Aboriginal Cultures in Alberta: Five Hundred Generations (The University of Alberta Press) - Softcover
This heavily illustrated, full colour historical narrative is a testament to the past 11,000 years of Aboriginal history in Alberta. It conveys the many challenges that Aboriginal people confronted, and celebrates their enduring legacy. Berry and Brink explore grassroots political and cultural movements of the 1960s, contemporary self-government initiatives, and the ongoing reclamation of the Aboriginal voice.
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Susan Berry has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in First Nations communities in California and Alberta, as well as archaeological fieldwork in California and New England. Her areas of specialization are North American material culture, Native North America, industrial history, and vernacular architecture. As curator of ethnology at the Provincial Museum of Alberta, she manages a collection of some 17,000 artifacts. Susan received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley.
Jack Brink is Archaeology Curator at the Royal Alberta Museum. His interests include cultural resource management, Plains archaeology, communal hunting, faunal analysis, large mammal behaviour and anatomy, and Aboriginal relations with archaeology. Long-term projects include the analysis and reporting of archaeological materials from the Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump site, a study of recording and preserving rock art images at Writing-On-Stone Provincial Park, and developing sound relations between Aboriginal groups of Alberta and the archaeological community.
Jack Brink is Archaeology Curator at the Royal Alberta Museum. His interests include cultural resource management, Plains archaeology, communal hunting, faunal analysis, large mammal behaviour and anatomy, and Aboriginal relations with archaeology. Long-term projects include the analysis and reporting of archaeological materials from the Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump site, a study of recording and preserving rock art images at Writing-On-Stone Provincial Park, and developing sound relations between Aboriginal groups of Alberta and the archaeological community.
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- PublisherMichigan State University Press
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0778528529
- ISBN 13 9780778528524
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages92
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