Canadian Museum of Civilization

Canadian Ethnology Service

This collection of papers on the Nootka Indians of the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, includes descriptions and oral history of the Nootka, Aht, West Coast, Nuu-chah-nulth, Tseshaht, Ohiaht, Ditidaht and Pacheedaht peoples, together with tables and maps of place names and territories in the Barkley Sound and Alberni Inlet areas.

Notes on West Coast Peoples

Between Ports Alberni and Renfrew

Harlan Ingersoll Smith

During the 1920s Harlan I. Smith, an archaeologist with the National Museum of Canada, documented plant and animal knowledge and use among the Gitksan, Nuxalk and Ulkatcho Carrier of British COlumbia. This volume is an edited version of a manuscript by Smith, which contains information on 112 botanical species and their traditional cultural roles among the Gitksan. Prepared between 1925 and 1927, Smith's work is the earliest, relatively comprehensive ethnobotanical study for any Tsimshianic group, the first record of a clearly ethnobotanical investigation undertaken in British Columbia, and the first to include the term "ethnobotany" in its title. This thoroughly revised version of the manuscript also offers additional introductory text, ethnobotanical and linguistic commentary, and concluding remarks not found in the original.

Ethnobotany of the Gitksan Indians of British Columbia

Harlan I. Smith

Catharine McClellan

An Ethnographic Survey of Southern Yukon Territory

My Old People Say

Simon Walkus

Evelyn Walkus Windsor

Oowekeeno Oral Traditions as Told by the Late Chief Simon Walkus, Sr

John Hewson

This proto-language dictionary contains over 4,000 entries and an extensive index of English glosses, and was produced from computer programmes that reconstructed the sound systems of four Algonquian languages, from some 30,000 lexical items recorded by Leonard Bloomfield.

A Computer-generated Dictionary of Proto-Algonquian

Drawing on the rich primary sources of company records and catalogues, existing factory buidlings and equipment, photographs and newspaper accounts, The Alberta Pottery Industry, 1912-1990 tells a fascinating story enriched by the memories of the people who worked in the plants. This study focuses on the economic and social impact of the industry, both locally and natonally. As a study of material history, it examines the outputs of the pottery industry, the plant processes, and the people who made and used those products. This book also traces the factors that affected the emergence, success, tribulations, and demise of pottery in Alberta in the context of the provinceOs economic history. At the same time it portrays the human interest in the pottery story: rivalry and espionage among those who founded the factories, the success and failures of the scientists who struggled to perfect the pottery materials and manufacturing processes, and the daily lives of the workers and entrepreneurs in the pottery industry. For those who know, collect, or use Medalta pottery, this book is a valuable source of information far beyond what has been available to date. It is a fine compliment to museum collections and exhibits and the heritage sites the pottery factories have become. Anne Hayward curated the travelling exhibition Medalta Ware for the Glenbow Museum, Calgary, and developed curatorial and interpretive materials for the Clay Products Interpretive Centre in Medicine Hat.

Albert D. DeBlois

The Micmac Dictionary is derived from texts and anecdotes collected over the past 35 years from speakers of Micmac in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Quebec. The Micmac-English section consists of some 7,850 Micmac entries with their English equivalents. There is also a comprehensive English-Micmac index.

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