Aspects of Inuit value socialization


Book Description

An examination of the role of play in Inuit society with respect to the creation, maintenance, and internalization of social values.




Trappers of Patuanak


Book Description

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.




Practical Heiltsuk-English dictionary with a grammatical introduction: Volume 2


Book Description

One of four North Wakashan languages, Heiltsuk is spoken in the villages of Bella Bella and Klemtu on the British Columbia coast. This two-volume wet offers a grammatical introduction to Heiltsuk which relates the orthography to the phonetics and phonemics, outlines the morphology and syntax, and contains an approximately 9,500 entry dictionary which, in selected instances, indicates grammatical derivatives and/or examples of use as well as English glosses.




Bella Coola language


Book Description

A description of the phonology, morphonology, morphology, syntax, historical, areal, and typological features of the Salish language of Bella Coola, British Columbia.




Identity of the Saint Francis Indians


Book Description

Using written records, genealogies, oral accounts, and linguistic analyses, the author attempts to link the Saint Francis Indians with their seventeenth century forebears. Despite gaps in the extant evidence, he postulates a relationship between the present population and the Sokwaki, Cowassuck, and Penacook tribes of the New Hampshire and Vermont upper Connecticut and Merrimack Valleys and, possibly, the tribes of the middle Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts and the Abenaki tribes of Maine as well.




Micmac lexicon


Book Description

This volume consists of a Micmac lexicon formulated on the basis of textual and anecdotal references collected over a quarter of a century from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Québec. It includes almost 5,500 Micmac words and their English equivalents and an exhaustive English key-word index.




Consciousness and inquiry


Book Description

The papers in this volume were prepared for Consciousness and Inquiry, a conference jointly sponsored by the National Museum of Man and the Canadian Ethnology Society, and held in London, Ontario in 1981. The papers focus on interests and concerns which characterize contemporary Canadian ethnology.




Kyuquot way


Book Description

This volume describes a modern Nootka community from a historical perspective. Despite evidence of significant change over time with respect to material culture, technology, and political institutions, considerable continuity exists insofar as codes of social interaction, community values and ideals are concerned.




Changing economic roles for Micmac men and women


Book Description

This study examines the alteration and adaptation of Micmac male and female roles in Nova Scotia over a period of four hundred years in the context of the broader changes which their society experienced as it interacted with the dominant European culture.




Persistent ceremonialism: the Plains Cree and Saulteaux


Book Description

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.