Oral History

Paper produced as part of the Community Governance Project at University of Victoria. Includes sources, analysis, and recommendations for future initiatives.

8 p. list of Band histories on file, compiled in August 1983. Tape number IH-345, transcript disc 67.This is a list of bibliographical material and cannot be indexed.

Consists of observations and an interview with the informant Old Man about some traditional customs and lifestyle in the area.*No index terms provided.

Consists of an interview with Bill Meawasige where he gives a general account of his life.

Bill Wilson was born in Lac La Biche, Alberta in 1934 and raised by Indian people west of Calgary. His father was 3/4 Sioux from the U.S. but his parents broke up when he was little. He discusses his negative attitude toward the RCMP.

Interviewee recounts stories told to him by his father about the signing of Treaty #8;denial of Indian requests for reserve; and traditional lifestyle.

A brief account of the treaty negotiations at Fort MacKay and of the subsequent failure to obtain a reserve at Peace Point.

Education Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 2001.

Essay studies the last Grand Chief and great leader of the British Columiba Fraser Canyon People.

Archaeology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Calgary, 2001.

Book review of: Bitter Water edited and translated by Malcolm D. Benally. Scroll to page 118 to read article.

Consists of an interview the tells the legend of the creation of the moon.

Consists of an interview that mentions how the priests gave the Blackfoot a new calendar as well as discussing how the Indians count.

American Indian Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 2014.

Describes legends told by Elders, including the creation story, origin of the wind, the Old Man, and the story of Kutoyis, the blood-clot boy.

Describes creation stories told by Chief Men-es-to-kos, an Elder of the Kainai Nation.

Includes stories of how the spirits intervene to help kidnapped persons escape.

Book review of: Blind Moses: Moses Tjalkabota Uraiakuraia, Aranda Man of High Degree and Christian Evangelist by Peter Latz. Scroll down to page 181 to read review.

2 p. list of biographies for five Blood chiefs written on January 11, 1977. Tape number IH-AG.08, transcript disc 25A.Brief biography of five Blood Chiefs.

Consists of an interview with George First Rider discussing various Horn Society practices, including the exchange of wives among the members.

Consists of an interview where he gives the legends behind various geographical features.

NOTE: This is a duplicate of tape #2 by Clarence Joe. See IH-BC.47, TRANSCRIPT DISC 171 for this transcript and index.

The book contains the histories, traditions and beliefs of Chipewyan, Dogrib, Slavey, and Loucheux peoples. The Dene told these histories and beliefs to Emile Petitot who wrote the words down in the Dene Language. The stories were compiled by Petitot between 1862 and 1875.

Historical note:

Book review of: An Apache Life-Way: The Economic, Social and Religious Institutions of the Chirichua Indians by Morris Edward Opler.

Book review of: Mythology of the Blackfoot Indians by Clark Wissier and D.C. Duvall.

Book review of: nikotwâsik iskwâtêm, pâskihtêpayik!: Studies in Honour of H.C. Wolfart by John D. Nichols and Arden C. Ogg.

Book review of: Loyal Till Death: Indians and the NorthWest Rebellion by Blair Stonechild and Bill Waiser.

Book reviews of 20 books: The American Indian Oral History Manual: Making Many Voices Heard by Charles E. Trimble, Barbara W. Sommer and Mary Kay Quinlan. Collaborating at the Trowel's Edge: Teaching and Learning in Indigenous Archaeology edited by Stephen W. Silliman. Doctor to the North: Thirty Years Treating Heart Disease Among the Inuit by John H.

Book review of: Aboriginal and Visible Minority Librarians edited by Deborah Lee and Mahalakshmi Kumaran.

Reviews several books: Across the Time and Tundra: The Inuvialuit of the Western Arctic by Ishamael Alunik, D.

Book review of Collections and Objections: Aboriginal Material Culture in Southern Ontario by Michelle A. Hamilton.

Review of: Pleasure of the Crown by Dara Culhane.

Review of: Maps of Experience: The Anchoring of Land to Story in Secwepemc Discourse by Andie Diane Palmer.

Review of The Assassination of Hole in the Day by Anton Treuer.

Book review of: Canada's First Nations: A History of Founding Peoples from Earliest Times by Olive Patricia Dickason. For this article scroll down to Page 386.

Book review of: For an Amerindian Autohistory: An Essay on the Foundation of a Social Ethnic by Georges Sioui.

Book review of: Black Elk and Flaming Rainbow: Personal Memoirs of the Lakota Holy Man and John Neihardt by Hilda Neihardt.

Book review of: Gin Das Winan: Documenting Aboriginal History in Ontario by The Champlain Society.

Book review of: If You Poison Us: Uranium and Native Americans by Peter H. Eichstaedt.

Book reviews of 5 books: Myths and Legends of the Pacific Northwest edited by Katharine Berry Judson. Trading Beyond the Mountains: The British Fur Trade on the Pacific, 1793-1843 by Richard S. Mackie. Tribal Boundaries in the Nass Watershed by Neil J. Sterrit et al. The Spirit of the Land: Statements of the Gitksan and Wet'suwet'en Chiefs in the Supreme Court of British Columbia 1987-1990 by Wa Gisday and Elgam Uukw. Flowers on My Grave: How an Ojibwa Boy's Death Helped Break the Silence on Child Abuse by Ruth Teichroeb.

Book review of: Oral Tradition as History by James Currey.

Book reviews of: Legends of our Times: Native Cowboy Life by Morgan Baillargeon and Leslie Tepper. The World Turned Upside Down: Indian Voices from Early America by Conlin Callway (Editor). Women in Trouble: Connecting Women's Law Violations to Their Histories of Abuse by Elizabeth Cormack. Leonard Bloomfield's Fox Lexicon: Critical Edition by Ives Goddard (Editor). White Man's Law: Native People in Nineteenth-Century Canadian Jurisprudence by Sidney L. Harring.