Ethnohistoric study of eastern James Bay Cree social organization, 1700-1850

Ethnohistoric study of eastern James Bay Cree social organization, 1700-1850
Author: Toby Morantz
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 211
Release: 1983-01-01
Genre: 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.

A Bibliography of Canadian Folklore in English

A Bibliography of Canadian Folklore in English
Author: Edith Fowke
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 1982-12-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1487597177

This book is the only comprehensive bibliography of Canadian folklore in English. The 3877 different items are arranged by genres: folktales; folk music and dance; folk speech and naming; superstitions, popular beliefs, folk medicine, and the supernatural; folk life and customs; folk art and material culture; and within genres by ethnic groups: Anglophone and Celtic, Francophone, Indian and Inuit, and other cultural groups. The items include reference books, periodicals, articles, records, films, biographies of scholars and informants, and graduate theses. Each items is annotated through a coding that indicates whether it is academic or popular, its importance to the scholar, and whether it is suitable for young people. The introduction includes a brief survey of Canadian folklore studies, putting this work into academic and social perspective. The book covers all the important items and most minor items dealing with Canadian folklore published in English up to the end of 1979. It is concerned with legitimate Canadian folklore – whether transplanted from other countries and preserved here, or created here to reflect the culture of this country. It distinguishes between authentic folklore presented as collected and popular treatments in which the material has been rewritten by the authors. Intended primarily for scholars of folklore, international as well as Canadian, the book will also be of use to scholars in anthropology, cultural geography, oral history, and other branches of Canadian culture studies, as well as to librarians, teachers, and the general public.

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.

Musical life of the Blood Indians

Musical life of the Blood Indians
Author: Robert Witmer
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 197
Release: 1982-01-01
Genre: 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.

Bella Coola Indian music

Bella Coola Indian music
Author: Anton F. Kolstee
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 1982-01-01
Genre: 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.

Thesis and dissertation titles and abstracts on the anthropology of Canadian Indians, Inuit and Metis from Canadian universities

Thesis and dissertation titles and abstracts on the anthropology of Canadian Indians, Inuit and Metis from Canadian universities
Author: René R. Gadacz
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 142
Release: 1984-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1772822582

Abstracts of Master’s and Doctoral thesis completed at Canadian universities between 1970-1982 dealing with ethnographic, archaeological, linguistic, and physical anthropological topics relevant to Canada’s Native peoples.

Neighbors and intruders

Neighbors and intruders
Author: Laurence M. Hauptman
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1978-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1772822027

The first comprehensive overview of the Native peoples residing in the Hudson’s River area since E. M. Ruttenber’s History of the Indian Tribes of Hudson’s River (1872), this volume utilizes data from a variety of sources including archaeology, historical documents, and linguistic analyses.

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.