Oral History

Looks at the Ahousat, a Central Nootkan group and the establishment of a Ahousat chieftainship.

Examines the forced integration and educational assimilation of the Navajo people which gave rise to the culture of the code talker program.

Explains how Sámi use the cultural centres for documentation and preservation of language and heritage.

Reprint of 1999 edition, with a new preface.

Authors use discourse analysis to engage with the online response to an essay they had coauthored previously; and provide criticism of social narratives that have erased the history of Indigenous peoples prior to the founding of Australia.

Book review of: When Our Words Return edited by Phyllis Morrow and William Schneider.

Three separate accounts of visionary foreshadowing during tumultuous times in Cherokee life.

Oral traditions in myth and ceremony examined for evidence of geological events in the Pacific northwest during the Holocene era.

Examines how the establishment of air force installations affected Inuit during the first two decades of the Cold War.

Book review of: When the Wolf Came by Mary Jane Warde.

Canadian Heritage Development Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Trent University, 1998.

Book review of Where Happiness Dwells by Robin Ridington and Jillian Ridington. Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review, scroll to p. 215.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2002.

Looks at the Innu Community of Pessamit's declarations of the Uamashtakan portage trail as a heritage project in response to the lack of weight that oral and cultural history is given during land claims negotiations under the Comprehensive Land Claims Policy.

First Nations Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Northern British Columbia, 2007.

Book review of: The White Man's Gonna Getcha by Toby Morantz.

Describes an account involving a role reversal between Indians and non-Indians on the Rosebud reservation in South Dakota in 1969.

Explores evidence that suggests that the Teme-Augama Anishnabai did not sign the Robinson Huron Treaty of 1850 and discusses the legal implications .

Authors re-examine the discourse surrounding the life and death of the Kiowa leader Satanta; discuss how even contemporary perceptions of Indigenous historical figures are rooted in colonial narratives of conquest which sought to diminish the humanity of Indigenous peoples and extinguish Indigenous title in favour of white settler expansion.

Book review of: Who Lived in This House? by A. McFadyen Clark.

Book review of: Who Lived In This House? by A. McFadyen Clark.

Comments on the lack of historical resources, what constitutes legal ownership and problems of access.

Critical analysis of The Surrounded, by D'Arcy McNickle, with emphasis on cultural and racial identity.

Author presents evidence which suggests that there were not just nine, but ten people killed at Frog Lake on April 2 1885. Entire issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 13.

Suggests that oral sources should be thought of as oral traditions and not as oral histories.

Brief discussion of the play Battles of Fire and Water by Dave Hunsaker. The playwright used oral and written histories about battles (in 1802 and 1804) fought by Russians and the Tlingits over land, as the basis for the play.

Highlights the Wichita tribal migration oral history as recorded by Indian Agent Dr. John Sibley in the early nineteenth century.

A Sarcee legend.

Evaluation of Dr. Sebastien Malette and Guilliaume Marcotte's article and testimony regarding Marie-Louise Riel being Louis Riel's aunt. The two were expert witnesses in two courts cases regarding the claim of a historical Métis community in eastern Canada.

An interview with Wilfred and Harriet Chocan about the joys and challenges in their lives from childbirth to caring for the elderly and death.

William Beaver, a 41-year-old councillor at Trout Lake, complains that members of the Bigstone band who live away from Wabasca receive no help from the band, and stresses the need for a reserve in the Trout Lake area, with sports facilities.

General discussion about the Walpole Island Reserve.

Mr. Harding describes his impressions of Malcolm Norris and the two groups in which they met.

Mrs. Trudeau talks about being adopted and the schooling she received as a child. Mr. Trudeau talks about growing up on the farm, and later working in the lumber and fishing industries. Interpreter : Ernest Debassigae ; transcriber : Joanne Greenwood.

William and Helen Trudeau discuss the traditional ways of gathering, preserving and storing food. They also talk about the origins of some traditional stories. Interpreter : E. Debassigae ; transcribed by J. Greenwood.

William Trudeau talks about the origins of his family. Interpreter : E. Debassigae ; transcriber : J. Greenwood.

Negotiations of Treaty #8 regarding promises made, and requests for reserve land at Fort MacKay.

William Okeymaw was 12 years old at the time when he attended the Treaty #8 negotiations.He describes the negotiations and his understanding of the promises made; the role of the missionaries; talks of some of the Indian agents; and the abundance of buffalo in Lesser Slave Lake area at one time.

William Okeymaw attended the signing of Treaty 8 when he was 12 years old. He talks about: signing of treaty; treaty promises; establishment of reserves around Lesser Slave Lake; and expansion of these reserves as population grew; and the present need for further expansion.

Interviewee talks about the signing of Treaty #8, the establishment of Wood Buffalo National Park, and requests for a reserve at Garden River.

Account of the sale of Saddle Lake Reserve lands.

Bill Knox was a mining prospector who hired Jim Brady to assist him. He talks about Brady's work and theories relating to his disappearance.

Deals with a farming operation on Walpole Island.

Includes an account of the signing of Treaty #7; allocation of lands;leasing land to Mormons; trust fund.

General account of his life. No date given, probably in the 1970's.

This 64 year old resident of Beaver Ranch Reserve gives his understanding of the treaty promises.