Oowekeeno oral traditions as told by the Late Chief Simon Walkus, Sr.

Oowekeeno oral traditions as told by the Late Chief Simon Walkus, Sr.
Title Oowekeeno oral traditions as told by the Late Chief Simon Walkus, Sr. PDF eBook
Author Susan Hilton
Publisher University of Ottawa Press
Pages 233
Release 1982-01-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1772822477

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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.

Voices from Four Directions

Voices from Four Directions
Title Voices from Four Directions PDF eBook
Author Brian Swann
Publisher U of Nebraska Press
Pages 660
Release 2004-01-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780803243002

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Gathers stories and songs from thirty-one native groups in North America, including the Inupiaqs, the Lushoots, the Catawbas, and the Maliseets.

Oowekeeno Oral Traditions

Oowekeeno Oral Traditions
Title Oowekeeno Oral Traditions PDF eBook
Author Simon Walkus (Sr.)
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 1982
Genre Indians of North America
ISBN 9780614050578

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The Heiltsuks

The Heiltsuks
Title The Heiltsuks PDF eBook
Author Michael Eugene Harkin
Publisher U of Nebraska Press
Pages 228
Release 1997-01-01
Genre History
ISBN 9780803223790

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In an incisive and wide-ranging critique of ethno-history and historical anthropology, Michael E. Harkin develops an innovative approach to understanding the profound cultural changes experienced during the past century by the Heiltsuks (Bella Bella), a Northwest Coast Indian group. Between 1880 and 1920, the Heiltsuks changed from one of the most traditional and aggressive groups on the Northwest Coast to paragons of Victorian virtues. Why and how did this dramatic transformation occur? These questions, Harkin contends, can best be answered by tracing the changing views the Heiltsuks had of themselves and of their past as they encountered colonial powers. Rejecting many of the common methods and assumptions of ethnohistorians as unwittingly Eurocentric or simplistic, Harkin argues that the multiple perspectives, motives, and events constituting the Heiltsuks' world and history can be productively conceived of as dialogues, ongoing series of culturally embedded communicative acts that presuppose previous acts and constrain future ones. Historical transformations in three of these dialogues, centering on the body, material goods, and concepts of the soul, are examined in detail.

Interpretive contexts for traditional and current coast Tsimshian feasts

Interpretive contexts for traditional and current coast Tsimshian feasts
Title Interpretive contexts for traditional and current coast Tsimshian feasts PDF eBook
Author Margaret Seguin
Publisher University of Ottawa Press
Pages 122
Release 1985-01-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1772822612

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An archival and ethnographic account of Coast Tsimshian feast traditions with emphasis on their role as forms of discourse shaped by idiosyncratic textual conventions.

Nine Visits to the Mythworld

Nine Visits to the Mythworld
Title Nine Visits to the Mythworld PDF eBook
Author Ghandl of the Qayahl Llaanas
Publisher Douglas & McIntyre
Pages 204
Release 2023-10-28
Genre History
ISBN 1771623780

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In the Fall of 1900, a young American anthropologist named John Swanton arrived in the Haida country, on the Northwest Coast of North America, intending to learn everything he could about Haida mythology. He spent the next ten months phonetically transcribing several thousand pages of myths, stories, histories and songs in the Haida language. Swanton met a number of fine mythtellers during his year in the Haida country. Each had his own style and his own repertoire. Two of them—a blind man in his fifties by the name of Ghandl, and a crippled septuagenarian named Skaay—were artists of extraordinary stature, revered in their own communities and admired ever since by the few specialists aware of their great legacy. Nine Visits to the Mythworld includes all the finest works of one of these master mythtellers. In November 1900, when Ghandl dictated these nine stories, the Haida world lay in ruins. Wave upon wave of smallpox and other diseases, rapacious commercial exploitation by fur traders, whalers and miners, and relentless missionization by the church had taken a huge toll on Haida culture. Yet in the blind poet’s mind, the great tradition lived, and in his voice it comes alive. Robert Bringhurst’s eloquent and vivid translations of these works are supplemented by explanatory notes that supply the needed background information.

Canadian Inuit literature

Canadian Inuit literature
Title Canadian Inuit literature PDF eBook
Author Robin McGrath
Publisher University of Ottawa Press
Pages 242
Release 1984-01-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1772822574

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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.