Author : Wendy Bross. Stuart
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 44,34 MB
Release : 1972-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1772821659
Study of the particular variations of the slahal game and the music which accompanies it. Slahal is an aboriginal game played on the Northwest coast among Salish peoples in British Columbia and the state of Washington.
Author : Lynn Maranda
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 19,67 MB
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1772822566
This study examines in detail, the histories and customs of Coast Salish gambling games and looks at the game structure and its attending spirit power affiliations.
Author : Richard Keeling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 41,87 MB
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 1135503095
First Published in 1997. The present volume contains references and descriptive annotations for 1,497 sources on North American Indian and Eskimo music. As conceived here, the subject encompasses works on dance, ritual, and other aspects of religion or culture related to music, and selected "classic" recordings have also been included. The coverage is equally broad in other respects, including writings in several different languages and spanning a chronological period from 1535 to 1995. The book is intended as a reference tool for researchers, teachers, and college students. With their needs in mind, the sources are arranged in ten sections by culture area, and the introduction includes a general history of research. Finally, there are also indices by author, tribe, and subject.
Author : Anton F. Kolstee
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 30,24 MB
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1772822469
This paper describes the ethnographic context and analyses the structural characteristics of Bella Coola songs. Seventy-three original transcriptions which encompass a broad spectrum of Bella Coola ceremonial and non-ceremonial repertoires are included.
Author : Eric P. Hamp
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 13,52 MB
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1772822132
Eric P. Hamp reconsiders the phonological features of the Proto-Algonquian terms for “sun” and “day” and offers a new reconstruction. Robert Howren provides a classic phonemic description of Dogrib phonology, examining selected phonological features from the perspective of generative phonological theory. Brenda M. Lowery discusses Blackfoot phonology. Richard Walker continues the work of Father A. G. Morice in his study Central Carrier phonemics. Quindel King contributes a paper on the Chilcotin language.
Author : G. L. Piggot
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,81 MB
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1772822531
This Ojibwa lexicon provides data on the geographical distribution and historical development of a variety of Ojibwa dialects. As many features of Ojibwa words are indicated by their endings, a reverse version, sorted right-to-left, is included.
Author : David B. Quinn
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 15,75 MB
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1772822388
This guide attempts to enumerate the printed and manuscript sources for northeastern North American ethnography from the earliest discoveries by Europeans down to the time of the effective establishment of European settlements in the area and also to indicate briefly the content of these sources and the features of the Amerindian societies which they record.
Author : Julie Cruikshank
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 15,7 MB
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1772822191
Biographical sketches of seven Athapaskan women residing in the Yukon are provided together with a selection of legends and a discussion of changes in the lives of Athapaskan women in the twentieth century.
Author : Gaby Pelletier
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 42,39 MB
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1772822485
Once an integral feature of the culture and economy of the St. Francis Abenaki at Odanak, splint basketry has become an activity of the elderly. This volume examines the reasons for this change as indicated by alterations to basketry style and construction between 1880 and the present and the influence of historical events.
Author : Meredith Jean Black
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 29,74 MB
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1772822272
A compilation of published ethnobotanical data pertaining to all of the Algonkian speaking peoples of eastern North America and field data concerning the Algonquin bands of the Ottawa River drainage and the Cree bands of the St. Maurice drainage of western Quebec. These data help illuminate past subsistence patterns, the seasonal movements of the Algonquin, and the relationship between Algonquin bands and other Algonkian speakers. They also indicate that the Algonquin previously enjoyed a subarctic subsistence orientation similar to that of the Cree and other northerners in contrast to their Iroquoian neighbours thus necessitating a redefinition of the eastern subarctic culture area.
