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.

After King Philip's War

After King Philip's War
Author: Colin G. Calloway
Publisher: UPNE
Total Pages: 445
Release: 2000-07-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1611680611

New perspectives on three centuries of Indian presence in New England

Canadian Inuit literature

Canadian Inuit literature
Author: Robin McGrath
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 1984-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1772822574

A study of the development of contemporary Inuit literature, in both Inuktitut and English, including a discussion of its themes, structures and roots in oral tradition. The author concludes that a strong continuity persists between the two narrative forms despite apparent differences in subject matter and language.

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.

Ojibwa lexicon

Ojibwa lexicon
Author: G. L. Piggot
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 392
Release: 1983-01-01
Genre: 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.

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.

Coast Salish gambling games

Coast Salish gambling games
Author: Lynn Maranda
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 157
Release: 1984-01-01
Genre: 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.

Canadian Ethnology Society: Papers from the sixth annual congress, 1979

Canadian Ethnology Society: Papers from the sixth annual congress, 1979
Author: Marie-Françoise Guédon
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 275
Release: 1981-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 177282240X

Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Congress of the Canadian Ethnology Society (1979) with contributed papers ranging in topic from semiology to the seventeenth century Iroquois wars to Japanese ghost stories.

Music of the Netsilik Eskimo: Volume 2

Music of the Netsilik Eskimo: Volume 2
Author: Beverley Cavanagh
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 392
Release: 1982-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1772822450

This study defines the traditional styles and genres of Netsilik Inuit music and examines the extent of change which this music has undergone especially as a result of contact with European and North American music. Volume two consists of song transcriptions and commentaries.

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.