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Book The Salish People  The Sechelt and the southeastern tribes of Vancouver Island

Download or read book The Salish People The Sechelt and the southeastern tribes of Vancouver Island written by Charles Hill-Tout and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume I of The Salish People deals with the people of the Thompson and Okanagan. It includes stories told to Charles Hill-Tout by Chief Mischelle of Lytton in 1896. The introduction provides biographical sketches of the two men who make this collaboration the remarkable document it is: Hill-Tout, the self-educated and dedicated ethnologist, newly arrived from England, and Chief Mischelle of Lytton, one of the most talented and informed people that a beginning field worker could hope to meet.

Book The Salish People

Download or read book The Salish People written by Charles Hill-Tout and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sechelt and southeastern tribes of Vancouver Is.

Book The Salish People  The mainland Halkomelem

Download or read book The Salish People The mainland Halkomelem written by Charles Hill-Tout and published by Salish People. This book was released on 1978 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of the people of the Fraser Valley from Vancouver to Chilliwack, with the earliest account of BC archaeological sites.

Book  In vain I tried to tell you

Download or read book In vain I tried to tell you written by Dell Hymes and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Introduction: This book is . . . devoted to the first literature of North America, that of the American Indians, or Native Americans. The texts are from the North Pacific Coast, because that is where I am from, and those are the materials I know best. The purpose is general: All traditional American Indian verbal art requires attention of this kind if we are to comprehend what it is and says. There is linguistics in this book, and that will put some people off. ''Too technical," they will say. Perhaps such people would be amused to know that many linguists will not regard the work as linguistics. "Not theoretical," they will say, meaning not part of a certain school of grammar. And many folklorists and anthropologists are likely to say, "too linguistic" and "too literary" both, whereas professors of literature are likely to say, "anthropological" or "folklore," not "literature" at all. But there is no help for it. As with Beowulf and The Tale of Genji, the material requires some understanding of a way of life. Within that way of life, it has in part a role that in English can only be called that of "literature." Within that way of life, and now, I hope, within others, it offers some of the rewards and joys of literature. And if linguistics is the study of language, not grammar alone, then the study of these materials adds to what is known about language.

Book The Salish People  The Squamish and the Lilloet

Download or read book The Salish People The Squamish and the Lilloet written by Charles Hill-Tout and published by Salish People. This book was released on 1978 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the Origin Myth as recounted by a storyteller whose mother saw Captain Vancouver sail into Howe Sound in 1792.

Book Rewriting Marpole

    Book Details:
  • Author : Terence N. Clark
  • Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
  • Release : 2013-03-30
  • ISBN : 0776620835
  • Pages : 285 pages

Download or read book Rewriting Marpole written by Terence N. Clark and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2013-03-30 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines prehistoric culture change in the Gulf of Georgia region of the northwest coast of North America during the Locarno Beach (3500–1100 BP) and Marpole (2000–1100 BP) periods. The Marpole culture has traditionally been seen to possess all the traits associated with complex hunter-gatherers on the northwest coast (hereditary inequality, multi-family housing, storage-based economies, resource ownership, wealth accumulation, etc.) while the Locarno Beach culture has not. This research examined artifact and faunal assemblages as well as data for art and mortuary architecture from a total of 164 Gulf of Georgia archaeological site components. Geographic location and ethnographic language distribution were also compared to the archaeological data. Analysis was undertaken using Integrative Distance Analysis (IDA), a new statistical model developed in the course of this research. Results indicated that Marpole culture was not a regional phenomenon, but much more spatially and temporally discrete than previously thought. Artifactual assemblages identified as Marpole were restricted to the areas of the Fraser River, northern Gulf Islands and portions of Vancouver Island. In contrast, the ethnographic territory of the Straits Salish showed no sign of Marpole culture, but rather a presence of Late Locarno Beach culture. The pattern found in artifacts was replicated in the distribution of art and mortuary architecture variation suggesting the cultural differences between Marpole and Late Locarno Beach cultures was real and not merely a statistical anomaly.

