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Vetromile, Eugene

The Abnakis and their history, or, Historical notices on the aborigines of Acadia / by Eugene Vetromile.  New York : J.B. Kirker, 1866. 171 pages : illustrations ; 1866.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfilm 3580 - Open Shelf

Abenaki Indians
First Nations of North America
Mi'kmaq — Social life and customs.

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Canada. Indian and Northern Affairs Canada

Annual report Ottawa : Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, 1983-. 9 v. : illustrations; 28 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.366 #7 - Vertical File

Lounsbury, Floyd G.

Iroquois place-names in the Champlain Valley Albany N.Y. : University of the State of New York, State Education Dept., 1965-. 23-66 pages : 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.236 #3 - Vertical File

Gatschet, Albert S.

The meaning of merrimac 1899-.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.125 #31 - Vertical File

Indians of North Amercia — Language
Algonquian language

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Gatschet, Albert S.

Specimen of songs of the Modoc Indians / Albert S. Gatschet.  Washington, D.C. : Judd & Detweiler, 1894. pages 26-31; 25 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.125 #18 - Vertical File

"Reprinted from the American anthropologist"--cover.

First Nations of North America
Modoc Indians.

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Gatschet, Albert S.

The Beothuk Indians / by Albert S. Gatschet.  Philadelphia : 1890. 16 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.125 #17 - Vertical File

Beothuk Indians
First Nations of North America.

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Hill-Tout, Charles

Notes on the cosmogony and history of the Squamish Indians of British Columbia / by C. Hill-Tout.  Ottawa : J. Durie, 1897. pages 85-90; 25 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.125 #13 - Vertical File

From Proceedings and transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, 2d ser., v. 3, section 2, 1897, p. 85-90.

Squawmish Indians
First Nations of North America — British Columbia.

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Dempsey, Hugh Aylmer

A Blackfoot winter count Calgary : Glenbow Foundation, 1965. 20 pages : illustrations, ports.; 25 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.125 #6 - Vertical File

An annotated list of important events among the Blackfoot tribes of southern Alberta between 1810 and 1883, kept by Bad Head, a Blood chief.

First Nations of North America — Canada
Siksika Indians.

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New Brunswick Museum

Micmac & Maliseet decorative traditions = Traditions décoratives Micmac & Maliseet : a catalogue featuring a selection of Maliseet and Micmac decorative arts from the collections of the New Brunswick Museum / edited with an introd. by Gaby Pelletier ; photography and catalogue design by Don Simpson.  Saint John, N.B. : The Museum, 1977. 64 pages : illustrations some copies; 25 cm.

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English and French.

Pelletier, Gaby.

Mi'kmaq — Art
Malecite Indians — Art
First Nations of North America — Art.

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Bigot, Vincent

Relation de ce qui s'est passé de plus remarquable dans la mission des Abnaquis à l'Acadie, l'année 1701 Manate, N.Y. : La presse Cramoisy de Jean-Marie Shea, 1858. 34 pages, 1 leaf

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK F95 B48 - Akins

Abnaki Indians
First Nations of North America — Missions.

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Pownall, Thomas

The administration of the colonies London : Printed for J. Wilkie ., 1764. [2], 131 pages ; 19 cm. (8vo)

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK DA3 F85 - Akins

By Thomas Pownall. Published anonymously. First edition References: Sabin 64814; TPL 6514. Signatures

Indians — Treatment of — North America
United States — History — French and Indian War, 1755-1763 — Sources
Great Britain — Colonies — America — Administration.

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Waugh, Frederick Wilkerson

Iroquis sic foods and food preparation / by F.W. Waugh.  Ottawa : Government Printing Bureau, 1916. 235 pages, xxxix pl. (part col.) ; 25 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - QE185 A2 no.86

Iroquois Indians
First Nations of North America — Food.

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Speck, Frank Gouldsmith

Myths and folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa / by F.G. Speck.  Ottawa : Government Printing Bureau, 1915. iii, 87 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations, map ; 26 cm

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - QE185 A2 no.71

No. 147 Folded map in pocket. Issued with: Family hunting territories and social life of various Algonkian bands of the Ottawa Valley

Algonquian Indians — Folklore
First Nations of North America — Folklore
First Nations of North America — Canada — Folklore
Ojibwa Indians — Folklore
Algonquian Indians
Ojibwa Indians.

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Speck, Frank Gouldsmith

Family hunting territories and social life of various Algonkian bands of the Ottawa Valley / by F.G. Speck.  Ottawa : Government Printing Bureau, 1915. 30 pages, [5] pages of plates : illustrations, map, tables ;

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - QE185 A2 no.70

No. 1469 Folded map in pocket. Issued with: Myths and folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa.

