Shamans

A conference where elders discuss the philosophy and practice of traditional medicine. Stress role of elders in passing on this tradition. Transcribed by Joanne Greenwood.

A conference about prophecies and the recovery of traditional values, the role of Elders in the community, and the philosophy and practice of traditional medicine.

A discussion about the construction of log and birch canoes ; the tuberculosis epidemic ; the effects of non-Indians on Indian life style : spiritual values, hunting; fishing; land use, etc.

Elders discuss traditional religion, it's relationship to Christian religions and its place in traditional healingpractices.

Elders stress the importance of tradition and, in particular, the religious and medical traditions of the Indian people.Accounts of two visits to the world of the dead.

A conference discussing comparison of Indian and Christian religions and religious ceremonies, traditional songs and dances, and history of Europeans in North America from the Indian viewpoint.

Bob Black Plume talks about the various Blood Societies.

Interview includes stories about the power of the medicine man and the abilities to foretell the future. It also includes information regarding traditional attitudes toward education, marriage and lifestyle.

Discusses the Sámi poem, Beaivi, Áhčážan (The Sun, My Father) by poet Nils-Aslak Valkeapää (Áillohaš).

Religious Studies and Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2003.

Consists of an interview where he tells of legends concerning the arrival of white men in North America; Parallels to the Norse (Viking) sagas -- (Is this possibly an example of the oral tradition presenting the Indian view early Viking settlement?). He tells of prophecies concerning the arrival of white men and the eventual return of Indian ways; describes the role of women in pre-Columbian America; and gives accounts of native medical practices and the linguistic evolution.

Interview with Alootook Ipellie about shamanism, his works, and walking an invisible border.

Looks at a Teton Sioux knowledge tradition, heyoka and connections to Indigenous healing practices and how it differs from western therapeutic knowledge in psychology.

Interview includes stories of traditional life including ceremonies, dances, burials, hunting, and spirits.

Interview includes stories about a ghost priest and a non-existent camp. Also included is a story of how a lame boy's skill as a medicine man won him a chieftainship and a wife.

Interview with Antoine Lonesinger, who tells stories of escapes from Blackfoot and the use of spirits and evil powers.

Interview includes stories of attacks on women by Blackfoot and Cree raiders. It also includes the story of the acquisition of the Sioux Dance (or Grass Dance) from the bone grass spirits.

Interview includes the stories of a raid on the Blackfoot and the struggle for supremacy between two medicine men. (Transcribed by J. Greenwood)

Arsene Fontaine describes a curing by a medicine man and a brief description of how to make a canoe. She also gives a description of transportation by dog team.

Sociology and Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 1992.

Study demonstrates many similarities between artists and Shamans.

Bill Wilson was born in Lac La Biche, Alberta in 1934 and raised by Indian people west of Calgary. His father was 3/4 Sioux from the U.S. but his parents broke up when he was little. He discusses his negative attitude toward the RCMP.

Curatorial notes for an exhibition of the same name mounted at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2002. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 40.

Reviews of 10 books: Handbook for Aboriginal and Islander History edited by Diane Barwick, Michael Mace and Tom Stannage. The Ballad of Alice of Alice Moonchild...and Others by Aleata E. Blythe. My Spirit Soars by Chief Dan George and Helmut Hirnschall. Indian Healing: Shamanic Ceremonialism in the Pacific Northwest Today by Wolfgang G. Jilek. Métis Land Rights in Alberta: A Political History by Joe Sawchuk, Pat Sawchuk and Theresa Ferguson. Long Lance, The True Story of an Impostor by Donald B.

Forms part of Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, v.52 (p.219-588).

Forms part of Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, v. 41 (p. [1]-225).

Consists of an interview where he gives an account of the migration of the Potawatomi Indians and a general description of reserve life; an account of the importance of midwives and a brief description of naming ceremonies; and tells a story about an old man who remembered seeing the Chicago fire.

Investigates Catholicism and its relationship and conflict with traditional shamans. It looks at the spiritual failure of this European religion among the Ojibwa nations.

Interview of Charlie Chief who discusses the a Grass Dance, Round Dance and Sioux Dance (including songs). Also included are songs. The discusses the difference between old and new ways. Alphonse Littlepoplar is the intterpreter

An interview that describes some boyhood memories. The interviewee also describes two dances, the Give Away and Wolf Feast ceremonies.

Clinical Psychology Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Union Institute, 1997.

Describes the oral tradition of predictions by shamans about the transformations that would take place with the arrival of the Europeans.

Consists of an interview where Clarence Joe speaks of the conversion of the Sechelt Indians to Roman Catholicism and he discusses at various points the industry and initiative of the Sechelt Indians.

Booklet relating to the coast Salish people of coastal British Columbia, describing various aspects of Coast Salish culture such as daily subsistence, religion, shamanism, family life and legends.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Barbara, 2000.

Interview with a participating sculptor of the largest Inuit commission, in 1990. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 7.

Consists of an interview about a creation myth and some healing practices of medicine men.

Looks at conjuring rites among the Kutenai, Blackfoot, Kiowa, Assiniboine, Gros Ventre, Cheyenne and Plains Cree.

Cultural Anthropology, Social and Behavioural Sciences Thesis (Ph.D.)-- University of Leiden, 2007.

Mouse over images to link to: household life (includes clothing, cooking, preserving food, etc.), village information (homes), resource gathering, spirituality (includes ceremonies, medicine man), stages of life and transportation.

Book review of: A Cosmos in Stone by J. David Lewis-Williams. Review located by scrolling to page 265.

Discussion by Elders who express regrets at loss of traditional customs and values and desire a return of schools on reserves ; a need to preserve Indian ceremonies and Indian medicines ; concerns about problems with alcohol recur throughout.

Book review of: Cry of the Eagle by David Young, Grant Ingram, Lise Swartz.

Examination of a Hudson Bay journal entry about the treatment for illness and death of Barbue in the summer of 1828 at Fort Good Hope.

Transformative Learning and Change Thesis (Ph.D.)--California Institute of Integral Studies, 2012.

Comparative study of some aspects of shamanic drug use for therapeutic mind-expansion and issues in modern drug addictions and dependencies.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Montana, 2011.

Religious Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Ottawa, 1991.

American Indian Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Arizona, 1993. Focuses on works by Leslie Silko, Scott Momaday, Gerald Vizenor and Louis Erdrich.