Ceremonies

Discusses perspectives on ceremony in relation to gender definition, role and status in Pacific Northwest region.

Author listened to Duquayis women sing during their visit to Chicago and he wrote music to "Song of the Chieftainess at the Potlatch."

Book review of: Women, Rites and Sites edited by Peggy Brock.

Describes the regalia and the origin of the dance.

Follows history of the blanket to North America and the use of the Hudson's Bay Company point blanket by Canadian artist Sonny Assu.

Elders present songs and prayers with discussion about the loss of traditions and values, evils of alcohol, role of elders, etc. Also stories of adventures in intertribal warfare ; a story of a man who married a thunderwoman.

Examines how the Ghost Dance was understood by non-Aboriginal Americans.

Discusses repatriation request by the Pine Ridge Wounded Knee Survivors Association for articles housed at the Art Gallery and Museum in Kelvingrove, Glasgow. Articles included a necklace, moccasins, Sioux cradle and Ghost Shirt.

Indigenous Education & Linguistics Thesis (M.A.)--University of Victoria, 2016.

Focusing on the Mount Currie communities' protesting for Indigenous rights through the two Constitution Express movements.

Human and Social Development Thesis (M.A.)--University of Victoria, 2007.

Presents contrasting views, between the Inuit and early ethnographers, on the ancient drum dance and its meaning. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 20.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 1997

Forms part of Memoirs of the American Museums of Natural History, v. 13 (p. [135]-342). Parts of text are vocabulary, appear in English and Yukaghir.

Discussion of the opening ceremonies of a healing building for the terminally ill at the Whitehorse General Hospital.

Heritage Edition.

A description of the Zuni Pueblo's yearly dramatic theatrical performances that unites the Zuni socially, economically, politically and religiously.