Download or read book Solstice aligned boulder configurations in Saskatchewan written by Alice Beck Kehoe and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of eleven Saskatchewan boulder configurations examined by the authors, three were found to correlate to astronomical phenomena. Although a search for local oral traditions which might explain these associations proved largely fruitless, there was some evidence that the configurations may have functioned as memorials to dead chiefs and as year-beginning markers for past calendar keepers.

Download or read book Hare Indians and their world written by Hiroko S. Hara and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ethnographic examination of how the Hare, Northern Athapaskan speaking hunters and gatherers of the Fort Good Hope Game area in the Mackenzie River basin, view the world and their place in it.

Download or read book Music of the Netsilik Eskimo Volume 2 written by Beverley Cavanagh and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study defines the traditional styles and genres of Netsilik Inuit music and examines the extent of change which this music has undergone especially as a result of contact with European and North American music. Volume two consists of song transcriptions and commentaries.

Download or read book Practical Heiltsuk English dictionary with a grammatical introduction Volume 2 written by John C. Rath and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of four North Wakashan languages, Heiltsuk is spoken in the villages of Bella Bella and Klemtu on the British Columbia coast. This two-volume wet offers a grammatical introduction to Heiltsuk which relates the orthography to the phonetics and phonemics, outlines the morphology and syntax, and contains an approximately 9,500 entry dictionary which, in selected instances, indicates grammatical derivatives and/or examples of use as well as English glosses.

Download or read book Coast Salish gambling games written by Lynn Maranda and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines in detail, the histories and customs of Coast Salish gambling games and looks at the game structure and its attending spirit power affiliations.

Download or read book Edward Sapir s correspondence written by Louise Dallaire and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An alphabetical and chronological guide to the professional correspondence of anthropologist Edward Sapir during his tenure as Head of the Anthropology Division of the Geological Survey of Canada (1910-1925).

Download or read book Persistent ceremonialism the Plains Cree and Saulteaux written by Koozma J. Tarasoff and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taped interviews, participant observation, sketches, and photographs pertaining to the Plains Cree and Saulteaux Rain Dance and Sweat Bath Feast illustrate the important role played by the social group in the creation of identity, maintenance of stability, and continuity of Native culture.

Download or read book North West River Sheshatshit Montagnais a grammatical sketch written by Sandra Clarke and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work outlines the grammatical categories and inflections, both nominal and verbal, of the Montagnais dialect of North-West River, Labrador. The phonological system of the dialect is briefly sketched and, although the present work does not treat the derivational aspects of Montagnais morphology, certain very common derivational forms are included. A survey of the chief sentence types of the North-West River Montagnais is provided.

Download or read book Oowekeeno oral traditions as told by the Late Chief Simon Walkus Sr written by Susan Hilton and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains fifteen Oowekyala Wakashan texts originally recorded at Rivers Inlet Village on the British Columbia coast with interlinear English translations and general comments on the language and culture.

Download or read book Ethnohistoric study of eastern James Bay Cree social organization 1700 1850 written by Toby Morantz and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In seeking to examine the accommodation by this Northern Algonquian people to the fur trade, this study first outlines the historical development and ecological setting and then looks at the question of social change from the perspectives of economic adaptations, group structure, leadership and territorial organization.

Download or read book Trappers of Patuanak written by Robert Jarvenpa and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study develops an analytical framework that treats special arrangements of human populations as a fundamental form of ecological adaptation for subarctic aboriginal societies. The geographical mobility of commercial fur trappers and fishermen from the English River Chipewyan community of Patuanak, Saskatchewan is employed as a variable for explaining the organization of economic subsistence cycles and ongoing processes of settlement system change.

Download or read book Bear Lake Athapaskan kinship and task group formation written by Scott Rushforth and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the influence of bilateral kinship principles on the social organization of the Sahtúgot’ine (Bear Lake People), a Northeastern Athapaskan group. The recognition that factors other than kinship and marriage are also pertinent to an understanding of Sahtúgot’ine social organization has ramifications with respect to traditional Northeastern Athapaskan bands.

Download or read book Canoe construction in a Cree cultural tradition written by James Garth Taylor and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines Eastern Cree canoe construction from a variety of anthropological and historical perspectives. The fully detailed and illustrated technical aspects of canoe construction are combined with a description of the social and economic factors, the canoe builder’s view of these activities through myth and song and a discussion of the continuity and change in all aspects of traditional canoe construction.

Download or read book Window on the past written by Margaret Berlin Blackman and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A description of Northern and Kaigani Haida culture change as understood from a study of over two hundred late nineteenth-century photographs and relevant documentary evidence and ethnographic data.

Download or read book Musical life of the Blood Indians written by Robert Witmer and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical and ethnographic study of the dynamic musical traditions of the Blood Indians of southwestern Alberta with particular emphasis on the influence and adaptation of Euro-American culture.

Download or read book Eight Inuit myths Inuit unipkaaqtuat pingasuniarvinilit written by and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary and morphemic translations of eight Nassilingmiut (Central Arctic Inuit) myths are provided.

Download or read book Identity of the Saint Francis Indians written by Gordon M. Day and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using written records, genealogies, oral accounts, and linguistic analyses, the author attempts to link the Saint Francis Indians with their seventeenth century forebears. Despite gaps in the extant evidence, he postulates a relationship between the present population and the Sokwaki, Cowassuck, and Penacook tribes of the New Hampshire and Vermont upper Connecticut and Merrimack Valleys and, possibly, the tribes of the middle Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts and the Abenaki tribes of Maine as well.