First Nations of North America — Social life and customs
Timiskaming Indians — Social life and customs
Ojibwa Indians — Social life and customs
Algonquian Indians — Social life and customs
First Nations of North America — Canada.

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Mechling, W. H.

Malecite tales / by W. H. Mechling.  Ottawa : Govt. Print. Bureau, 1914. vi, 133 pages ; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - QE185 A2 no.49

Some myths and tales of the Ojibwa of southeastern Ontario / collected by Paul Radin.  Ottawa, ON. : GSC, 1914. vi, 83 p ; 25 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - QE185 A2 no.48

Roberts, Helen Heffron

Form in primitive music : an analytical and comparative study of the melodic form of some ancient southern California Indian songs / by Helen H. Roberts.  New York : American library of musicology : W. W. Norton, 1933. x, 180 pages ; 26 cm.

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The songs ... are derived from three sources: Luiseño, Gabrielino presumably mainland although not clearly so and a small number plainly stated to belong to Catalina.--Introd., pages 2. Includes music.

First Nations of North America — Music
Luiseño Indians
Gabrielino Indians
First Nations of North America — California — Santa Catalina island
Shoshonean Indians — Religion and mythology
Musical form
Musical instruments, Primitive.

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MacDonald, George Frederick

Debert : a Palaeo-Indian site in central Nova Scotia / by George F. MacDonald.  Ottawa, ON. : Duhamel, Queen's Printer and Controller of Stationery, 1968. x, 207 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GN2 C21 A4 no.16

Wintemberg, William John

Roebuck prehistoric village site : Grenville County, Ontario / by W.J. Wintemberg.  Ottawa : King's Printer, 1936. 178 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GN2 C21 A2 no.83

Daugherty, Wayne

Maritime Indian treaties in historical perspective / by W.E. Daugherty for Research Branch, Corporate Policy, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada.  Ottawa : The Branch, 1981. 90 pages ; 28 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5191 I3 D238 - Open Shelf

Papers of the eleventh Algonquian Conference / edited by William Cowan.  Ottawa : Carleton University, 1980. ii, 293 pages ; 22 cm.

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Sagard, Gabriel

The long journey to the country of the Hurons / by Father Gabriel Sagard ; edited with introduction and notes by George M. Wrong, and translated into English by H.H. George Langton.  Toronto : Champlain Society, 1939. 1939. xlvii, 411, xii pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F80 C35 Sa2

Number 87 of 550 copies. Presented by David and Kay Coutts from the collection of their father, George Coutts. Bibliographical description: pages xli-xliv. Canadian Collection.

Langton, H. H. (Hugh Hornby), 1862-1953
Wrong, George M. 1860-1948. (George McKinnon),

Huron Indians
First Nations of North America — Canada
New France — Discovery and exploration.

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The Valley of the Six Nations : a collection of documents on the Indian lands of the Grand River / edited with an introduction by Charles M. Johnston.  Toronto : Champlain Society for the Government of Ontario, University of Toronto Press, 1964. xcvi, 344 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F80 C35 Ont. series #7

Lafitau, Joseph François

Customs of the American Indians compared with the customs of primitive times / Jospeh François Lafitau ; edited and translated by William N. Fenton and Elizabeth L. Moore.  Toronto : Champlain Society, 1974-1977. 2 v. : facisms. ; 25 cm

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F80 C35 L164

Translation of the orig. French edition, publ., Paris : Saugrain : Charles-Estienne Hochereau, 1724, under title: Moeurs des sauvages ameriquains comparées aux moeurs des premiers temps.

Moore, Elizabeth L
Fenton, William N. (William Nelson), 1908-

First Nations of North America — Canada — Social life and customs
First Nations of North America — Social life and customs
Indians of Central America — Social life and customs
Indians of South America — Social life and customs
Indians

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Larocque, François Antoine

Journal de Larocque de la rivière Assiniboine jusqu'à la rivière Aux Roches Jaune, 1805 / éd. avec des notes par L.J. Burpee.  Ottawa : Impr. de l'état, 1911. 87 pages ; 25 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F80 C16p no.3a

Also published with English title: Journal of Larocque from the Assiniboine to the Yellowstone, 1805. Publié avec l'autorisation du ministre de l'agriculture sous la direction de l'archiviste. L'original publié dans la collection: Publications des archives canadiennes ; no 3. Tables. Quelques remarques sur les sauvages Rocky mountain avec lesquels j'ai passé l'été de 1805.: pages 59-78.

Burpee, Lawrence J., 1873-1946.

First Nations of North America — Great Plains
Crow Indians
Great Plains — Description and travel.

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