Product Description: Alzheimer’s is a devastating illness – this much is clear. What is not often mentioned is the effect it has on the caretaker. Part journal, part guide, A LIFE FORGOTTEN chronicles the story of one wife as she tries to lovingly guide her husband through the maze of Alzheimer’s...read more

Product Description: Garments made from tanned animal hides afforded Northern Athapaskans protection against a harsh northern environment, but the striking features of this clothing are also a distinctive part of the traditional culture of the Indigenous peoples of North America's western subarctic...read more

Product Description: Recording Their Story describes the life and work of groundbreaking ethnologist James Teit and the key collections of Tahltan materials he gathered in the early 1900s, including stories and songs. Teit? connection to the Canadian Museum of Civilization and his ethnographic work among the Tahltan of northern British Columbia began in 1911...read more

Product Description: In earlier times, net bags made from caribou thong - today known as "babiche bags" - were commonplace items in Dene homes. Although intended for practical use, these bags were often beautifully decorated with porcupine quillwork, fringes and coloured patterns in the netting...read more

Product Description: Baskets made from coiled spruce roots once were commonplace items in many Dene homes. The craft died out, however, in the nineteenth century, as copper kettles became available through trade with Europeans. By the end of the twentieth century, all that remained to attest to this ancient tradition were a few baskets in museum collations...read more

Product Description: Perspectives on Northern Northwest Coast Prehistory investigates paleoenvironmental influences on human settlement, theoretical concepts involved in northern Northwest Coast research, and the interplay of aboriginal oral traditions and archaeological findings...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Icelandic-Canadian Popular Verse features 274 verses and poems, both originals and translations, that reflect Icelandic immigrant life on the Prairies. Recorded in western Canada, Washington, and North Dakota in 1966-1969, these verses and poems convey the thoughts and experiences of Icelandic immigrants and their descendants...read more

Product Description: Book by Thompson, Judy