Canoe Construction In A Cree Cultural Tradition

This study examines Eastern Cree canoe construction from a variety of anthropological and historical perspectives. The fully detailed and illustrated technical aspects of canoe construction are combined with a description of the social and economic factors, the canoe builder’s view of these activities through myth and song and a discussion of the continuity and change in all aspects of traditional canoe construction.

The canoe is a symbol unique to Canada. One of the greatest gifts of First Peoples to all those who came after, the canoe is Canada's most powerful icon. Within this Canexus II publication are a collection of essays by paddling enthusiasts and experts. Contributing authors include: Eugene Arima, Shanna Balazs, David Finch, Ralph Frese, Toni Harting, Bob Henderson, Bruce W. Hodgins, Bert Horwood, Gwyneth Hoyle, John Jennings, Timothy Kent, Peter Labor, Adrian Lee, Kenneth R. Lister, Becky Mason, James Raffan, Alister Thomas and Kirk Wipper.

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.

"By Canoe and Dog Train Among The Cree and Salteaux Indians" is a book about the lives of Christian ministers preaching among the Canadian Indians in the area of Ontario. The book tells the story of Reverend Egerton Ryerson Young, who was pastoring a thriving Methodist church in Hamilton, and his wife, Elizabeth. They both went to serve as missionaries among the Cree and Saulteaux Indians at Norway House and in the North-West Territories north of Lake Winnipeg. This book tells of the adventures, blessings, and hardships the family experienced while sharing the gospel with the Indian people of Canada's northland.

In seeking to examine the accommodation by this Northern Algonquian people to the fur trade, this study first outlines the historical development and ecological setting and then looks at the question of social change from the perspectives of economic adaptations, group structure, leadership and territorial organization.

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.

This volume contains fifteen Oowekyala Wakashan texts originally recorded at Rivers Inlet Village on the British Columbia coast with interlinear English translations and general comments on the language and culture.