Ceremonies

Examines the role of dreams and dreaming in Indigenous Plains cultures and compares it to the Euro-American dreams studies.

Study recounts the long-term benefits of the ayahuasca experience for spiritual and psychological growth.

Discusses differences between Western and Indigenous understandings of what maps are, how they are made, how they look and what they do using two examples: one a drawing of north-eastern Siberia by a Chukchi man, the other by Sami of Lapland using marks on a drum in conjunction with Shamanistic performances as a means of mapping physical, spiritual and temporal elements of the environment.

Describes a web site that explores the history of North American Aboriginal music.

Mental health resource developed for the Daughter Spirit in Action program, a National Aboriginal Suicide Prevention Strategy demonstration project.

Focuses on the Anishnaabe and changes they made in their negotiation tactics, away from a process dependant on ceremony, formal rhetoric and consensus decision-making, in order to remain on their land.

Comments on the definition of "invented tradition" and how this may be applied to powwows in southwestern Ontario.

Book review of: E. W. Nelson's Notes on the Indians of the Yukon and Innoko Rivers, Alaska edited and with an introduction by James W. VanStone.

Book review of: Eagle Down Is Our Law by Antonia Mills.

Book review of: Eagle Down is Our Law by Antonia Mills and Doing Things the Right Way by Joan Ryan.

A portrait of an Aboriginal family in a studio setting. All are dressed in ceremonial costume. Colours have been added to the photograph in a chromolithograph process. The postcard is addressed to Miss Myrtle Meakin, French River, Ontario.

Description of clothing and accessories worn by dancers showing transitional changes in style.

Author suggests that based on evidence, ritual cave use was associated with new social institutions being created and the beginnings of horticultural economics.

Explains different wampum diplomacy, use as personal ornamentation and in ceremonial objects.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 33, (pp139-232).

Argues that powwows provide the opportunity to display a rich legacy of signifying materials, that can be modified for the changing political winds in Canada.

Book review of: The Edge of the Woods Jon Parmenter.

Consists of an interview where she discusses Medicine Men and their purported powers. She briefly mentions Indian superstitions (being born with a caul on her face; being the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter).

Describes the relationship of the Indians to their natural surroundings and gives accounts of Treaty #6 obtained from his grandfathers.

Author examines 13 treaties made between 1736 and 1762 and collected for publication by Benjamin Franklin; argues that the texts of the treaties demonstrate not only the influence of the Iroquois signatories, but also their worldview and spiritual practice, and function as a form of ritual or ceremony.

Report includes the following papers: Report of the Director by J. W. Powell A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola by Victor Mindeleff Ceremonial of Hasjelti Dailjis and Mythical Sand Painting of the Navajo Indians by James Stevenson

Discusses how the "Day of the Dead" celebration integrates many Mayan practices with Catholic rituals.

Explorer's journals provide the most detailed known account of practices as they existed before the introduction of Christianity.

Senator Bill Standingready of the White Bear First Nation compares past and current powwows.

Elders, men and women, reminisce on their early lives involving hard work and strict discipline and voice regrets that the young people of today are not given enough guidance.

Discussion of the need to preserve dances and other ceremonies in their original format and to show respect for them. No date given, probably Dec. 5-8, 1972 like the other files in this series.

Side A of this tape has not been translated into English. Side B is a conference about Ojibway legends of creation, flood and migration and how these compare to the legends of other peoples. Also talks about the origins of the clans and Midewiwin lodge.

This tape contains Cree songs sung by Eli Pooyak. These have not been translated.

Interview includes stories about the origin of the Sioux Dance and tales about the Sliding and Drumming hills.

Assesses the work of Europeans Mircea Eliade and Ake Hultkrantz in the field of comparative religion, with emphasis on their work on Native Americans.

Consists of an interview where she tells of a frightening trip through the woods as a child.

Consists of an interview with Eliza Kneller where she describes the smallpox epidemic following World War I. She gives a description of basket making, an account of life in a Catholic school in Chicago and an account of New Year's celebrations amongst children.

Consists of an interview where she gives a brief account of Indian medicine; she mentions accounts she has heard of the War of 1812; and mentions certain superstitions.

Consists of an interview where she gives an account of Longhouse ceremonies and beliefs. She also gives an account of Longhouse funeral practices.

Consists of an interview with Elmira McLeod where she gives general reminiscences about her childhood as well as recounting stories that she heard as a child.

Consists of an interview where she gives general reminiscences about her childhood and an account of Christmas festivities. She also gives brief mention of ghost stories and native superstitions.

Consists of an interview where she gives an account of ghost stories and superstitions.

Consists of an interview where she tells of stories for amusement and general reminiscences of her life.

Consists of an interview with a general discussion on superstitions, the use of nature to forecast weather and other general reminiscences of her life.

Consists of an interview that gives an account of an earthquake in 1933.

Consists of an interview about the origin of the Pigeon Society of the Blood Indians as well as the Ghost Dance and Big Smoke ceremonies.

Article examines the interaction between Moravian missionaries and Lenape people; describes similarities and differences in spiritual beliefs and practices.

Description of the organization of a traditional camp ; description of the Ladies Handgame of the Assiniboine or Stoney.

Studies indicate that Native American men report feelings of hopelessness, and lack in tradition or direction.

Article speaks to many of the pieces included in Issue 20:2 of American Indian Quarterly, Repatriation: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue, and describes some of the process and changes happening in Indigenous and Archaeological communities.

Presents observation of coastal an Alaskan village over an eight month period from 1973 to 1974 in Tununak, on Nelson Island.

Looks at game songs, songs-within-stories, dance songs and ceremonial dance songs.