Indigenous peoples – Canada (page 3)

Technology and material culture

Bone Snow Knives and Tin Oil Lamps: Enduring Traditions Among Canada’s First Peoples
http://www.museevirtuel.ca/Exhibitions/ROM-MCQ/index.html
Around one hundred and eighty objects representing many of Canada’s First Peoples.


The U’mista Cultural Centre Potlatch Collection
http://www.umista.org/collections/index.php


American Museum of Natural History, the Collection: Northwest Coast
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/permanent/culture/northwest.html


Scenes from the Eastern Woodlands, A Virtual Tour – circa 1550
http://www.nativetech.org/scenes/index.html


Metis Life
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/settlement/kids/021013-2081.7-e.html


Treasures of CMCC
http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/tresors/treasure/treasure00e.shtml
Includes Indian and Inuit artifacts


Traditional Plant Use in the Hazeltons
http://bcheritage.ca/hazeltons/


Northwest Coast Boxes
http://www.sfu.ca/archaeology/museum/nwcart/boxintro.htm

The Virtual Keeping House: A First Nations Gallery
http://www.sicc.sk.ca/keepinghouse/index.html


Food and food production





Native Americans and the Environment
http://www.cnie.org/nae/


Cross Currents: 500 Generations of Aboriginal Fishing in Atlantic Canada
http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/hist/lifelines/licrb01e.shtml

Buffalo as a Food Source: Some Common and Not So Commonly Known Uses
http://www.nativetech.org/poetry/buffalo.html


Aspects of Alberta Archaeology: Buffalo Hunting in the Alberta Plains
http://www.pma.edmonton.ab.ca/human/archaeo/aspects/buffalo.htm


Making Pemmican
http://archive.gg.ca/rh/nt/02/ggnt02-04_e.asp


The Beauty of Technology
http://www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Human_History/Ethnolgy.aspx?id=312


Hunting the Devil
http://www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Human_History/Ethnolgy.aspx?id=327


Arctic Harpoons
http://www.pwnhc.ca/exhibits/nv/harpoon.htm


On the Land: An extended family from Igloolik keeps the traditional hunt alive – on weekends
http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/magazine/jf99/igloolik.asp


Manomin (wild rice): A Gift from the Great Spirit
http://www.wildrice.org/iwrawebsite/html/wildricehistory.html


Mi’kmaq (Micmac) Medicines, Foods and Teas
http://www.nativetech.org/lacey/index.html

Wapato in Katzie Traditional Territory
http://www.sfu.ca/archaeology/museum/peb/wapato1.html


Gather Around This Pot…
http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/archeo/ceramiq/cerart1e.shtml




Shelter and habitation





Huron, Haida and Inuit Houses
http://www.sfu.ca/archaeology/museum/danielle_longhouse/keepers/titlepage.html


Homes of the Past: The Archaeology of an Iroquoian Longhouse
http://www.rom.on.ca/digs/longhouse/


Tipi Construction
http://www.firstpeople.us/tipi/tipi-construction-b.html


Niitoy-yiss: The Blackfoot Tipi
http://www.glenbow.org/blackfoot/index.htm


The Grand Hall: Pacific Coast Indian houses and totem poles
http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/aborig/grand/grandeng.shtml


Construction of a Traditional Kwakiutl House
http://www.namgis.bc.ca/culture/BigHouse%20Printable%20Documents/Construction.pdf


Northwest Coast Box
http://www.sfu.ca/archaeology/museum/nwcart/boxintro.htm

Haida house models
http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/tresors/treasure/236eng.shtml

The Dogrib Caribou Skin Lodge Project
http://www.pwnhc.ca/exhibits/lodge/lodgeproject.html




Light and heat











Clothing and adornment





Caribou Metatarsal Hide Scraper
http://www.sfu.ca/archaeology/museum/ethno/scraper.htm


Story Robes: Pictograph Robes of the Plains First Nations
http://www.glenbow.org/exhibitions/online/robes/srobe.htm


Athapaskan Women’s Costumes and Ornaments
http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/tresors/treasure/249eng.shtml

Moccasins
http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/aborig/mocasin/mocrune.shtml

Clothing of Tsimshian Nobles
http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/tresors/treasure/229eng.shtml

Staffs, canes and walking sticks
http://www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Human_History/Ethnolgy.aspx?id=326


Haida Basketry Hat
http://www.sfu.ca/archaeology/museum/bc/baskets/hhat/index1.html

Annuraaq: clothing of Arctic North America
http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/compass/ixbin/goto?id=ENC7425&tour=int




Arts, crafts and industries





First Nations Art: An Introduction to Contemporary Native Artists in Canada
http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/artists/index.html


First Nations artists at the McMichael
http://www.mcmichael.com/collection/firstNations.cfm


Norval Morrisseau and Medicine Painting
http://www.kstrom.net/isk/art/morriss/art_morr.html


Aboriginal Arts Gallery Saskatchewan
http://www.sicc.sk.ca/native_arts/


Through the Eyes of the Cree: The Art of Allen Sapp
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/allensapp/


Dene Crafts digital collection, University of Calgary Library
http://denecrafts.ucalgary.ca/


Online Gallery of Alex Janvier
http://www.alexjanvier.com/


Native Online
http://www.nativeonline.com


Northwest Coast Art: A Visual Introduction
http://www.sfu.ca/archaeology/museum/nwcc/T1.htm


