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Notice catalographique « Persistent ceremonialism : the Plains Cree and Saulteaux »

Titre
Persistent ceremonialism : the Plains Cree and Saulteaux
Auteur ou éditeur
  • Tarasoff, Koozma J., 1932-
  • Canadian Ethnology Service
  • National Museum of Man (Canada)
  • National Museums of Canada
Lieu de publication
Ottawa
Maison d'édition
National Museums of Canada
Date de publication
1980
Collation
viii, 247 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Série
Paper / Canadian Ethnology Service
Résumé
Examines the significance of traditional ceremonies in the Plains Cree and Saulteaux [Indigenous] cultures of central Saskatchewan.
Notes
  • Chapter one: The location and the people -- Chapter two: Principal informants: 1. Felix Panipekeesick ("Rain Thunderbird") 2. Peter George ("Thunder-born") 3. Mrs. Elizabeth Wasacase ("Girl Bird") 4. Alex Tanner ("The Last Feather Flying High") -- Chapter three: Persistence of Indigenous ceremonialism: 1. definitions 2. selected survivals of ceremonialism: rain dance, smoking tepee, sweat bath feast, "good" and "bad" medicine, the medicine man, good and bad signs and predictions, Indian names, marriage ceremonies, funerals and burials, powwow dance, other dances, the elements of ritualism 3. an overview of ceremonialism and the supernatural -- Photographs -- Appendices.
  • Mercury series / National Museum of Man = Collection mercure / Musée national de l'homme
Langue
English = Anglais
Sujet
  • Nehiyawak - Rites and ceremonies
  • Ojibwe - Rites and ceremonies
  • Indigenous peoples - Saskatchewan - Rites and ceremonies
  • Indigenous peoples - Great Plains - Rites and ceremonies
  • Nehiyawak - Rites et cérémonies
  • Ojibwés - Rites et cérémonies
  • Autochtones - Saskatchewan - Rites et cérémonies
  • Autochtones - Grandes Plaines - Rites et cérémonies
Pays
Canada
Type de document
Monograph = Monographie
Localisation
E 99 C6 T37
Clé
6842
Collection
Catalogue
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