Author : Alice Beck Kehoe
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 22,81 MB
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1772822116
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.
Author : Koozma J. Tarasoff
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,22 MB
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1772822310
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.
Author : Sandra Clarke
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 14,62 MB
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1772822426
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.
Author : Susan Hilton
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 28,14 MB
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1772822477
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.
Author : Toby Morantz
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 34,60 MB
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1772822515
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.
Author : Robert Jarvenpa
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,5 MB
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1772822299
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.
Author : Scott Rushforth
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,86 MB
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1772822590
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.
Author : James Garth Taylor
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 31,9 MB
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1772822264
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.
Author : Margaret Berlin Blackman
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 21,6 MB
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1772822353
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.
Author : Robert Witmer
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 36,77 MB
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1772822493
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.