Alcheringa Gallery: Northwest Coast contemporary Native art collection
http://www.alcheringa-gallery.com/


Blue Raven Company: An Online Gallery featuring Native Art & Jewelry
http://www.blueravenco.com/


Spirits of the North Gallery of Tribal, Indian, Aboriginal and Inuit Art
http://www.spiritsofthenorth.com/index.html


First Nations Art in B.C.
http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/exhibits/timemach/galler03/frames/index.htm


In Memoriam: Bill Reid (1920-1998)
http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/aborig/reid/reid01e.shtml


Bill Reid Foundation
http://www.billreidfoundation.org


Douglas Reynolds Gallery: Northwest Coast Native Art and Inuit Sculpture
http://www.douglasreynoldsgallery.com/ Bill Reid


The Spirit of Haida Gwaii
http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/aborig/grand/gh04eng.shtml


Bill Reid’s The Spirit of Haida Gwaii
http://pwp.lino.com/marcelg/haida_an.htm


The Raven and the First Men: From Conception to Completion
http://www.moa.ubc.ca/Exhibitions/Online/Sourcebooks/Raven/title.html


Raven and the First Men carved by Bill Reid
http://www.eldrbarry.net/rabb/rvn/reid.htm


Whittling for a Living: Doug Cranmer’s Work
http://www.moa.ubc.ca/Exhibitions/Online/Sourcebooks/Doug/page1.html


Totem Poles: Heraldic Columns of the Northwest Coast
http://content.lib.washington.edu/aipnw/wright.html


Totem Poles
http://www2.sfu.ca/archaeology/museum/totempoles/totem_home.htm


Northwest Coast Totem Poles
http://www2.sfu.ca/archaeology/museum/poles/index.htm


Pts’aanhl Nisga’a – Totem Poles of the Nisga’a
http://www.wc-cbt.com/demo/nisgaa_poles/


The Respect to Bill Reid Pole
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Billreidpole/


Carving at Skidegate
http://www.spruceroots.org/PoleSite/Haida.html


Simon Fraser University Museum of Archeology and Ethnology: Argillite Gallery
http://www.sfu.ca/archaeology/museum/argillite/my_the1_home.html

Playthings and Curios: Historic Inuit Art at the Canadian Museum of Civilization


http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/tresors/art_inuit/inarte.shtml

Iqqaipaa: Celebrating Inuit Art, 1948-1970
http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/aborig/iqqaipaa/home-e.shtml


Inuit Art
http://www.inuitart.org/content.aro?pageID=8


Inuit artists at the McMichael
http://www.mcmichael.com/collection/inuit.cfm


Holman: Forty Years of Graphic Art
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Holman/


Eskimo Sculptors
http://www.nativearttraders.com/eskimo-sculptures.htm

“A few things in the way of curios”: Historic Ivories at the Canadian Museum of Civilization
http://www.civilization.ca/research-and-collections/research/resources-for-scholars/essays-1/first-peoples/maria-von-finckenstein/historic-ivories-at-the-canadian-museum-of-civilization

Tuugaaq – Ivory – Ivoire
http://www.rom.on.ca/exhibits/ivory/


Cape Dorset Inuit Art and Inuit Cultural Perspectives
http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/cape_dorset/index.html


Inuit Printmaking
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=a1ARTA0004044




Transportation





Wave Eaters: Native Watercraft in Canada
http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/aborig/watercraft/wainteng.shtml


Canoes and Native American Watercraft
http://www.mms.gov/omm/Pacific/kids/watercraft.htm


Arctic Kayaks
http://www.arctickayaks.com/


Labrador Inuit Kayak
http://www.infonet.st-johns.nf.ca/kayak/sea_kayaking/labrador_kayak/inuit_kayak.html


Boatbuilders of My Family
http://www.moa.ubc.ca/Exhibitions/Online/Sourcebooks/Boat/page1.html


Haida Canoe
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Haida/java/english/canoe/index.html




Weapons and armour





The Atlatl Weapon
http://www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Human_History/Archaeology.aspx?id=329


Kwah’s Dagger
http://www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Human_History/Ethnolgy.aspx?id=344


Tsimshian Society and Culture: Warfare
http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/aborig/tsimsian/wariw01e.shtml


Haida Warfare
http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/aborig/haida/havwa01e.shtml


Aboriginal Defensive Sites
http://www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Human_History/Archaeology.aspx?id=355

 

Biography




Our Elders: Interviews with Saskatchewan Elders
http://www.sicc.sk.ca/elders/


RBCM Notes: James Scomiak–Songhees Chief 1864-1892
http://www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Human_History/Ethnolgy.aspx?id=334


Native American Authors Project: Bill Reid , 1920-
http://www.ipl.org/cgi/ref/native/browse.pl/A275


Peter Pitseolak
http://thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0006311


Norval Morrisseau (born 1932); Aboriginal artist
http://www.native-american-artworld.com/aboriginal-art-norval-morrisseau.html


Roy Henry Vickers
http://www.royhenryvickers.com/artist


The Pauline Johnson Archive
http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~pjohnson/home.html


From Bush Living to Urban Living: A Profile of Max Deranger
http://www.moa.ubc.ca/Exhibitions/Online/Sourcebooks/Max/Page1.html


Social Studies Grade Four, Student Information Page: Dr. Anne Anderson
http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/elemsoc/g4u21ess.html#AAnderson