Activities of the Canadian Ethnology Service for 1974.

A summary of the activities of the Archaeological Survey of Canada in 1974.

A summary of the activities of the History Division in 1974.

Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Congress of the Canadian Ethnology Society (1979) with contributed papers ranging in topic from semiology to the seventeenth century Iroquois wars to Japanese ghost stories.

This volume presents some of the myths and oratories of the Dunne-za or Beaver of the upper Peace River. The first section offers a discussion of how the Dunne-za adapt the prophet tradition common to northwestern Native peoples to a nomadic hunter lifestyle while the second presents a collection of mythic and oratorical texts.

A historical and ethnographic study of the dynamic musical traditions of the Blood Indians of southwestern Alberta with particular emphasis on the influence and adaptation of Euro-American culture.

A discussion of the different ways in which the Inuit of Rankin Inlet have chosen to adapt to a changing economy.

An examination of the musical traditions of the Inuit of Nain, Labrador. Particular emphasis is placed upon the influence of Moravian missionaries on Inuit performance since 1771, a situation which is compared with that of Christian missionaries on the Inuit of Pangnirtung, Northwest Territories.

The author compares and contrasts the lexicon, phonology, and grammar of dialects spoken in five northwestern Quebec Algonquin communities. Isoglosses of contrasting features are provided in addition to an appendix of supplementary information.

Papers presented at the Second Annual Conference of the Canadian Ethnology Society held in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1975 are offered in two volumes. The first volume includes those which were delivered in the “Myth and Culture” and “The Theory of Markedness in Social Relations and Language” sessions. This second contains those from the “Contemporary Trends in Caribbean Ethnology”, “African Ethnology”, “Anthropology in Canada”, “The Crees and the Geese”, “Early Mercantile Enterprises in Anthropological Perspectives” and “Volunteered Papers” sessions.