Examining colonial impact on Beothuk technological traditions on the Island of Newfoundland [PDF]
Indigenous technological production and use of tools is often influenced by several cultural factors including, functionality, environment, and cosmological and ideological beliefs. Projectile points are no exception, and they are often imbued with rich,
Samuels, Amanda G.
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A Few Fabulous Fragments: Historical Methods in James P. Howley’s The Beothucks [PDF]
Since it was published in 1915, James Howley’s The Beothucks has been an essential source for historians and novelists alike. Howley’s training as a geologist and surveyor shaped his scholarship.
Webb, Jeff A.
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Exposure:The ethics of making, sharing and displaying photographs of human remains [PDF]
This article will query the ethics of making and displaying photographs of human remains. In particular, we will focus on the role of photography in constituting human remains as specimens, and the centrality of the creation and circulation of ...
Adler, Tal +4 more
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Female Cartographers: Historical Obstacles and Successes [PDF]
For much of history, women have lived in male-dominated societies, which has limited their participation in society. The field of cartography has been largely populated by men, but despite cultural obstacles, there are records of women significantly ...
Llamas-Owens, Eva
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The demise of the Beothuk as a past still present [PDF]
Included with kind permission of Irish Society for the Academic Study of ReligionsThis article aims to investigate contemporary cultural representations of the Beothuk Indians in art, literature and museum displays in Newfoundland, Canada, focussing on ...
Owen, Suzanne
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The passing of the "Red Indians of Newfoundland": Colonisation and Agency in the Beothuk's extinction in the 17th-19th Centuries [PDF]
Achieving subsequent notoriety as the “Red Indians” for the conspicuous use of ochre on their bodies, the Beothuk were the main indigenous inhabitants of Newfoundland at the time of contact with Europeans at the beginning of the sixteenth century. Living
Maron, Philippe
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Spotlight on Music Collections: Interview with Marion Newman, (Ne'ega,) Mezzo-Soprano [PDF]
While previous Spotlight columns have focused on music collections and archives in Canada through the voices of those who work with them, this interview takes a slightly different angle by focusing on the career of Mezzo Soprano Marion Newman (Nege’ga ...
Folk-Farber, Kyra, Newman, Marion
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Review of \u3ci\u3eBraiding Histories: Learning from Aboriginal Peoples\u27 Experiences and Perspectives\u3c/i\u3e by Susan Dion [PDF]
In its final report in 1996, the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples observed that Canadians have little knowledge of Aboriginal people, the issues of importance to them, and the history that underlies Aboriginal-non-Aboriginal relationships today ...
Davis, Lynne
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Something to Sing About: A Preliminary List of Canadian Staged Dramatic Music Since 1867 [PDF]
The primary aim of this article is to introduce and present a preliminary list of Canadian staged dramatic music composed between 1867 and 2007 as a contribution to a previously under-cultivated field of Canadian cultural activity and research. More than
Ingraham, Mary I.
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Unsilencing the Past: Staging Black Atlantic Memory in Canada and Beyond [PDF]
My project probes the silences of Newfoundland’s colonial past by making connections between faraway lands on the other side of the Atlantic that seem, on the surface, to have nothing to do with this geography, but are, in fact, socially, economically ...
Turner, Camille Joy
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