Book A Native American Encyclopedia

Download or read book A Native American Encyclopedia written by Barry Pritzker and published by Oxford : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dispelling myths, answering questions, and stimulating thoughtful avenues for further inquiry, this highly absorbing reference provides a wealth of specific information about over 200 North American Indian groups in Canada and the United States. Readers will easily access important historical and contemporary facts about everything from notable leaders and relations with non-natives to customs, dress, dwellings, weapons, government, and religion. This book is at once exhaustive and captivating, covering myriad aspects of a people spread across a continent. Divided into ten geographic areas for easy reference, this work illustrates each Native American group in careful detail. Listed alphabetically, starting with the tribal name, translation, origin, and definition, each entry includes significant facts about the group's location and population, as well as impressive accounts of the group's history and culture. Bringing entries up-to-date, Barry Pritzker also presents current information on each group's government, economy, legal status, and land holdings. Whether interpreting the term "tribe" (many traditional Native American groups were not tribes at all but more like extended families) or describing how a Shoshone woman served as a guide on the Lewis and Clark expedition, Pritzker always presents the material in a clear and lively manner. In light of past and ongoing injustices and the momentum of Indian and Inuit self-determination movements, an understanding of Native American cultures as well as their contributions to contemporary society becomes increasingly important. A magnificent resource, this book liberally provides the essential information necessary to better grasp the history and cultures of North American Indians.

Book The Wsanec and Their Neighbours

    Book Details:
  • Author : Chief of the Anthropological Division Diamond Jenness
  • Publisher : Rock's Mills Press
  • Release : 2016-10-01
  • ISBN : 9781772440362
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Wsanec and Their Neighbours written by Chief of the Anthropological Division Diamond Jenness and published by Rock's Mills Press. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1935, National Museum of Canada anthropologist Diamond Jenness did several months of fieldwork with the Coast Salish peoples of southwestern Vancouver Island. His main focus was the WSANEC, then a little-known group whose reserves lay on the Saanich Peninsula, a short distance from Victoria. Here, and later in neighbouring areas, local elders shared with him their knowledge of the "old ways," a mode of living they all knew at first-hand in their younger days. Covering a wide array of subjects, everything from fishing practices and marriage customs to conceptions of the natural world around them, the elders filled Jenness' notebooks with the substance of what stood to become a major contribution to the growing literature on the indigenous peoples of Canada's Pacific northwest. But when World War II intervened and he was called away to other duties, his partly-finished manuscript-The Saanich Indians of Vancouver Island-was set aside, the only of his many museum-sponsored ethnographic researches to remain unpublished in his lifetime. Now, with publication of The WSANEC and their Neighbours, the words and insights of those elders, written down eighty years ago, are available to a general readership for the first time. Drawing on Jenness' notes, editor Barnett Richling has completed the book as originally planned, supplementing the material with annotations, illustrations, and a collection of Salish myths and legends the anthropologist recorded during the same field trip. The result is a highly readable account, a blend of ethnography and oral history favouring description over analysis, and plain language over jargon. This body of WSANEC traditional knowledge comprises a valuable addition to scholarship on Coast Salish peoples, and also forms an excellent companion piece to Richling's recent edition of Jenness' Three Athapaskan Ethnographies.

Book Subject Catalog

Download or read book Subject Catalog written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book America  History and Life

Download or read book America History and Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 1368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes information abstracted from over 2,000 journals published worldwide.

Book Native Americans  2 volumes

Download or read book Native Americans 2 volumes written by Barry M. Pritzker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 887 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark two volume source ranks as one of the field's most comprehensive guides to Native American studies, offering historical, cultural, and modern reference, supporting a complete range of research. The history, culture, and present state of Native America is revealed, explored, and explained in this, the most comprehensive reference work on the indigenous peoples of North America ever assembled. Anyone and everyone interested in Native Americans will find Native Americans indispensable. Systematically presenting historical and modern data for all known Native American groups in Canada and the United States, the different groups are listed alphabetically within 10 culture areas. The volumes are richly illustrated and include photos and drawings, culture area and tribal location maps, a master bibliography, bibliographic citations for each tribal entry, a glossary, and a subject index.

Book Coast Salish  Their Art  Culture and Legends

Download or read book Coast Salish Their Art Culture and Legends written by Reg Ashwell and published by Saanichton, B.C. : Hancock House. This book was released on 1978 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the origins and culture of the Coast Salish Indians.

Book Indians of the Urban Northwest

Download or read book Indians of the Urban Northwest written by Marian Wesley Smith and published by New York : AMS Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliographic Guide to North American History

Download or read book Bibliographic Guide to North American History written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Native Americans

Download or read book Native Americans written by Frederick E. Hoxie and published by Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annoteret bibliografi om de nordamerikanske indianere.

Book National Union Catalog

Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries for maps and atlases.