Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Saliva Indians'

The Island Halkomelem Indian people live on the southeastern part of Vancouver Island and on some of the southern Gulf Islands in British Columbia. A total of three hundred two (302) place-names are known to these people today, in their Coast Salish language. Each of these names is transcribed in a practical writing system, corresponding to the pronunciation of the Indian words by some of the thirteen elderly Island Halkomelem people who collaborated on this study. For each geographical name, information regarding its traditional and present utilization by the Indians is given. This data is derived from interviews with the Indian people conducted by the author over a ten year period and also includes all the available information on each place-name from the pertinent ethnographic, linguistic and historical literature. After the information on the place-names is presented a brief analysis of the Indian names is attempted, focusing on a preliminary typology of the names derived from the use, English translations and etymologies of each name. A complete and detailed series of maps is included. The study concludes with some statements about how the Indian geographical toponymy reflects Island Halkomelem culture.
Arts, Faculty of
Anthropology, Department of
Graduate

This study was designed to determine the effectiveness of the 10-week filial therapy model as an intervention for Native American parents and their children residing on the Flathead Reservation in Montana. Filial therapy is an approach used by play therapists to train parents to be therapeutic agents with their own children. Parents are taught basic child-centered play therapy skills and practice those skills during weekly play sessions with their children. The purpose of this study was to determine if filial therapy is effective in: 1) increasing parental acceptance of Native Americans residing on the Flathead Reservation of their children; 2) reducing the stress level of those parents; 3) improving empathic behaviors of those parents toward their children; 4) changing the play behaviors of children with their parents who participated in the training; and, 5) enhancing the self-concept of those children. The experimental group parents (N=11) received 10 weekly 2-hour filial therapy training sessions and participated in weekly 30-minute play sessions with one of their children. The control group (N=10) received no treatment during the 10 weeks. All adult participants completed the Porter Parental Acceptance Scale and the Parenting Stress Index. Child participants completed the Joseph Pre-school and Primary Self Concept Screening Test. Parent and child participants were videotaped playing together in 20-minute videotaped play sessions before and after the training to measure empathic behavior in parent-child interactions and desirable play behaviors in children. Analyses of Covariance revealed that the Native American parents in the experimental group significantly increased their level of empathy in their interactions with their children. Experimental group children significantly increased their level of desirable play behaviors with their parents. Although parental acceptance, parental stress, and children's self concept did not improve significantly, all measures indicated positive trends. In addition, this study gives rise to questions regarding the suitability of current self concept measurement instruments for Native American children and possible cultural differences in parent stress and parental acceptance.

This study addresses the question of the nature of indigenous people's connection to the land, and the implications of this for articulating these connections in legal arenas where questions of Aboriginal title and land claims are at issue. The idea of 'place' is developed, based in a phenomenology of dwelling which takes profound attachments to home places as shaping and being shaped by ontological orientation and social organization. In this theory of the 'senses of place', the author emphasizes the relationships between meaning and power experienced and embodied in place, and the social systems of property and territory that forms indigenous land tenure systems. To explore this theoretical notion of senses of place, the study develops a detailed ethnography of a Coast Salish Aboriginal community on southeast Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Through this ethnography of dwelling, the ways in which places become richly imbued with meanings and how they shape social organization and generate social action are examined. Narratives with Coast Salish community members, set in a broad context of discussing land claims, provide context for understanding senses of place imbued with ancestors, myth, spirit, power, language, history, property, territory and boundaries. The author concludes in arguing that by attending to a theorized understanding of highly local senses of place, nuanced conceptions of indigenous relationships to land which appreciate indigenous relations to land in their own terms can be articulated.

