Ceremonies

An overview and analysis of the Nanticoke, a lost Indigenous group from Maryland adopted by the Delaware, their death rituals, and the Skeleton Dance and its significance.

Video interview with Narcisse Blood discussing ceremonies based on a way of life and environment that is being destroyed. Duration: 59:41.

Displays 20 items from collection featuring watercolors and drawings from 1883-1949.

File contains 11 negatives from the National Treaty Chief's Meeting at the Beardy's Reserve on July 19, 1988. The first negative shows a procession of dignitaries with the Canadian flag. The second shows an unidentified Chief or elder with the Canadian flag. The third and forth show men apparently in prayer, with the flags of Canada and Great Britain. The fifth and sixth show two men in a tent one, of whom appears to be delivering a speech. The seventh and eighth show a procession of men (one of whom is an Aboriginal RCMP member) with a what appears to be an unidentified flag and a coup stick.

Examines the NAC, the beliefs of Native Americans in regards to the use of peyote and psychopharmological data about peyote cactus.

Explains what a Northwest Copper is and provides photographs of notable Coppers and their stories.

Humanities Thesis (M.A.)--University of Louisville, 2000.

Selection of web gallery photographs featuring Pacific Northwest masks belonging to the Kwakwaka'wakw, Makah, Nuu-chah-nulth and Yup'ik people.

Book review of: Native American Performance and Representation edited by S. E. Wilmer.

Incorporates spirituality into care of all patients and employs the medicine wheel and 'grandfather stone' as clinical tools.

Educational Thought and Sociocultural Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of New Mexico, 1999.

Book review of: Native American Spirituality edited by Lee Irwin.

Brief list of sources. Current as of 2001.

First of series B1715-17 of Native Indians in elaborate beaded clothing honour a middle-aged Caucasian man, probably at the Exhibition grounds. An article in the Star-Phoenix July 22, 1943 describes a ceremony on stage in front of the grandstand, in which Sid Johns, secretary-manager of the Exhibition, was inducted into the tribe of Sioux Indians and made an [honorary] Indian chief, by Chief Harry Littlecrow. Johns was named Chief Fine Weather.

Historical note:

Overview of Aboriginal history from the 1850s to 2000. Could be used as an educational resource for high school students.

A group of Native and non-Native people at Fort Carlton nd. There are three Native men with headdresses and three non-Native women in dresses and sun hats. There is a Union Jack on a pole and a teepee in the background. Probably a treaty day celebration.

Comments on the American Indian Religious Freedom Act (AIRFA) and the Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA)

Ivan Morin's view of the needs of Aboriginal offenders in prison.

Chapter 7 in book: Gender Ironies of Nationalism: Sexing the Nation edited by Tamar Mayer. Discusses customary practices and protection of tribal ceremony. Scroll down to page 163 to read chapter.

Discussion of combining Aboriginal spirituality with Christianity.

Series of eight brief brochures designed as primers for cultural practices related to health and healing.

Natives hauling a totem pole through the snow in Kitwanga, BC.

Discusses the essential facts about the ceremony attempting to adjust certain misunderstandings.

Authors compare each community's attitudes toward participating in the war, ceremonies conducted before and after enlistees went abroad and community response to the acculturation experienced by the veterans.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol.5, (pp21-63).

Art Thesis (M.A.)--University of Arizona, 1978.

Examines the homestead (Hooghan) within the context of Navajo natural philosophy, religious ceremonies and revival in the Navajo community.

Book review of: The Nightway: A History of Documentation of a Navajo Ceremonial by James C. Faris.

Examines Navajo patriarchy within different aspects of the Navajo nation such as government, ceremonies, music, sports and social life.

Discusses how a curriculum framed from the Aboriginal perspective benefits Native American students.

Book review of: Navajo Sandpainting by Nancy. J. Parezo.

Paper discusses the author's personal journey to self-determination through ceremony and spirituality.

Description of the Second Annual First Nation International Healing and Medicines Gathering held at the Nekaneet First Nation in August 2001.

"Both parts illustrated with maps and figures, and dedicated to His Majesty K. William."

Uses correspondence to and from Joseph Brown to explore his personal philosophy and his process of transcribing and editing The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk’s Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux

Contends that attitudes toward and perceptions of television parallel those regarding the role of the "shaking tent" ceremony in their own culture.

Detailed description of a Salishan blanket obtained by Captain Benjamin Swift around the year 1800.

Excellent resource for providing an overview of a broad range of topics such as treaties, residential schools, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, the Sixties Scoop, traditional cultural teachings and protocols.

Based on the work of five focus groups located in Saskatoon, Regina, North Battleford, Prince Albert, and La Ronge.

"A Response to TRC's Call-To-Action 93".

Book review of: The Nightway by James C. Faris.

Discusses a proposed Indigenous educational theory centering on Niitsitapi ways of knowing to reappropriate the curricular space.

Virtual exhibition divided into six sections: how we lived with the buffalo; how we lived with the land; how we lived with other people; our world; and traditional stories. Includes link to teacher toolkit.