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These Tales of Extraordinary Experience detail encounters with spirit-beings and other supernatural occurrences, as related by the Nuu-Chah-Nulth of Vancouver Island’s west coast. They were recorded primarily in the area of Port Alberni between 1910 and 1923 by the...
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Mercury-Mercure
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2000-01-01
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This book presents a unique account of crow charter stories by Tommy McGinty, a man from inland First Nations of northwestern Canada. McGinty’s use of language differs dramatically from recorded versions by women storytellers a generation older. A discussion on the...
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Mercury-Mercure
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1999-01-01
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During the 1920s Harlan I. Smith, an archaeologist with the National Museums of Canada, documented plant and animal knowledge and use among the Gitksan, Nuxalk and Ulkatcho Carrier of British Columbia. Smith’s work is the earliest, relatively comprehensive...
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Mercury-Mercure
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1997-01-01
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"From diversity comes strength and wisdom": this was the guiding principle for selecting the articles in this collection. Because there is no single voice, identity, history, or cultural experience that represents the women of the First Nations, a realistic picture will...
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University of Manitoba Press
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1996-08-15
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First published in French in Recherches amérindiennes au Québec in 1993, this collection of essays aims to provide a better understanding of the Algonquin people. The nine contributors to the book deal with topics ranging from prehistory, historical narratives, social...
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Mercury-Mercure
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1996-01-01
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This study looks at the present-day design, production, and ornamentation of moccasins by the women on the Janvier Reserve at Chard, northern Alberta. The author compares those made today with moccasins produced before the Second World War. Published in English.
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Mercury-Mercure
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1994-01-01
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This book is published in memory of Peter Lewis Paul, O.C., LL.D. It contains copies of obituaries, an autobiography and tributes to Dr. Paul by his friends. It will be of interest to those who admire the Maliseet people, their culture and their traditions, which were...
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Mercury-Mercure
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1993-01-01
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These are a collection of 20 stories, dictated in 1941 to Bloomfield's linguistics class, edited from manuscripts now in the National Anthropological Archives at the Smithsonian Institution, and published for the first time. In Ojibwe, with English translations by...
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University of Manitoba Press
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1991-02-01
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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.
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Mercury-Mercure
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1991-01-01
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Much has been written about the history and the people of northern Manitoba, but until now this body of work has not been readily accessible to the researcher or teacher. This bibliography identifies published sources, such as books and magazine and journal articles, as...
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University of Manitoba Press
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1991-01-01
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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.
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Mercury-Mercure
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1991-01-01
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This collection of photographs, taken between 1920 and 1924, depicts the Bella Coola Valley, and the Nuxalk, Chilcotin and Carrier peoples.Published in English.
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Mercury-Mercure
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1991-01-01
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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.
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Mercury-Mercure
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1991-01-01
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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...
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Mercury-Mercure
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1991-01-01
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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....
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Mercury-Mercure
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1991-01-01
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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...
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Mercury-Mercure
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1990-01-01
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Narratives from different genres of Rock Cree oral literature in northwestern Manitoba, together with interpretive and comparative commentary are presented. Published in English.
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Mercury-Mercure
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1989-01-01
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Twelve papers of a 1982 conference brought together anthropologists, linguists and educators with a common interest in Native language use and non-verbal communications. Their findings will be of interest to those concerned with Native interactions between Natives and...
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Mercury-Mercure
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1988-01-01
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This study analyses the factors that influence the production of kamik (skin boots) in Arctic Bay and describes the various techniques used in the preparation of the pelts and the construction of the boots.Published in English.
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Mercury-Mercure
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1987-01-01
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This catalogue features photographs of the Nass River and the Nishga people taken between 1900 and 1950. Most of the collection represents the ethnographic fieldwork done by Marius Barbeau between 1927 and 1929. Published in English.
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Mercury-Mercure
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1987-01-01
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