By 1836 both the Presbyterians and the Jesuits had penetrated the Pacific Northwest. The Whitmans and the Spaldings were the first Presbyterians to settle in this region. The Whitmans settled with the Cayuse at W ailaptu near Walla Walla and the Spaldings resided at Lapwaii with the Nez Perce tribe. Although two Canadian priests were working in this region, it was not until 1840, with the arrival of Father Jean-Pierre DeSmet that the Jesuits commenced their missionary work. Fr. DeSmet initially settled with the Flathead tribe in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana. This paper observes how the Jesuits in Montana and the Presbyterians in the Columbia basin related with their respective tribes. With each situation a pattern occurs of tribal acceptance and rejection. The different tribes were initially eager to learn from the missionaries but as the years pass by, the novelty of Christianity wore thin. What became more obvious to the tribal members was that slowly their numbers were diminishing due to disease brought over by white settlers and simultaneously their land was disappearing as the pioneers built their homes. This observation resulted directly in the Native American rejection of the Christian missionaries. The Jesuits and the Spaldings were fortunate to escape without physical harm. This was not the case, though for Dr. Marcus and Narcissa Whitman who lost their lives in the Whitman massacre. To understand the reasons for this rejection, this paper spends the first few chapters looking into the background of the three tribes as well as the missionaries. It then examines the three different tribes and their history with their respective missionaries, observing the reasons, both long and short term for their failures. In the final chapter the paper investigates the obvious yet undocumented competition between the Catholic and Protestant missionaries to be the sole religion in this region. Their co-existence of these two faiths was another factor which resulted in the disillusionment of the Native American tribes in this region.

Narratives serve many functions within a given cultural group. As well as reflecting and transmitting the social values of that group, narratives provide children with a cognitive framework that is an important factor in the learning process. Although the structure of narratives has been described for mainstream children, there is some debate as to whether different cultures share the same narrative structure. A culturally-based difference in narrative structure may contribute to the fact that Native Indian children (as well as children from other minority cultures) are overrepresented among those children who have difficulty in school. The present study set out to investigate whether there was a discernable difference in the structure of narratives told by five Coast Salish children aged 5;0 -8;6 and those told by mainstream children reported in the narrative development research literature. Two types of narratives (personal experience and fictional) were collected and analyzed according to three analysis procedures: high point analysis, which emphasizes evaluation of events; episodic analysis, which emphasizes goal-based action; and poetic analysis, which emphasizes the poetic form of the narratives. The high point analysis revealed that the Coast Salish children ordered events in their stories in a different order than mainstream children do. Both the high point and the episodic analyses showed that the Coast Salish children expressed relationships between events implicitly more frequently than mainstream children. The poetic analysis was the most revealing of potential intercultural differences. This analysis revealed that falling intonation, grammatic closure, lexical markers and shifts in perspective (reference, action, focused participant, time frame, comment, etc.) defined structural units in the narratives of the Coast Salish children. This evidence of structural unit markers was consistent with predictions based on research by Scollon & Scollon (1981, 1984). The results of this investigation have implications for educators and speech-language pathologists in their interaction with Native Indian children. In addition, the results provide a useful indication of the necessary considerations and appropriate procedures for carrying out a more focused study of the narratives of a larger group of Native Indian children.
Medicine, Faculty of
Audiology and Speech Sciences, School of
Graduate

The prevalence of obesity is continually rising in developed countries like the United States. Based on the association between periodontitis and obesity and the relationship between periodontitis and peri-implantitis, it is important to understand the implications of obesity on peri-implant health. A potential relationship between obesity and peri-implant health has practical, biological and financial implications. The primary objective of this study was to determine the association between obesity as measured by the body fat indices (body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), and body fat percent (fat %)) and the levels of inflammatory biomarkers in saliva. In addition, this study explored the correlations between the levels of these biomarkers in saliva versus their corresponding levels in peri-implant sulcular fluid (PISF) and gingival crevicular fluid (GCF) samples collected from the same subjects. Periodontal maintenance patients (N=73) were enrolled in this cross-sectional study. Anthropometric measurements (BMI, WC, and body fat %), intraoral assessment (full mouth plaque index, periodontal, and peri-implant comprehensive examinations) and unstimulated whole saliva samples were collected from the subjects. GCF and PISF were also collected. Levels of interleukin (IL)-1α, IL-1β, IL-4, IL-6, IL-8, IL-10, IL-12(p40), IL-17α, tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α, osteoprotegerin (OPG), letpin and C-reactive protein (CRP) in saliva, GCF and PISF were analyzed using multiplex immunoassays. Statistical analyses were performed to explore the correlations of interest. Data from 63 subjects were included in the analysis. No statistically significant correlations were noted between any of the body fat indices and any of the biomarkers measured in saliva (p>0.05 in all instances). A significant positive correlation was noted between salivary and GCF levels of IL-1α (r=0.29, p=0.0232), IL-8 (r=0.29, p=0.0207) and between saliva and PISF levels of leptin (r=0.32, p=0.0284). The employed linear model also revealed the significant impact of tooth brushing frequency on the salivary levels of IL-1α, IL-1β and TNF-α (p<0.05). Based on this cross-sectional study of 63 patients, I conclude that there was no statistically significant correlation noted between salivary inflammatory biomarkers and any of the obesity measures. However, the levels of key inflammatory markers in saliva strongly correlated with their corresponding levels in GCF/PISF. In addition, frequency of tooth brushing was also related to levels of certain biomarkers in GCF/PISF.

