Ceremonies

Practicum for Master of Landscape Architecture (M.A)-University of Manitoba, 2020.

Provides an interpretation of the winter ceremony and the Kwakwaka'wakw's relationship to the salmon.

Book review of: Rediscovering the First Nations of Canada by John W. Friesen.

Uses oral and historical accounts to show how culturally grounded practices including dreaming, dancing, singing physical distancing were used in response to epidemics. Small pox, Spanish Flu, and COVID-19 time periods are discussed.

Links to a video that describes the programming which creates opportunities for families to participate in ceremonial and land-based ways of knowing and healing. Rekindling the Sacred Fire... Duration: 21:19

Book review of Rekindling the Sacred Fire by Chantal Fiola.

Religious Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Ottawa, 1996.

Philosophy Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 1977.

Forms part of Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, v. 25 (p.309-444).

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol.4, (pp319-356).

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 8, (pp69-186).

Provides information on unique spiritual belief systems among Aboriginal Peoples of North America before the arrival of Europeans. Scroll to pg 74

Clothing and Textiles Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Alberta, 1993.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 8, (pp271-358).

American Studies Thesis (M.Sc.)--Utah State University, 1997.

Contends that while the competition of the potlatch has been suppressed, heads of households vie for prestige by providing lavish feasts.

Article describes the social and political factors and events that influenced and were a part of the extended process of repatriating potlatch artifacts that had been confiscated in 1922 under an amendment to the Indian Act prohibiting the potlatch ceremony.

Studies the culture of the Stlatlumh tribe of the Salish from the interior of British Columbia

Presents examples gathered by various methods including firsthand and controlled observations, studies and experiments

Comments on the changes to reservation life due to modern communications and electricity and the need to return to a simpler, less complicated life that includes traditional ways.

Looks at the Aboriginal concept of respect by comparing the epistemological meaning of respect, storytelling, terminology, reciprocity and ritual.

Comments on Australian indigenous ceremonial traditions that include song, music and designs and how they interweave with the political, the religious, and the aesthetic.

Looks at some basic definitions of the participatory research subtypes including community-based research and participatory action research.

Brief article looks at North American Native approaches to social and spiritual internal harmony and balance. Access article through table of contents.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1999.

Book reviews of: American Indian Activism: Alcatraz to the Longest Walk edited by Troy Johnson, Joane Nagel, and Duane Champagne. As We Are Now: Mixblood Essays on Race and Identity edited by William S. Penn. Cahokia: Domination and Ideology in the Mississippian World edited by Timothy R. Pauketat and Thomas E.

Book reviews of: American Indians in World War I: At War and At Home by Thomas A. Britten. Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940 by Brenda J. Child. Choctaw Genesis, 1500-1700 by Patricia Galloway. Daily Life on the Nineteenth-Century American Frontier by Mary Ellen Jones. Dancing the Dream: The Seven Sacred Paths of Human Transformation by Jamie Sams. The Great Peace: The Gathering of Good Minds (CD-ROM) by Raymond Skye et.

Book reviews of: An Account of the Antiquities of the Indians by Fray Ramon Pané, José Juan Arrom et al. American Indians in the Marketplace: Persistence and Innovation among the Menominees and Metlakatlans, 1870-1920 by Brian C.

Book reviews of: Through Dakota Eyes: Narrative Accounts of the Minnesota Indian War of 1862 edited by Gary Clayton Anderson, Alan R. Woolworth. Abstracts of Native Studies, Volume 1. Abstracts of Native Studies, Volume 2 edited by R. C. Annis. Fools Crow by James Welch. The Seminole by Merwyn S. Garbarino. The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West by Patricia Nelson Limerick. Southeastern Pomo Ceremonials: The Kuksu Cult and Its Successors by Abraham M.

Book reviews of: As Long as the Rivers Run: Hydroelectric Development and Native Communities in Western Canada by James B. Waldram. Sun Journey: A Story of Zuni Pueblo by Ann Nolan Clark. Maricopa Morphology and Syntax by Lynn Gordon. The Cheyenne Nation: A Social and Demographic History by John H. Moore. Pride of the Indian Wardrobe-Northern Athapascan Footwear by Judy Thompson. Sagebrush Soldier: Private William Earl Smith's View of the Sioux War of 1876 by Sherry L.

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: Books Without Bias: Through Indian Eyes edited by Beverly Slapin and Doris Seale Teaching the Native American edited by Hap Gilliland, Jon Reyhner, and Rachel Schafer Indian School Days by Basil H. Johnston Ojibway Heritage by Basil H. Johnston Ojibway Ceremonies by Basil H.

Art Thesis (M.A.)--Kent State University, 2010.

Presents a picture of the world that continues to exist for Indigenous people.

Arts and Philosophy Thesis--University of Pardubice, 2009.

Promotes the study of housepit structures to begin to interpret the bases and origins of social inequality.

Author describes the process of gaining and using ritual knowledge in a Hopi context; examines some of the misunderstandings created by anthropologists about those who hold ritual knowledge.

Describes greeting ceremonies used by the Quapaw and Caddo tribes when explorers Rene-Robert Cavelier and Sieur de La Salle made their way up the Mississippi River.

Robert Goodvoice tells a story about the journey of a group of Sioux from the United States to Canada, through Portage la Prairie, Manitoba to Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. He tells of a settlement of the Wahpaton (Round Plain) Reserve in Saskatchewan and the division of the Sioux tribe. He also talks about Indian medicine and curing practices and reflects on the loss of knowledge of the old ways.

He tells a number of stories of people and objects which were lost, and how they were found with the help of "people with the power to find things" (prophets).

He tells a story about the origins of the Dakota (Sioux) guardian spirit and his powers; and how Iktomi differs from the equivalent Cree spirit power (Wisakedjak).

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.

He describes the movement of the Dakota Sioux to Canada. He also mentions various plants used for medicine