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Book The Tsimshian

    Book Details:
  • Author : Margaret Seguin
  • Publisher : UBC Press
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9780774804738
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book The Tsimshian written by Margaret Seguin and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines Tsimshian culture from the prehistoric period to the recent past and includes contributions from such diverse perspectives as archaeology, linguistics, and social anthropology. The contributors demonstrate a balance between current fieldwork and careful archival analysis, as they build on the voluminous materials that are a legacy of the scholarship of such major figures as Boas, Barbeau, Tate, and Garfield. The book includes chapters on the crest system and participation of the Tsimshian in the 'non-Native' economy of the region and introduces much original material on shamanism, basket making, and feasting.

Book The Tsimshian Indians and Their Arts

Download or read book The Tsimshian Indians and Their Arts written by Viola Edmundson Garfield and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Indians in the Marketplace

Download or read book American Indians in the Marketplace written by Brian C. Hosmer and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although it is usually assumed that Native Americans have lost their cultural identity through modernization, some peoples have proved otherwise. Brian Hosmer explores what happened when cultural identity and economic opportunity converged among two Native American communities that used community-based industries to both generate income and sustain their cultures. Comparing a lumber business run by the Menominees of Wisconsin and a salmon cannery established by British Columbian and Alaskan Tsimshian communities known as Metlakatla, Hosmer reveals how each tribe responded to market and political forces over fifty years. Hosmer's innovative ethnohistory recounts how these Indians used the marketplace to maintain their distinctiveness to a far greater extent than those who became wage earners in the white man's world. Hosmer shows that by selectively incorporating elements of American capitalism into their cultural lives, the Menominees and Metlakatlans came to view modernization less as a threat to their tribal life than as a means for maintaining their independence. These tribes embraced the same market accused of hastening the demise of native societies and became comparatively successful in American terms even as they both honored fundamental values and forged new cultural identities. Over time, these peoples came to understand how the market worked, recognized that the broader economy operated according to market principles, and learned how to adjust to it. Hosmer reveals how their strategies of "purposeful modernization" brought relative economic independence and sometimes the respect and cooperation of local and federal governments, how it helped chart a middle course between unchecked individuality and a communal ethos that might stifle economic development, and how economic development and cultural values ultimately affected one another. American Indians in the Marketplace is a story of adaptation that acknowledges the hardship and suffering common to most Indian-white contact while emphasizing the benefits of selective modernization accompanied by a constant re-invention of tradition. It questions the victim thesis of Native American history and shows that native peoples can meet the challenges of surviving in the larger world.

Book Library of Congress Subject Headings

Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 1752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Library of Congress Subject Headings

Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 1662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hearings  Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs

Download or read book Hearings Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 1320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Inclusion of Alaska lands in national park  forest  wildlife refuge  and wild and scenic rivers systems

Download or read book Inclusion of Alaska lands in national park forest wildlife refuge and wild and scenic rivers systems written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on General Oversight and Alaska Lands and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Native People  Native Lands

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bruce Alden Cox
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 1988
  • ISBN : 0886290627
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book Native People Native Lands written by Bruce Alden Cox and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1988 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of timely essays by Canadian scholars explores the fundamental link between the development of aboriginal culture and economic patterns. The contributors draw on original research to discuss Megaprojects in the North, the changing role of native women, reserves and devices for assimilation, the rebirth of the Canadian Metis, aboriginal rights in Newfoundland, the role of slave-raiding, and epidemics and firearms in native history.

Book Consolidating Alaska Natives Governing Bodies

Download or read book Consolidating Alaska Natives Governing Bodies written by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Indian Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Tsimshian Indians and Their Arts

Download or read book The Tsimshian Indians and Their Arts written by Viola Edmundson Garfield and published by Seattle : University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes written by Carl Waldman and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, illustrated encyclopedia which provides information on over 150 native tribes of North America, including prehistoric peoples.

Book The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal

Download or read book The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book British Columbia Place Names

Download or read book British Columbia Place Names written by G.P. (Philip) V. Akrigg and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elephant Crossing. Houdini Needles. Miniskirt, Tickletoeteaser Tower, and Why Not Mountain. These are just some of the many names of places, rivers, mountains, and lakes that you will come across in the newest edition of British Columbia Place Names. This classic which, in its various editions, has sold over 29,000 copies, covers about 2,500 geographical features, cities, towns, and smaller communities in the province. The book abounds with fascinating historical facts, stories, and remarkable characters involved with the names of towns, cities, rivers, lakes, mountains, and islands. The selection was determined by the geographical importance of the feature as well as story of the naming. In the introduction the authors deal with the stages by which B.C. acquired its place names, the history of research into those names, and the categories into which they fall. The latter range from the honorific and commemorative to the comic and disrespectful. Aboriginal names receive particular attention. The location of each place is clearly indicated and the text is accompanied by detailed maps. Brief biographical accounts of persons with places named after them as well as an abundance of anecdotes make this a fascinating book for browsers and an invaluable resource for historians.

Book Thesis and dissertation titles and abstracts on the anthropology of Canadian Indians  Inuit and Metis from Canadian universities

Download or read book Thesis and dissertation titles and abstracts on the anthropology of Canadian Indians Inuit and Metis from Canadian universities written by René R. Gadacz and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstracts of Master’s and Doctoral thesis completed at Canadian universities between 1970-1982 dealing with ethnographic, archaeological, linguistic, and physical anthropological topics relevant to Canada’s Native peoples.

Book Tales of Ghosts

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  • Author : Ronald William Hawker
  • Publisher : UBC Press
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780774809559
  • Pages : 252 pages

Download or read book Tales of Ghosts written by Ronald William Hawker and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ronald Hawker's insightful examination focuses on the complex functions that Northwest Coast objects, such as the totem pole and ceremonial masks produced between 1922 and 1961. He demonstrates how these objects asserted the integrity and meaningfulness of First Nations identities, while simultaneously resisting the intent and effects of assimilation enforced by the Canadian government's denial of land claims, its ban of the potlatch, and its support of assimilationist education.

Book House documents

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1895
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 536 pages

Download or read book House documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: