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Abenaki basketry
Once an integral feature of the culture and economy of the St. Francis Abenaki at Odanak, splint basketry has become an activity of the elderly. This volume examines the reasons for this change as indicated by alterations to basketry style and construction between 1880 and the present and the influence of historical events.
Chipewyan marriage
A study of the kinship terms used by the Mission Chipewyan and the social ramifications that result from their basis on relative age and genealogical position, the confusion surrounding kindred and hunting unit functions, and the implications of marriage. Published in English.
Three stories in Oneida
Three Oneida stories (The Widower and His Little Girl, The Young Flirt, and Why the Bear Has No Tail) are presented with an interlinear translation and a morpheme-by-morpheme analysis.
Changing economic roles for Micmac men and women
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.
Acaoohkiwina and Acimowina
Narratives from different genres of Rock Cree oral literature in northwestern Manitoba, together with interpretive and comparative commentary are presented.
Coast Salish gambling games
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.
Stolen women
A study of narratives told by female members of the Tagish and Tutchone of central and southern Yukon with particular emphasis on their cultural continuity, function during a period of significant change, and the insights they offer into traditional gender roles. Most important is the author’s revelation of the importance of context in understanding such stories.
Window on the past
A description of Northern and Kaigani Haida culture change as understood from a study of over two hundred late nineteenth-century photographs and relevant documentary evidence and ethnographic data.
Music of the Netsilik Eskimo: Volume 2
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.
Ojibwa lexicon
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.
