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Middle ground
The Hare of Colville Lake, an isolated community in the Northwest Territories, lead a nomadic way of life – hunting, fishing and trapping. This study examines their responses to recent social and technological changes.
Some aspects of the grammar of the Eskimo dialects of Cumberland Peninsula and North Baffin Island
This study analyses some of the grammar of the two dialectal areas of Central Arctic: Cumberland Peninsula and North Baffin Island. While not dealing in detail with all aspects of the Inuit grammar, it concentrates on an analysis of noun and verb structures. It also includes the use of the dual person.
Cree narrative
Narrative obtained from the Eastern Cree of James Bay, Quebec, are considered in their various functions within the Cree culture. The author provides an inductive approach for this study.
A grammar of Akwesasne Mohawk
Presentation of the general characteristics of Mohawk; definition of the word and word formation, completed by a discussion of the phonemics and morphonemics. The major part of the grammar is concerned with the structure and use of the words.
Ethnobotany of the Blackfoot Indians
This study documents Blackfoot plant use as provided by elderly informants schooled in the tradition of plant uses. Use of approximately one hundred species are described in topical form: religion and ceremony, birth control, medicine, horse medicine, diet, craft and folklore.
Swan people
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.
Trappers of Patuanak
This study develops an analytical framework that treats special arrangements of human populations as a fundamental form of ecological adaptation for subarctic aboriginal societies. The geographical mobility of commercial fur trappers and fishermen from the English River Chipewyan community of Patuanak, Saskatchewan is employed as a variable for explaining the organization of economic subsistence cycles and ongoing processes of settlement system change.
Canadian Ethnology Society: Papers from the sixth annual congress, 1979
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.
Papers in linguistics from the 1972 Conference on Iroquoian Research
Papers by various authors dealing with noun incorporation in Mohawk and Onondaga (N. Bonvillain, H. Woodbury), word order in Tuscarora (M. Mithun), and ethnohistorical questions based on linguistic analysis of Mohawk (G. Michelson) and Erie (R. Wright) are included.
Musical traditions of the Labrador coast Inuit
An examination of the musical traditions of the Inuit of Nain, Labrador. Particular emphasis is placed upon the influence of Moravian missionaries on Inuit performance since 1771, a situation which is compared with that of Christian missionaries on the Inuit of Pangnirtung, Northwest Territories.
