuses on the Earth-grasper myth or Woman who fell from the Sky, one of the creation stories common to the nations of the Haudenosaunee confederacy and considers the themes and motifs contained therein as a lens for studying the cultures of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca peoples.
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, vol. 22, no. 1, Spring, 2005, pp. 103-120
Description
Defining health in terms of isolation, body types and disease susceptibility contribute to rationale for providing health services that were intended to integrate/assimilate northerners.
Libraries without Borders: Navigating towards Global Understanding
World Library and Information Congress ; 74th, 2008
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Lucy Fowler Williams
David McKnight
Description
A look at the Louis Shotridge collection; Louis Shotridge, also known as Stoowukháa (c. 1882-1937), was from the Tlingit people of Southeast Alaska and worked for the Penn Museum as Assistant Curator from 1915-1932. This paper also discusses decisions made concerning the information architecture and metadata standards used in developing the website.
Revisits the politics and controversy surrounding a controversial science initiative program called Man: A Course of Study (MACOS) which attempted tof teach American children what it was to be human.
Duration: 55:00.
Aboriginal History, vol. 9, no. 1, 1985, pp. 53-80
Description
Argues that the field of linguistic culture history in Aboriginal Australia can contribute greatly to the knowledge of Aboriginal culture, past and present.
Tipahamatoowin or Treaty Four?: Speculations on Alternate Texts
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John S. Milloy
Native Studies Review, vol. 18, no. 1, 2009, pp. 91-111
Description
Looks at the two different narratives regarding the negotiations of Treaty 4, the differing cultural frameworks and why, for the Cree and Saulteaux people, the treaty settlement remains unfinished business.