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Pawnee Mortuary Traditions

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Roger C. Echo-Hawk
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 16, no. 2, 1992, pp. 77-99
Consulting ethnographic literature, Pawnee traditions and historical records reveal a complex heritage where funeral preparations varied according to rank.
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The Pawnee of Nebraska: Twice Removed

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Orlan J. Svingen
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 16, no. 2, 1992, pp. 121-137
Chronicles the grave looting that took place after relocations in the 1870s and the Nebraska State Historical Society professionalizing the activity, even labelling it archaeological excavation.
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Preface

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Walter Echo-Hawk
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 16, no. 2, 1992, pp. 1-7
Introductory article to a special issue devoted to the Repatriation of American Indian Remains.
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Public Archaeology Forum

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Hester A. Davis
James T. Finnigan
Journal of Field Archaeology, vol. 16, no. 2, Summer, 1989, pp. 233-240
Fort Qu'Appelle archaeological burial controversy of 1985 from the perspective of the Saskatchewan Association of Professional Archaeologists.
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Public Archaeology Forum

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Hester A. Davis
Ernest G. Walker
Brian E. Spurling
Journal of Field Archaeology, vol. 14, no. 4, Winter, 1987, pp. 481-486
Archaeological burial management in Saskatchewan and lessons learned from disturbing Fort Qu'Appelle burial site unearthed in 1985.
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Racial Necrogeographies and the Making of White Space: The Life and Death of Nineteenth-Century Indigenous and Black Burial Places in Rural Ontario

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
William Felepchuk
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 2, 2019, pp. 73-87
Looks at burial sites desecrated by settlers, how these acts represent an attempt to erase Indigenous and Black existence, and how these communities have pushed back by reclaiming and reconsecrating their scared places.
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Reburial Ethics: The Neiden and Rounala Cases

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kjell-Åke Aronsson
Norwegian Archaeological Review, vol. 46, no. 2, 2013, pp. 223-225
Discusses reburial case where 21 skulla and skeletons were dug up and taken to the University of Uppsala.
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The Religion of the Indians of California

Alternate Title
University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology ; v.4, no.6
E-Books
Author/Creator
Alfred L. Kroeber
Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol.4, (pp319-356).
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Religions in Canada - Native Spirituality

Web Sites » Governmental
Author/Creator
National Defence and the Canadian Forces
Provides information on unique spiritual belief systems among Aboriginal Peoples of North America before the arrival of Europeans. Scroll to pg 74
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Second Stories Discussion Guide

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Barbara Esdale

Three short features are discussed: Honour Thy Father by Gerald Auger; It Had To Be Done by Tessa Desnomie; and Deb-we-win Ge-kend-am-aan, Our Place in the Circle by Lorne Olson.

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Social Archaeology of Funerary Remains

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Aubrey Cannon
Canadian Journal of Archaeology, vol. 31, no. 2, 2007, pp. 250-253
Book review of: Social Archaeology of Funerary Remains edited by Rebecca Gowland and Christopher Knüsel.
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Stolen Spirits of Haida Gwaii

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Kristina McLaughlin
Michael McMahon
Narratives of historical events impacting the Haida Gwaii villages in British Columbia and the preparation to repatriate ancestral bones from the Field Museum in Chicago back to the Haida Nation. Duration 1:14:12.
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Tecumseh's Bones

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
William Campbell
Ontario History, vol. 97, no. 2, Summer, 2005, p. 227
Book review of: Tecumseh's Bones by Guy St. Denis.
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Tecumseh's Bones

Alternate Title
McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series ; 47
E-Books
Author/Creator
Guy St-Denis
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Time and Eldership in Torrobo World View

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Shelley Ashdown
AlterNative, vol. 6, no. 3, 2010, pp. 261-271
Discusses the orientation to past, present and future time in the Ceremony of Eldership.
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The Tlingit Indians

Alternate Title
Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History ; no. 70
E-Books
Author/Creator
George Thornton Emmons
Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History
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Tlingit Speeches for the Removal of Grief

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nora Marks Dauenhauer
Richard Dauenhauer
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 40, no. 2, 2003, pp. 30-40
Discusses the reenactment of speeches made by tribe members and the dramatic impact on the audience.
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The Truman Mound Site, Big Bend Reservoir Area, South Dakota

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert W. Neuman
American Antiquity, vol. 26, no. 1, July 1960, pp. 78-92
Excavation of late Woodland burial mounds, each pit had a single individual and burial offerings. Pottery was of a single type, undecorated.
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Variations on a Rite of Passage: Some Recent Navajo Funerals

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joyce Griffen
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 4, no. 4, A Special Symposium Issue on Navajo Mortuary Practices and Beliefs, 1978, pp. 367-381
A discussion about changes from a traditional Navajo funeral towards a more Anglo-style funeral.
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War Curio

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Molly McGlennen
Atlantis, vol. 29, no. 2, [Indigenous Women: The State of Our Nations], 2005, p. 55
Presents a poem.
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Whose Bones Are They?

Articles » General
New Scientist, vol. 178, no. 2397, May 31, 2003, p. 5
Brief discussion of the issues surrounding museum ownership of bone collections.
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Wings and a Prayer

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Todd Kristensen
Canada's History, vol. 94, no. 1, Feb./Mar. 2014, pp. 29-[34]
Discusses archaeological research which indicates that the birds Beothuks hunted for food, also played a role in their mortuary customs.
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