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Author: Jean L. Briggs
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 1979-01-01
Total Pages: 71
ISBN-13: 1772822183
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn examination of the role of play in Inuit society with respect to the creation, maintenance, and internalization of social values.
Author: John C. Rath
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 1981-01-01
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 177282237X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne 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.
Author: H. F. Nater
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 1984-01-01
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1772822558
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA description of the phonology, morphonology, morphology, syntax, historical, areal, and typological features of the Salish language of Bella Coola, British Columbia.
Author: Gordon M. Day
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 1981-01-01
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 1772822329
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing 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.
Author: Albert D. DeBlois
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 1984-01-01
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 177282254X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Frank Manning
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 1983-01-01
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 1772822523
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Author: Susan M. Kenyon
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 1980-01-01
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 177282223X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Ellice Becker Gonzalez
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 1981-01-01
Total Pages: 169
ISBN-13: 1772822337
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Koozma J. Tarasoff
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 1980-01-01
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1772822310
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTaped 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: David B. Quinn
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 1981-01-01
Total Pages: 99
ISBN-13: 1772822388
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
