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Smohalla, the Washani, and Religion as a Factor in Northwestern Indian History

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Clifford E. Trafzer
Margery Ann Beach
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 3, Prophets: Religious Leaders and Revitalization Movements, Summer, 1985, pp. 309-324
Discusses Washani religious leader Smohlla preaching a return to traditional ways and leading a peaceful resistance to the Indian Homestead Act.
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The Spirits of the Dead in Saulteaux Life and Thought

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
A. Irving Hallowell
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 70, no. 1, 1940, pp. 29-51
Focuses on beliefs about the afterlife and those who have visited the spirit (ghost) land.
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Spirituality, the Hidden Reality: Living and Learning in Anishenabe Country

Alternate Title
Spirituality, the Hidden Reality: Living and Learning in Anishnaabe Country
Spirituality, the Hidden Reality: Living and Learning in Anishnabe Country
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Edward J. Hedican
Canadian Journal of Native Studies , vol. 21, no. 1, 2001, pp. 27-43
Author relates his experiences with spiritual beliefs in a northern Ontario community.
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The Stones Shall Cry Out: Consciousness, Rocks, and Indians

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
George Tinker
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 19, no. 2, Fall, 2004, pp. 105-125
Osage perspective on the consciousness of rocks and trees and their ability to speak. Comparison of Western scientific thought with the relationship between Native Americans and nature.
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Storying Swí:lhcha: Place Making and Power at a Stó:lō Landmark

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sabina Trimble
BC Studies, no. 190, Histories of Settler Colonialism, Summer, 2016, pp. 39-66
Looks at three types of place making stories about Swidhcha or Cultus Lake: original stories, trail stories, and boundary-making stories.
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Structural Patterning in Kwakiutl Art and Ritual

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Abraham Rosman
Paula G. Rubel
Man, vol. 25, no. 4, December 1990, pp. 620-639
Shows that the stylistic and representational contrasts in art correspond with the division of the Kwakiutl year based on notions of secular and sacred.
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Supernatural Beings of the Huron and Wyandot

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
C. M. Barbeau
American Anthropologist, vol. 16, no. 2, New Series, April-June 1914, pp. 288-313
Turn of the century anthropologist's description of two classes of deities and spirits.
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Tecumseh, The Shawnee Prophet, and American History: A Reassessment

Articles » General
Author/Creator
R. David Edmunds
The Western Historical Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 3, July 1983, pp. 261-276
Discusses reasons why white Americans found Tecumseh to be a great man and warrior, compared to his brother Tenskwatawa the Holy man, who was thought of as a coward and pretender.
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Thirty-Third Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1911-1912

E-Books
Author/Creator
F. W. Hodge
Report includes the following papers: Report of the Ethnologist-in-Charge by F. W. Hodge Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region by Melvin Randolph Gilmore Preliminary Account of the Antiquities of the Region between the Mancos and La Plata Rivers in Southwestern Colorado by Earl H. Morris Designs on Prehistoric Hopi Pottery by Jesse Walter Fewkes The Hawaiian Romance of Laieikawai by Martha Warren Beckwith
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Those Who Run in the Sky: Novel Study

Alternate Title
Inuktut Titiqqiriniq
E-Books
Author/Creator
Department of Education, Government of Nunavut

Story about a young Inuit shaman who finds himself in the world of the spirits and must master all his powers to make his way home.

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Thunderbird and Trickster

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Steve Mizrach
Looks at the myths of the thunderbird and how they are linked to the sacred clowning/trickster, the Heyoka of the Lakota.
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To Find a Treasure: The Nuu-chah-nulth Wolf Mask

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Arnold Kruger
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 27, no. 3, 2003, pp. 71-86
Explores the Nuu-chah-nulth Wolf Ritual of The Northwest Coast Native nation.
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Totems and Amulets in the Nanaian Spiritual Culture

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Olga Beldiy
The Northern Review, no. 22, Winter, 2000, pp. 86-88
Article describes the Nanai people's myths that tell about the origins of some of their ancestors from the animal kingdom.
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Traditions of the Lillooet Indians of British Columbia

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James Teit
Journal of American Folklore, vol. 25, no. 98, October-December 1912, pp. 287-371
Includes a diverse variety of tales of transformation, floods, the origin of copper and many other stories.
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Transformations of Meaning: The Life History of a Nuxalk Mask

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lisa P. Seip
World Archaeology, vol. 31, no. 2, October 1, 1999, pp. 272-287
Cultural biography of a sacred mask of Alk'unta'm, discussing how the meaning and perception of it changed during its journey from its origin to a museum.
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The Trickster as Selfish-Buffoon and Culture Hero

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael P. Carroll
Ethos, vol. 12, no. 2, Summer, 1984, pp. 105-131
Defines trickster and reviews different trickster categories from North America, South America and Africa.
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