Aspects of Inuit value socialization

Aspects of Inuit value socialization
Author: Jean L. Briggs
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 71
Release: 1979-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1772822183

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

Trappers of Patuanak

Trappers of Patuanak
Author: Robert Jarvenpa
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 1980-01-01
Genre: 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.

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

Practical Heiltsuk-English dictionary with a grammatical introduction: Volume 2
Author: John C. Rath
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 374
Release: 1981-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 177282237X

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

Bella Coola language
Author: H. F. Nater
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 192
Release: 1984-01-01
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1772822558

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

Identity of the Saint Francis Indians
Author: Gordon M. Day
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1981-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1772822329

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

Micmac lexicon
Author: Albert D. DeBlois
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 412
Release: 1984-01-01
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 177282254X

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

Consciousness and inquiry
Author: Frank Manning
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 1983-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1772822523

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

Kyuquot way
Author: Susan M. Kenyon
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 213
Release: 1980-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 177282223X

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

Changing economic roles for Micmac men and women
Author: Ellice Becker Gonzalez
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 169
Release: 1981-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1772822337

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

Persistent ceremonialism: the Plains Cree and Saulteaux
Author: Koozma J. Tarasoff
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 1980-01-01
Genre: 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.