Le présent travail se concentre sur la morphologie rituelle des danses spirituelles d’hiver (/mimelha/) des Salish centraux de la côte, afin de mettre en lumière des mécanismes de l’efficacité thérapeutique. Du diagnostic des symptômes, aux initiations et aux danses, le travail rituel consiste à déterminer une figure intentionnelle – un être surnaturel (/syəwəl/) – tenue pour responsable des souffrances de l’individu (/syəwəl sqaqəy/). Cette imputation d’agentivité à l’origine du mal suit un processus d’objectivation, puis de subjectivation, et enfin de réintégration, lors de la transe finale, de cet agent extérieur comme constituante ontologique du soi (/shxweli/ ou /smestiyexw/). Ainsi l’individu apprivoise l’agent responsable de ses souffrances pour en faire un protecteur et une partie de lui-même. Il acquiert dès lors une maîtrise sur la cause et de l’origine de ses souffrances. En imputant une agentivité extérieure et ouvrant un espace d’interaction avec cette entité, le rituel soulage les individus, via des mécanismes reposant moins sur le paradigme des causes et des explications, que sur celui des raisons, des intentions et de la compréhension
The following work focuses on the ritual morphology of the Coast Salish’s winter spirit dancing (/mimelha/) and looks to highlight the mechanism of therapeutic effectiveness. From the diagnostic, to the initiation and dances, the ritual work is to determine the presence of an agency – a supernatural being (/syəwəl/) – held responsible for the individual’s suffering (/syəwəl sqaqəy/). This imputation of agency at the roots of the suffering follows a process of objectivation, subjectivation, and reintegration, in the final trance, of the external entity as an ontological constituent of the self (/shxweli/ or /smestiyexw/). Thus, the individual transform the agent responsible of his suffering into a protector and a part of himself. He then acquires a power on the cause and origin of his suffering. By designating an external agency, gradually integrated through a number of interactions with ritual agents, the ritual relieves pain, through mechanisms more likely to suit the paradigm of reasons, intentions, and comprehension, than the one of causes and explanations

