Charles Marius Barbeau’s Ethnography and the Canadian Folklore Born on 5 March 1883, in Sainte-Marie-de-Bauce, Charles Marius Barbeau is widely seen as the first Canadian educated anthropologist. He graduated from Université Laval in Québec, from his studies of law, in 1907; he never practised law. Upon graduating, Marius was awarded – as the first French-Canadian recipient – the Cecil Rhodes scholarship which allowed him to study at Oxford University where he was introduced to the emerging
territories for many years before the arrival of Europeans. In the 17th century, Alaska started receiving Russian settlers while the first European contact came on August 21,1732 with the second contact in 1741 and permanent settlers in 1784. The Tsimshian people from the British Columbia started settling in Alaska in 1887 with permission from the US Congress and American President Grover Cleveland, afterward, the settlers suffered several mistreatments from Russia
They spoke a language called the Haida language. This is the language the Haida were known as. Specific words in Haida language have different meanings in English. Haida also had five main nations. The five main nations were The Haida, The Tlingit, Tsimshian, The Nootka, and The Salishan. The people of the Pacific were a very important Canadian
The Chilkat Blanket is a North American (NorthWest Coast) textile that originally derives from the Tsimshian people, but spread and evolved with the Tlingit people through trade and marriage. The start of the Chilkat Blanket can be linked directly to Tlingit mythology. According to the UN- Textbook of Mythology and Folklore, it is a love story that begins with a chief’s daughter who goes on a journey with her tribe in search of wild celery for early spring. As she ventures she suddenly hears
More than 12,000 years ago ancestors hiked from Asia to claim what is now known as the Americas. By 15th century A.D., scholars estimate that more than 50 million Native Americans inhabited the land we call ours. More specifically, 10 million people lived in what we call the United States. Native Americans have many different groups within the broad culture. These groups of people share similar living arrangements and personal characteristics. These groups are: the Arctic, the Subarctic, the Northeast
The Potlatch Ceremony For my final paper I will be discussing The Potlatch Ceremony. In this essay I will talk about what exactly The Potlatch Ceremony is, its meaning and purpose of the ritual, how long it lasts, and when it is held. The Potlatch Ceremony has relation to the physical environment resembled by costumes and dances. I will also be talking about the differences between The Potlatch Ceremony today and the ceremony that was held in the late 1800’s. I will also be examining the ban that
Eden Robinson is a Haisla writer who was born at Haisla Nation Kitimaat Reserve on 19th January 1968 (“Eden Robinson” 2007). She has a Haisla father and a Heiltsuk mother and spent both her childhood and her adolescence in the Reserve (“Eden Robinson” 2007). Robinson obtained a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts at the University of Victoria and also earned a master’s degree in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia (“Eden Robinson” 2007). Monkey Beach is her first novel and was published
Fiamengo, 147. Carol Cooper, “Native Women of the Northern Pacific Coast: An Historical Perspective, 1830-1900,” Journal of Canadian Studies 27 no. 4 (Winter 1992): 44; Susan Neylan, The Heavens are Changing: Nineteenth-Century Protestant Missions and Tsimshian Christianity (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press), 2003. Also see Myra Rutherdale, “ ‘She Was a Ragged Little Thing’: Missionaries, Embodiment, and Refashioning Aboriginal Womanhood in Northern Canada,” Contact Zones: Aboriginal