A collection of forty-one Inuit songs from Eskimo Point, Northwest Territories, featuring three genres: ajajait (personal songs), animal songs, and songs sung by children playing games. Published in English.

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Eric P. Hamp reconsiders the phonological features of the Proto-Algonquian terms for “sun” and “day” and offers a new reconstruction. Robert Howren provides a classic phonemic description of Dogrib phonology, examining selected phonological features from the perspective...

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An examination of the relationship between narrative structure and narrative performance in Fort Chipewyan, Alberta.Published in English.

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Utilizing primary ethnographic evidence from Hudson Bay and documentary evidence pertaining to other regions of the Arctic, the author examines the practice of Inuit adoption. The conclusions of this study have significant ramifications with respect to understanding...

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Télécharger le livre :  Solstice-aligned boulder configurations in Saskatchewan
Of eleven Saskatchewan boulder configurations examined by the authors, three were found to correlate to astronomical phenomena. Although a search for local oral traditions which might explain these associations proved largely fruitless, there was some evidence that the...

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Télécharger le livre :  Lunenburg County folklore and oral hishistory
This volume offers a compilation of folklore material gathered from Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, including data relating to traditional work patterns, education, values, beliefs, and songs. Published in English.

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Télécharger le livre :  Western Canadian history
Focusing on the presentation of Western Canadian history to the general public, this volume compares exhibitions from the British Columbia Provincial Museum, the Vancouver Centennial Museum, the Glenbow-Alberta Institute, the Alberta Provincial Museum, the Western...

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This study examines the life and work of a rural nineteenth-century Ontario cabinetmaker, Francis Jones. An appreciation of his work is gained through illustrations and discussions of his shop and furniture-making techniques.This story is typical of many...

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Biographical sketches of seven Athapaskan women residing in the Yukon are provided together with a selection of legends and a discussion of changes in the lives of Athapaskan women in the twentieth century.Published in English.

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A discussion of the different ways in which the Inuit of Rankin Inlet have chosen to adapt to a changing economy. Published in English.

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A study of a ten-member rural sibling group, characterized by a high degree of specialization in traditional skills, which determines the factors regulating the achievement of status in a family setting. Published in English.

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Télécharger le livre :  Many voices
This volume provides a historical overview of the development and role of Anglo-Canadian folklore studies in Canada and their relationship to similar research conducted with respect to French Canadians, minority groups within Canada, within the wider Canadian context,...

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The folk art of the Swiss-German Mennonites living in the Waterloo, Ontario region is compared with that of the Dutch-German Mennonites from the same area. Traditional arts discussed include Fraktur, needlework, wood-working and cooking. Published in English.

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Télécharger le livre :  Palaeoeskimo Occupations at Port Refuge, High Arctic Canada
Port Refuge is a small bay on the south coast of Grinnell Peninsula, Devon Island, in the High Arctic. Archaeological work between 1972 and 1977 recovered remains of several prehistoric occupations of this area, which are ascribed to the Independence I, Pre-Dorset,...

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The papers included in this volume concern the different ways in which Europeans have interacted with Native peoples such as through trade, religious missions, and land use. Published in English.

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Télécharger le livre :  A Survey of the Derivational Postbases of Labrador Inuttut (Eskimo)
This volume constitutes a dictionary of derivational postbases currently used by the Labrador Coast Inuit. Each entry includes the Inuttut form in phonemic orthography, morphophonemic specifications, an English semantic characterization, indications of idiosyncrasies,...

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The author compares and contrasts the lexicon, phonology, and grammar of dialects spoken in five northwestern Quebec Algonquin communities. Isoglosses of contrasting features are provided in addition to an appendix of supplementary information. Published in English.

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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...

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Télécharger le livre :  Contextual studies of material culture
A selected bibliography of holdings (nineteenth and twentieth century, English language private papers) in the Public Archives of Canada of interest to the study of women’s history. Published in English.

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An expanded and revised compilation of Canadian archaeological radiocarbon dates including those of the first publication in 1969 to the spring of 1976. Sites are arranged alphabetically by province or territory.An index of Borden Site Designation System numbers is...

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