Nos últimos anos observou-se incremento na incidência e prevalência da insuficiência renal crônica (IRC). Além da grande repercussão bucal que esta alteração sistêmica traz, é importante que esses pacientes tenham sua saúde bucal adequada e controlada, frente à possibilidade eminente do transplante renal. O objetivo deste trabalho foi caracterizar o paciente com IRC atendido no Centro de Atendimento a Pacientes Especiais da Faculdade de Odontologia da Universidade de São Paulo (CAPE-FOUSP), identificando suas manifestações bucais e sistêmicas, analisando os principais índices de saúde bucal e avaliando possíveis correlações entre os aspectos sistêmicos e locais dos pacientes estudados. O estudo foi composto por, anamnese, exame físico, realização de índices (índice de higiene bucal, CPOD, PSR), avaliação clínica do nível de fluxo salivar e exames laboratoriais (uréia pré e pós-hemodiálise, glicemia, creatinina, potássio, fósforo e cálcio séricos). No presente estudo a maior parte dos pacientes localizava-se entre a 4 e 6 décadas de vida (72,72 %), em uma proporção de 2:1 do sexo masculino para o feminino. As principais causas da IRC foram a diabetes mellitus e a glomerulonefrite, com 31,8% cada uma. As principais alterações bucais encontradas foram a gengivite (31,8%), a queilite angular (18,1%), a candidíase eritematosa (18,1%), a abrasão dental (40,9%), a erosão dental (36,3%), a cárie cervical (22,7%), e o bruxismo (4,5%). A maior parte dos pacientes apresentou índice CPOD baixo (54,54%). Em relação ao PSR a gengivite leve apresentou a maior porcentagem (36,4%). O índice de higiene bucal (IHO-S) foi adequada na maior parte dos pacientes (63,63%). Ao avaliar o nível de fluxo salivar estimulado, os valores encontrados ficaram dentro dos parâmetros de normalidade. Nos exames laboratoriais 100% dos pacientes apresentaram nível elevado de creatinina sérica e uréia pré-hemodiálise, observando-se valores ainda elevados da uréia póshemodiálise na maior parte dos pacientes (77,27%). Na maior parte dos pacientes o nível de potássio sérico também estava elevado (68,18%), enquanto os níveis de fósforo (59,09%) e cálcio (77,27%) apresentavam-se normais. Ao fazer a correlação do fluxo salivar com as variáveis tempo da doença, creatinina sérica, cálcio, uréia pré e pós hemodiálise, fósforo, potássio, pressão arterial, glicemia e a idade dos pacientes, observou-se valores de correlação significante positiva com o tempo da doença e a creatinina sérica.Na correlação do fluxo salivar com os índices de higiene oral, índice periodontal, e o índice CPOD não foram encontrados correlações estatisticamente significantes. Os níveis de fluxo salivar correlacionaram-se negativamente com o cálcio e com a idade dos pacientes.
In the last few years there has been an increase in the incidence and prevalence of chronic kidney disease. Therefore it is important that dentists have appropriate knowledge to provide quality dental care. In addition to the significant oral effect brought about by this systemic change, it is important that these patients have appropriate and controlled oral health, in light of the imminent possibility of kidney transplantation. The objective of this study is to assess the oral and systemic manifestations of patients with chronic renal failure and correlate salivary flow and co-morbidities that are present with oral manifestations. The study was made up of clinical examination, anamnesis, physical examination and implementation of indices of oral hygiene, DMFT, PSR and clinical evaluation of the level of salivary flow.In this study, the majority of patients were aged between the 4th and 6th decade of life (72.72%), with a 2:1 male to female ratio. The main causes of CRF were glomerulonephritis and diabetes mellitus (31.8%). The main oral changes were gingivitis (31.8%), angular cheilitis (18.1%), erythematous candidiasis (18.1%), tooth abrasion (40.9%), dental erosion (36.3%), cervical caries (22.7%) and bruxism (4.5%). Most patients had a low DMFT index (54.54%). As regards PSR, mild gingivitis represented the highest percentage at 36.4%. The index of oral hygiene was adequate in most patients (63,63%). When the level of stimulated salivary flow was assessed, the values found were within the parameters of normality. Laboratory tests found that 100% of patients had high serum creatinine and pre-dialysis urea, and there were high values of post-hemodialysis urea in most patients (77.27%). The level of serum potassium was also high. There were significant positive correlation values for the correlation of salivary flow with the disease´s time variables and serum creatinine. In the correlation of salivary flow rates with indices of oral hygiene, periodontal index, and DMFT, there were no statistically significant correlations. The levels of salivary flow correlated negatively with calcium and age of the patients.

This thesis describes the aboriginal and contemporary social organization of the Coast Salish people of southwestern British Columbia and northwestern Washington State, with a focus on the Squamish Nation whose Reserves are situated in North Vancouver and the Howe Sound area. It is based on field research undertaken over a 30-year period and on published and unpublished sources. The thesis explores the construction of kinship and social groups among the Coast Salish, and the transformation of these relationships over time and in various historical circumstances, from the mid-19th century to the present day. Drawing upon the theoretical approaches of William Davenport (1959), Raymond Firth (1963) and Anthony Cohen (1985), among others, the thesis discusses key components of Coast Salish social organization and identity, including a group's contrasting identity and relation to the groups within its ambit of comparison, the association of specific social units with territory, and the expression of status in both traditional and contemporary society. Specific findings document a shift to nuclear family households, the adoption of English kinship terms, the development of hereditary and elected leadership, and the emergence of the Tribe and the First Nation as primary symbols of identity in the 20th century. Some current issues resulting from the impact of change are examined in the context of naming ceremonies and disputes over inherited property, including ancestral names. The thesis argues that the diversity and complexity of neither the traditional nor transformed expressions of Coast Salish social organization find congruence with models of aboriginal society being deployed by contemporary Courts and Treaty negotiators. Issues of territorial "overlap" presently impeding treaty negotiation among BC's Coast Salish peoples were nevertheless predictable, for like some of the world's other cognatic societies, the Coast Salish could hold discrete notions of identity simultaneously. In conclusion, the thesis examines briefly the application to the Coast Salish of Lévi-Strauss' "House-society" as a specific form of social organization.

