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Indian Record (Vol. 33, No. 3-4, March-April, 1970)

Documents & Presentations
"National publication for the Indians of Canada." Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Previously published as Indian Missionary Record. Articles reflect the attitudes and policies of the time.
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Indian Record (Vol. XXI, No. 5, May, 1958)

Documents & Presentations
"National publication for the Indians of Canada". Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Previously published as Indian Missionary Record. Articles reflect the attitudes and polices of the time.
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Indian Record (Vol. XXI, No. 9, November 1958)

Documents & Presentations
"National publication for the Indians of Canada". Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Previously published as Indian Missionary Record. Articles reflect the attitudes and polices of the time.
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Indian Rock Art - Selwyn Dewdney. - Booklet. - 1976.

Alternate Title
Popular Series (Saskatchewan Museum of Natural History) ; no. 4
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Selwyn Dewdney
This booklet lists primitive pictograph and petroglyph sites in Saskatchewan, the majority found in northern Saskatchewan. It details the discovery and conditions of the sites.
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Indian Rock Carvings of the Pacific North West

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Audrey Hawthorn
BC Studies, no. 11, Autumn, 1971, pp. 72-74
Book review by: Indian Rock Carvings of the Pacific North West by Edward Meade. Scroll down to page 72 to read review.
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An Indigenous Archive: Documenting Comanche History through Rock Art

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lindsay M. Montgomery
Severin Fowles
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 44, no. 2, Spring, 2020, pp. [196]-220
Looks at biographic-style images created in the northern Rio Grande region of New Mexico during the eighteenth century and argues that they constitute a historic text in their own right and that a combination of close examination and conversations with tribal members can create richer historical insights.
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"Interpretation is a Perilous Venture": Petroglyphs, Maps, and DNA

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Reginald Dyck
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 19, no. 1, Special Issue, Spring, 2007, pp. 49-65
Contends that the interpretation of both cultural artifacts, such as petroglyphs and contemporary writings require an understanding of cross-cultural boundaries, a recognition of one's own beliefs, assumptions and ideologies of socially constructed systems of meaning. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 49.
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Introduction to Rock Art Research

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Daniel Gendron
Canadian Journal of Archaeology, vol. 31, no. 2, 2007, pp. 261-263
Book review of: Introduction to Rock Art Research by David S. Whitley.
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A Key Pictograph from the Bloodvein River, Manitoba

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jack Steinbring
Douglas Elias
American Antiquity, vol. 33, no. 4, October 1968, pp. 499-501
Recording of a large pictograph of a moose and concerns about rising waters obscuring rock paintings.
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A List of Petroglyphs in British Columbia

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Harlan I. Smith
American Anthropologist, vol. 29, no. 4, New Series, October-December 1927, pp. 605-610
Presents sites known in 1927 and includes annotated bibliography including locations of photographic and related materials such as casts or moulds available at that time.
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Mackenzie's Rock / With a map showing the course followed by the explorer from Bella Coola, B.C., to the Rock, and illustrated with views along the route. - R.P. Bishop. - Booklet. - 1923.

Alternate Title
Historic Sites Series (National and Historic Parks Branch) ; no. 6
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
R.P. Bishop
Booklet on Captain Bishop's efforts to locate the rock which was the westernmost point reached by Sir Alexander Mackenzie during his 1793 expedition into what is now British Columbia.
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Manito Ahbee Aki: The Place Where the Creator Sits: Educator Guide Phase 1 [The Forks]

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Manito Ahbee Aki: The Place Where the Creator Sits: Educator Guide Phase 2 [The Petroforms]
Manito Ahbee Aki: The Place Where the Creator Sits: Educator Guide Phase 3 [Thriving Communities]
Minecraft Education Edition
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Minecraft Education Edition

Interactive game in which students travel back in time to become members of the Anishinaabe Nation in Manitoba before the European contact and engage in activities in which they learn about the environment, traditional worldviews, and a scared site called Manito Ahbee, and gain knowledge from Knowledge Keepers. Game is free, but students must register to play.

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Manito Ahbee Aki: The Place Where the Creator Sits: Student Guide Phase 1 [The Forks]

Alternate Title
Manito Ahbee Aki: The Place Where the Creator Sits: Student Guide Phase 2 [The Petroforms]
Manito Ahbee Aki: The Place Where the Creator Sits: Student Guide Phase 3 [Thriving Communities]
Minecraft Education Edition
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Minecraft Education Edition

Interactive game in which students travel back in time to become members of the Anishinaabe Nation in Manitoba before the European contact and engage in activities in which they learn about the environment, traditional worldviews, and a scared site called Manito Ahbee, and gain knowledge from Knowledge Keepers. Game is free, but students must register to play.

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Maps, Mapmaking, and Map Use by Native North Americans

Alternate Title
Cartography in the Traditional African, American, Arctic, Australian, and Pacific Societies
The History of Cartography; vol, 2, bk. 3
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
G. Malcolm Lewis
Attempts to describe Native American ways of representing worlds and landscapes. Chapter 4 in book: Cartography in the Traditional African, American, Arctic, Australian, and Pacific Societies edited by David Woodward and G. Malcolm Lewis.
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Mathematics-Like Principles Inferred From the Petroglyphs

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Charles G. Moore
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 27, no. 2, January 1988, pp. [30-36]
Advances the possibility that concepts of math are being communicated and suggests several related classroom activities.
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Mi'kmaq Petroglyphs

Alternate Title
[Carved in Stone: Mi'kmaq Petroglyphs Recorded by George Creed 1887-88]
[Carved in Stone: Mi'kmaw Petroglyphs Recorded by George Creed: 1887-88]
Web Sites » Virtual Exhibits
Author/Creator
Nova Scotia Museum of Cultural History
Site provides general information about petroglyphs, how they are recorded, and includes biographical information about George Creed who traced and documented a number of petroglyph sites in Nova Scotia.
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The Mono Craters Petroglyphs, California

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Emma Lou Davis
American Antiquity, vol. 27, no. 2, October 1961, pp. 236-239
Analysis of the carved horseshoe symbol and its relation to Diegueño girl's initiation ceremony.
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Petroglyph's of California and Adjoining States

Alternate Title
University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology ; v.24, no.2
E-Books
Author/Creator
Julian H. Steward
Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 24, (pp47-288).
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Petroglyphs in Southeastern Alaska

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
George T. Emmons
American Anthropologist, vol. 10, no. 2, New Series, April-June 1908, pp. 221-230
Tlingit petroglyphs on the islands of the Alexander archipelago.
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Petroglyphs of the South Mountains of Arizona

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ernest E. Snyder
American Antiquity, vol. 31, no. 5, July 1966, pp. 705-709
Describes over 2000 designs, likely created by Hohokam farmers of Arizona during 1 and 1500 A.D.
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Radiocarbon Dates on the All American Man Pictograph

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Scott D. Chaffee
Marian Hyman
Marvin W. Rowe
Nancy J. Coulam
Alan Schroedl
Kathleen Hogue.
American Antiquity, vol. 59, no. 4, October 1994, pp. 769-781
Tests validate item's authenticity and suggest it is Anasazi in origin dating back to 14th century.
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Re-Present-Ing Rock Art

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Patricia Vervoort
American Review of Canadian Studies, vol. 31, no. 1-2, [Aboriginal Peoples: Special Issue], Spring/Summer, 2001, pp. 209-23
Discusses artists who are reclaiming rock art as part of their own history and "re-inventing" the art form. Includes artists such as: Joanne Cardinal-Schubert, the late Norval Morrisseau, and Ahmoo Angeconeb.
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