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This selection of 175 Icelandic-Canadian oral narratives contains folktales, legends, humorous anecdotes, tall tales, and simple accounts of daily events. The first 51 narratives are grounded in old-country experiences and the remainder reflect immigrant life in Canada....
A re-examination of the hypothesis of a historic migration of the Western Cree resulting from the introduction of the fur trade. Published in English.
This collection of photographs, taken between 1920 and 1924, depicts the Bella Coola Valley, and the Nuxalk, Chilcotin and Carrier peoples.Published in English.
This study offers a detailed description of historical and contemporary skin clothing production techniques used by Inuit in Coppermine, Bathurst Inlet, Cambridge Bay and Arviat. Published in English.
The first two papers describe King Island and North Baffin kayaks, their construction and their equipment. Other articles are on kayak design variation, Greenland kayaks, “kayak fear”, Canadian revival and the fascinating Aleut designs. All papers are illustrated and...
The papers in this volume represent ethnohistorical research by fifteen scholars on North American Native peoples. They were presented at the Second Laurier Conference on Ethnohistory and Ethnology, held at Huron College, University of Western Ontario, May 11-13, 1983....
This semantically classified list includes over 2,800 words in the Saanich dialect of North Straits Salish, an Amerindian language spoken on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Published in English.
Two studies in salvage ethnology are detailed, one focusing on Barkley Sound peoples and their territories, the other on peoples to the southeast of Barkley Sound.Published in English.
In 1926 Diamond Jenness began the first systematic archaeological work in Alaska at Cape Prince of Wales and Little Diomede Island on Bering Strait. This resulted in the first identification of Old Bering Sea culture and determined the stratigraphic position of Thule...
This collection of Micmac texts includes an oral history of the arrival of the first Europeans on the shores of Cape Breton, a ghost story and a tale of the hero Gluscap. Published in English.
This study provides a cultural analysis of power and performance in Gros Ventre war expedition songs. Symbolic content of Gros Ventre myth and ritual is elicited as a tool for analyzing particular social relationships that motivate war expeditions as action and value....
This volume presents a description of the phonology and morphology of the Samish dialect of the Straits Salish language, together with a text and word list, classified by semantic domain, of the same language. The preface discusses the precarious survival of this...
This volume portrays aspects of Canadian social history through the presentation of artifacts from the exhibition “A Coat of Many Colours: Two Centuries of Jewish Life in Canada”. The experiences of Jewish Canadians as recorded in the artifact labels poignantly...
This dictionary lists in alphabetical order over 2,000 Nuxalk morphemes, as well as sample words and sentences, gathered by the author at Bella Coola, British Columbia, between 1972 and 1983. The morphemes are numbered, and reference is frequently made to the author’s...
This study examines material from four archaeological sites revealing the existence of a previously unrecognized late prehistoric/early historic Inuit society living in Franklin Bay, in the western Canadian Arctic. These people, the Iglulualumiut, had a culture closely...
A discussion of the archaeological research in the Bache Peninsula region of eastern Ellesmere Island, Northwest Territories which has produced a substantial amount of data relating to this poorly defined phase of Thule culture. Published in English.
An incisive report on test excavations conducted by archaeologists at the Kitwanga Fort site in British Columbia. Evidence from the excavations, analysis of artifacts and archaeological testing of the legendary accounts of the warrior chief, Nekt, constitute an...
Narratives from different genres of Rock Cree oral literature in northwestern Manitoba, together with interpretive and comparative commentary are presented. Published in English.
New directions in museum programming are presented in 13 papers representing a variety of perspectives that are guiding the transformation of Canada’s national museums in preparation for the twenty-first century. Bilingual Edition.
A report on the excavation and analysis of the Kugaluk site, a small historic Inuit site located near the outlet of the Eskimo Lakes, in the western Canadian Arctic, which greatly expands our present understanding of the Nuvorugmiut, and by extension the Mackenzie Inuit...
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