Artifacts & Tools

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Manitoba, 2013.

Discusses joint agreement between the Museum and the community resulting in different options for collecting, displaying and repatriation of all culturally sensitive materials.

Discusses the North American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) in relation to archaeological material.

Chapter thirteen in book: Repatriation Reader: Who Owns American Indian Remains? edited by Devon A. Mihesuah.

Discussion of ownership rights with respect to Aboriginal artifacts housed within museums or other government agencies.

Website has links to repatriation reports, initiatives, acts and legislation and contact information.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, 1999.

Book review of: The Material Culture of the Chumash Interaction Sphere by Travis Hudson and Thomas C. Blackburn.

Book reviews of: The View From Officers' Row: Army Perceptions of Western Indians by Sherry L. Smith. Indians of the Northwest Coast by Maximilien Bruggmann and Peter R. Gerber. Oklahoma Seminoles, Medicine, Magic, and Religion by James H. Howard in collaboration with Willie Lena. American Indian Identities: Today's Changing Perspectives edited by Clifford E. Trafzer. Oil Age Eskimos by Joseph G. Jorgensen. The Western Abenakis of Vermont, 1600-1800: War, Migration, and the Survival of an Indian People by Colin G.

Book reviews of: The Witch of Goingsnake and Other Stories by Robert J. Conley. Social Change in the Southwest, 1350-1880 by Thomas D. Hall. Collections Arctiques by Yvon Csonka. New Directions in American Indian History edited by Colin G. Calloway. Hasinai: A Traditional History of the Caddo Confederacy by Vynola Beaver Newkumet, Howard L. Meredith. Sous le signe de l'ours.

Book reviews on: Coast Salish Essays by Wayne Suttles. Phoenix Indian School by Robert Trennert. The Good Red Road: Passages into Native America by Kenneth Lincoln with Al Logan Slagle. The Indians of Texas: An Annotated Research Bibliography by Michael L. Tate. The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains by John C. Fremont. Among the Sioux of Dakota: Eighteen Months' Experience as an Indian Agent, 1869-70 by D. C. Poole. Sovereignty and Symbol: Indian-White Conflict at Ganeinkeh by Gail H.

He gives an account of the Sioux participation in the War of 1812 on the side of the British, and the Sioux interpretation of the reward promised them by the British Crown; tells the history and whereabouts of the King George III medals given to the Sioux for their loyalty to the British Crown during the War of 1812; tells the story of two Sioux chiefs who were kidnapped in Manitoba and returned to the United States, presumably for their part in the 1862 Sioux uprising (Minnesota Massacre); tells of the dispersal of the Sioux in their flight from the U.S.

He tells stories of treachery by Americans against the Sioux who had fled to Prince Albert, Saskatchewan after the 1862 Minnesota Massacre, including distribution of disease-infested clothing and food. NOTE: Attempt to verify with R.C.M.P. records. He also sings and explains a very old Dakota song sung by children when rabbit-hunting.

He tells a story of a woman who was taken prisoner and carried off to live in an enemy camp; her treachery against her brothers and husband when they came to rescue her; how she was killed by her own mother because of her treachery; her mother's atonement after the killing.

Comments on a large collection of artifacts being donated to the Peabody Foundation and some of the problems with the classification of this material.

Looks at subsistence practices of Paleoeskimos on the southern coast of the Hudson Strait at Tayara excavation site and KcFs-2 site in Nunavik.

Research into the history of blade production and how this technology developed.

File contains an individual presentation by Leo Rutledge, one of twelve advisors to the heritage conservation branch of British Columbia. Rutledge invites the days participants to comment to him on potential heritage sites to be designated for provincial protection. Following Rutldege's remarks the Commission adjourns the day's session.

A comprehensive guide to the First Nations Gallery at the Royal Saskatchewan Museum in Regina. Includes a variety of historical and anthropological information on First Nations within present day Saskatchewan.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2002.

Argues that circles found in North Norway are the same as those found in the forest lands of northern Sweden.

Nine elders in discussion at Saddle Lake Reserve. They talk about aspects of life before contact with whites, Treaty #6, the history of amalgamations and land sales, and a traditional story of a boy raised by buffalo.

Discusses issues related to vandalism, destruction and scientific research of a Native American burial site.

Bering Archaeological Expedition examines settlement pattern, bone tool manufacture, dwellings and pottery.

Examination of a bison bone site that shows the seasons in which bison where butchered and the associated projectile points.

Explains that despite surface erosion, the Security Cove site in southwestern Alaska provides data on the activities of the site occupants.

Political Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 2015.

Forms part of Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, v.64 (p.79-175).

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 7, (pp309-356).

Consists of an interview with George First Rider about the story of the coyote who taught the hunter how to get game, and the success which followed for the hunter and his companions.

Shell deposits contain, not only the bone point, but also bipolar and bifacial asymmetry; objects were projectile points often made to be spliced into a shaft.

Artifacts found at the Sims site in Tennessee give an insight into early humans.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta, 1998. Discussion of the newly identified Selkirk composite pottery named Keskatchewan.

Report includes the following papers: Report of the Director by J. W. Powell Primitive Trephining in Peru by Manuel Antonio Muñiz, M.D. and W. J. McGee The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona by Cosmos Mindeleff Day Symbols of the Maya Year by Cyrus Thomas Tusayan Snake Ceremonies by Jesse Walter Fewkes

Book review of: Slavery Before Race by Katherine Howlett Hayes.

Discussion of three projectile point types and where this style may have come from.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Nebraska, 2011.

Analysis of the acquisition, trade, and distribution of obsidian in the southern United States.

Summary of the University of Nebraska State Museum's excavation of sites with extinct mammal bones and early human artifacts.

Book review of: Indian Art of the Northwest Coast by Bill Holm and Bill Reid.

Examines evidence on the assumption that the bow and arrow replaced the altalt spear thrower in eastern North America.

[Anthropology] Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 2006.

Article explores the variation in interpretation of how individuals give tools and artifacts a, "life essence".

Book review of: Spirit Wars: Native North American Religion in the Age of Nation Building by Ronald Niezen.

Looks at the dependence on birds for food and sewing needles.

Describes a habitation site containing the remains of baskets radiocarbon dated 225 A.D.