Shamans

Looks at a study of Cree children showing their aversion to the television show The Muppets. Two reasons that the Cree dislike the program are their beliefs towards the shaman's relationship to certain animals and the tendency of First Nations to seek out practical applications instead of fantasy in dealing with issues.

Discusses aspects of shamanism, music and dance as aspects of healing.

Looks at the work of an artist and storyteller. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 24.

Comments on naming traditions.

Website with links to: exhibition, interviews, timeline, lesson plans and other resources.

Report includes the following papers: Report of the Director by J. W. Powell Ethnological Results of the Point Barrow Expedition by John Murdoch The Medicine-Men of the Apache by John G. Bourke

Focuses on the peoples of the northern area of the Northwest Coast including Alaska, Washington, Oregon and British Columbia. Chapter from Volume 2 of Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology: Health and Illness in the World's Cultures edited by Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember.

Anthropology and Sociology Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 1975.

Author tries to look beyond the public facade the famous Ojibway painter presented to the world.

Provides curriculum to examine and interpret the life and times of Norval Morrisseau through dance, drama, music and visual arts experiences.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 20 (pp1-16).

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--Tufts University, 2011. Discusses works by Susan Power, James Welch, Sherman Alexie, Anna Lee Walters, Louis Owens, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Louise Erdrich.

Introduces shamans and shamanism followed by the first of a series of eight short stories.

Brief interview with a carver who likes to make transformation or shamanism themed carvings. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 26.

Looks at the the perception that shaminism was in decline and examines testimonies of elders that contradict that idea.

Articles cover five themes: Arctic cosmologies, beliefs, art and shamanism; Arctic lands, waters, and environment; Indigenous rights and customary law; topics for future teaching.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 32, (pp185-252).

Discussion of a workshop held to record the views of Inuit elders on social control and shamanism.

Consists of an interview where she gives an account of a wolf killing the pet dog when she was a child.

Book review of: The Flying Tiger: Women Shamans and Storytellers of the Amur by Kira Van Deusen. Review in French.

Discusses the discovery, use, and role of South-Saami shaman drums found in Norway.

Religious Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Ottawa, 1996.

Forms part of Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, v. 25 (p.309-444).

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol.4, (pp319-356).

Presents examples gathered by various methods including firsthand and controlled observations, studies and experiments

Reflects on changes that have taken place since the publication of his essay Rise of the White Shaman and asserts that medicine makers still exist in the American Indian community, although they may not ostensibly resemble their earlier, traditional counterparts. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Robert Goodvoice tells a story about the journey of a group of Sioux from the United States to Canada, through Portage la Prairie, Manitoba to Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. He tells of a settlement of the Wahpaton (Round Plain) Reserve in Saskatchewan and the division of the Sioux tribe. He also talks about Indian medicine and curing practices and reflects on the loss of knowledge of the old ways.

He tells a story about the origins of the Dakota (Sioux) guardian spirit and his powers; and how Iktomi differs from the equivalent Cree spirit power (Wisakedjak).

He describes the movement of the Dakota Sioux to Canada. He also mentions various plants used for medicine

Using Shamanism as the interpretative framework has allowed academics "to "other" pre-Columbian peoples by portraying them as steeped in magic and the spiritual."

Describes an encounter with a sasquatch.Description of the Hamatsa dance ceremony.

Looks at the loss of Sámi traditional worldview, knowledge, and cultural practices due to the conquest by the Lutheran Church of the Sámi.

This pamphlet describes the religious beliefs of Aboriginals in Saskatchewan, incorporating rituals, shamans and sun dances in the days before contact with modern beliefs that include Christianity.

Book review of: The Sea Woman by Frédéric Laugrand and Jarich Oosten.

Profile of artist Jane Ash Poitras.

Anthropology and Sociology (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 1983.

Consists of an interview with George First Rider where he tells the story of a medicine man named Bear Hat (later renamed Curlew). He tells how Bear Hat was revived after serious injury and how Bear Hat healed a young man wounded in a battle.

Discussion includes seizures, unconscious nervous afflictions, shamanic possession, animal metamorphosis, connection with the sky world and ritual homosexuality.

Discussion of various aspects of altered states of consciousness (ASCs) including types, stimulus situations and the physiology associated with them.

Examination of Elders' understandings of pre-existing spirituality that missionaries had extensively suppressed by the 1930s.

Master of Music Therapy Thesis, Arts and Science (M.A.)--British Columbia Open University, Burnaby, 1998.

Explains the connection between Sami shamanism and rock art at Hossa on Lake Somerö in northern Karelia.

Argues that the parallels drawn between shamanism and schizophrenia are unfounded.

Exhibition review from the Carleton University Art Gallery, 1995 curated by Rose Ann Hoffenberg. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 48.

Book review of: Shamanism in North America by Norman Bancroft Hunt.

American Culture Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Michigan, 1997.

Consists of an interview with George First Rider where he tells the story of a boy given supernatural powers by the bears and of his subsequent success as a healer of his own wounds and those of other people or animals.