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.

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.

Hare Indians and their world

Hare Indians and their world
Author: Hiroko S. Hara
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1980-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1772822256

An ethnographic examination of how the Hare, Northern Athapaskan speaking hunters and gatherers of the Fort Good Hope Game area in the Mackenzie River basin, view the world and their place in it.

Algonquin ethnobotany

Algonquin ethnobotany
Author: Meredith Jean Black
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 1980-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1772822272

A compilation of published ethnobotanical data pertaining to all of the Algonkian speaking peoples of eastern North America and field data concerning the Algonquin bands of the Ottawa River drainage and the Cree bands of the St. Maurice drainage of western Quebec. These data help illuminate past subsistence patterns, the seasonal movements of the Algonquin, and the relationship between Algonquin bands and other Algonkian speakers. They also indicate that the Algonquin previously enjoyed a subarctic subsistence orientation similar to that of the Cree and other northerners in contrast to their Iroquoian neighbours thus necessitating a redefinition of the eastern subarctic culture area.

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.

Inuit language in southern Labrador from 1694-1785 / La langue inuit au Sud du Labrador de 1964 à 1785

Inuit language in southern Labrador from 1694-1785 / La langue inuit au Sud du Labrador de 1964 à 1785
Author: Louis-Jacques Dorais
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 128
Release: 1980-01-01
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1772822280

This monograph consists of word and affix-lists, as well as grammatical observations, concerning the language of the Southern Labrador Inuit from 1694 to 1785. They were collected from written texts of this period and show that the language of these eighteenth century Inuit is almost identical with that of their contemporaries in the Eastern Canadian Arctic./Ce travail présente sous forme de listes de mots et d’affixes ainsi que de remarques grammaticales les données linguistiques continues dans les textes d’époque portant sur les Inuits du Labrador méridional, de 1694 à 1785. Il nous permet de constater que la langue inuit du18e siècle était, à peu de choses près, semblable à celle qui est parlée aujourd’hui dans l’Arctique oriental canadien.

Moose-Deer Island house people

Moose-Deer Island house people
Author: David M. Smith
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 214
Release: 1982-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1772822434

This work is a history of the Native people of Fort Resolution, Northwest Territories from the beginning of the fur trade on Great Slave Lake in 1786 to 1972. Aboriginal culture provides a base for the historic changes discussed.

North Wakashan comparative root list

North Wakashan comparative root list
Author: John C. Rath
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 436
Release: 1980-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1772822302

This book contains a listing of approximately 2,650 roots from the various North Waskashan lanugages, namely Heiltsuk (Bella Bella and Klemtu), Oowekyala (Rivers Inlet), Haisla (Kitimat) and Kwakwala (Alert Bay, Port Hardy, etc.). Each root is illustrated with lexical words from the language where it is represented, cognate words being brought together under a single entry and cross-referenced to each other as they occur at different points in the alphabetical order. The root list is preceded by concise phonologies of each language and an exposition of the techniques used to isolate roots in North Wakashan.