Algonquins

Algonquins PDF Author: Daniel Clément
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 1772822949
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265

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Book Description
First published in French in Recherches amérindiennes au Québec in 1993, this collection of essays aims to provide a better understanding of the Algonquin people. The nine contributors to the book deal with topics ranging from prehistory, historical narratives, social organization and land use to mythology and legends, beliefs, material culture and the conditions of contemporary life. A thematic bibliography completes the volume.

Algonquins

Algonquins PDF Author: Daniel Clément
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 1772822949
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265

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Book Description
First published in French in Recherches amérindiennes au Québec in 1993, this collection of essays aims to provide a better understanding of the Algonquin people. The nine contributors to the book deal with topics ranging from prehistory, historical narratives, social organization and land use to mythology and legends, beliefs, material culture and the conditions of contemporary life. A thematic bibliography completes the volume.

Artifacts from the CCFCS collections

Artifacts from the CCFCS collections PDF Author: Philip V. R. Tilney
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 1772823155
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 70

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Book Description
This sampling of artifacts from the collections of the Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies represents twenty-three traditional societies. Not exhaustive, it is a combination of photographs and general remarks to illustrate which types of artifacts have particular relevance to the contemporary Canadian folk culture complex.

Sheguiandah Site

Sheguiandah Site PDF Author: Patrick J. Julig
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 1772821551
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 331

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Book Description
First excavated in the early 1950s, the Sheguiandah site had remained enigmatic for half a century. This volume details controversial early claims that the site had been occupied before the last Ice Age, then covers more recent studies of the geological and botanical history of the area – including new evidence that the site was uninhabited until after the retreat of the glaciers.

Acaoohkiwina and Acimowina

Acaoohkiwina and Acimowina PDF Author: Robert A. Brightman
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 1772822779
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Book Description
Narratives from different genres of Rock Cree oral literature in northwestern Manitoba, together with interpretive and comparative commentary are presented.

Archaeological Collections from Norutak Lake on the Kobuk-Alatna River Portage, Northwestern Alaska

Archaeological Collections from Norutak Lake on the Kobuk-Alatna River Portage, Northwestern Alaska PDF Author: Donald Woodforde Clark
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 1772820180
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 77

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Book Description
Material from small-scale excavations near the Inuit-Native interface relates to several periods of Inuit prehistory but shows also interior or non-Inuit influence.

Micmac texts

Micmac texts PDF Author: Albert D. DeBlois
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 1772822817
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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Book Description
This collection of Micmac texts includes an oral history of the arrival of the first Europeans on the shores of Cape Breton, a ghost story and a tale of the hero Gluscap.

Meta Incognita: a discourse of discovery - volume 1

Meta Incognita: a discourse of discovery - volume 1 PDF Author: Thomas H. B. Symons
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 177282433X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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Book Description
The Meta Incognita Project was initiated to cast new light on the Arctic voyages of Martin Frobisher and their significance for the histories of North America and Britain. Although the Elizabethan venture failed to discover a northwest passage to mines and precious metals, and to establish a colony in the future Canadian Arctic, it left valuable legacies.

Under the northern lights

Under the northern lights PDF Author: Nelma Sillanpaa
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 1772824070
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 161

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Book Description
What was it like for young immigrant girls growing up in the lumber camps and mining towns of northern Ontario in the 1920s? How did teenagers in Canada cope with the Great Depression of the “Dirty Thirties”? What did young women on the home front do during World War II while their menfolk were overseas with the Canadian Forces? This autobiography shows us what ordinary life has been like for many women in Canada over the last 75 years, and it illuminates a largely unknown chapter of Canada’s diverse multicultural heritage.

One woman's Charlottetown

One woman's Charlottetown PDF Author: Evelyn J. MacLeod
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 1772824054
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 237

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Book Description
Margaret Gray Lord was the second daughter of Father of Confederation, John Hamilton Gray, and the wife of Artemas Lord. The diaries portray the social life of a Victorian lady living in Prince Edward Island and cover her transition from a life of gentility in a British possession to one of domesticity in a Canadian province.

Passion for the Past

Passion for the Past PDF Author: James Vallière Wright
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 1772821578
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 486

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Book Description
A Passion for the Past celebrates the late archaeologist James F. Pendergast. The book includes twenty-two essays on subjects ranging from archaeological ethnicity to Native perspectives on archaeology, and features several texts on the St. Lawrence Iroquoians, a subject dear to Pendergast’s heart.