Individual in northern Dene thought and communication

Individual in northern Dene thought and communication
Author: Jane Christian
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 428
Release: 1977-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1772821985

An examination of social cognitive patterning from the perspective of a Mackenzie drainage Dene community with additional discussion of related topics, including communication, learning, and classification.

Loon

Loon
Author: Henry S. Sharp
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780803293212

In an unforgettable journey through the symbolic universe and daily life of the Chipewyan of Mission, his work uses the context and meaning of the loon encounter to show how spirits are an actual and almost omnipresent aspect of life.".

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.

Swan people

Swan people
Author: Robin Ridington
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 144
Release: 1978-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1772822019

This volume presents some of the myths and oratories of the Dunne-za or Beaver of the upper Peace River. The first section offers a discussion of how the Dunne-za adapt the prophet tradition common to northwestern Native peoples to a nomadic hunter lifestyle while the second presents a collection of mythic and oratorical texts.

Case and context in Inuktitut (Eskimo)

Case and context in Inuktitut (Eskimo)
Author: Ivan Kalmár
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 171
Release: 1979-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1772822124

An examination of the circumstances under which a speaker chooses one of three possible Inuktitut sentence types containing both subject and object. This volume also includes a grammatical outline of the North Baffin Island dialect.

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.

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.

Walking the Land, Feeding the Fire

Walking the Land, Feeding the Fire
Author: Allice Legat
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2012-06-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0816530092

In the Dene worldview, relationships form the foundation of a distinct way of knowing. For the Tlicho Dene, indigenous peoples of Canada's Northwest Territories, as stories from the past unfold as experiences in the present, so unfolds a philosophy for the future. Walking the Land, Feeding the Fire vividly shows how—through stories and relationships with all beings—Tlicho knowledge is produced and rooted in the land. Tlicho-speaking people are part of the more widespread Athapaskan-speaking community, which spans the western sub-arctic and includes pockets in British Columbia, Alberta, California, and Arizona. Anthropologist Allice Legat undertook this work at the request of Tlicho Dene community elders, who wanted to provide younger Tlicho with narratives that originated in the past but provide a way of thinking through current critical land-use issues. Legat illustrates that, for the Tlicho Dene, being knowledgeable and being of the land are one and the same. Walking the Land, Feeding the Fire marks the beginning of a new era of understanding, drawing both connections to and unique aspects of ways of knowing among other Dene peoples, such as the Western Apache. As Keith Basso did with his studies among the Western Apache in earlier decades, Legat sets a new standard for research by presenting Dene perceptions of the environment and the personal truths of the storytellers without forcing them into scientific or public-policy frameworks. Legat approaches her work as a community partner—providing a powerful methodology that will impact the way research is conducted for decades to come—and provides unique insights and understandings available only through traditional knowledge.