Cette these illustree presente une interpretation, basee sur des observations personnelles, des cultures amerindiennes haida et coast salish de la cote nord-ouest. Elle etudie dans quelle mesure a survecu depuis la colonisation du xixeme siecle la spiritualite qui s'exprimait autrefois dans la litterature orale, l'art visuel et les ceremonies. Elle compare des recits anciens et sacres a des adaptations recentes parfois controversees. Avec bill reid, auteur et sculpteur haida, elle illustre le lien entre la litterature orale des mythes et legendes et l'art visuel. Elle explore ensuite en detail cet art : dans ses principes generaux puis dans l'etude d'artistes representatifs. Elle montre le fil tenu qui, de charles edenshaw a bill reid, a permis a l'art haida de renaitre et de se transmettre a des artistes tels robert davidson et jim hart : grace a eux, l'art visuel haida passe a nouveau par les ceremonies et acquiert une spiritualite renouvelee. Par contraste, cette these montre comment, chez les coast salish, les ceremonies (secretes) n'ont jamais disparu alors que l'art salish n'est ni aussi developpe ni aussi connu que l'art haida. Elle etudie le cas special de susan point, sculpteur salish de renom, et l'importance du tissage dans le renouveau recent de l'art salish. Elle montre que, si levi-strauss a pressenti la particularite des masques sxwayxwey, wayne suttles a demontre leur vrai role purificateur et spirituel. Elle insiste sur le contraste constant entre apparence et realite dans la culture salish. Elle compare enfin la fonction de l'art religieux amerindien et occidental dans les bestiaires de la cote nord-ouest et de la france du moyen-age
This illustrated dissertation gives an interpretation of two north west coast native cultures (haida and coast salish) based on personal observations. It is a comparative study of past and present artistic and spiritual traditions after a long interruption due to colonization. Oral literature as well as visual art and ceremonies are examined while the links between the three are underlined. The prestigious haida art is studied through the examples of four famous artists : charles edenshaw in the past, bill reid, robert davidson, and jim hart in present days. Coast salish art, though much less developed, is proven highly valuable through the examples of contemporary powerful carver susan point and weavers debra and robyn sparrow who have renewed the former weaving tradition. Close attention is paid to the coast salish need for private spiritual knowledge and to the power of that knowledge expressed in continuing discrete ceremonies (as opposed to the more visible, recently revived ceremonies of the haida). The study of sxwayxwey masks, by levi-strauss and especially by wayne suttles, stresses various aspects of the secretive salish culture and the difference between appearance and reality. Finally, beyond the local context, this dissertation addresses the role of religious art, especially animal representation, on the north pacific coast as compared to medieval art in france. This final discussion on art concludes the dissertation although a few personal remarqs end this paper on a subjective note

Orientadores: Pedro Luiz Rosalen, Francisco Carlos Groppo, Toshihisa Kawai
Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Odontologia de Piracicaba
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Resumo: Doxiciclina (Dox) é um antimicrobiano pertencente à família das tetraciclinas com um amplo espectro de ação contra bactérias Gram-positivas e Gram-negativas. Além de suas propriedades antimicrobianas, Dox é atualmente empregada na periodontia como um modulador da resposta do hospedeiro (MRH), ao inibir a atividade da enzima metaloproteinase de matriz (MMP), a qual está relacionada ao processo de destruição tecidual. Neste contexto, este trabalho teve os seguintes objetivos: 1-determinar os parâmetros farmacocinéticos e integrar os índices PK/PD da Dox para o plasma, fluido gengival (FG) e saliva; 2-analisar os efeitos in vitro e in vivo da Dox sobre a osteoclastogênese com a finalidade de elucidar possíveis propriedades biológicas adicionais deste fármaco como MRH. Para a análise farmacocinética, 12 voluntários receberam dose oral única de 100 mg de Dox. Sangue, FG e saliva foram coletados em tempos pré-determinados e a concentração da Dox nestes fluidos foi determinada por bioensaio. A análise dos principais índices PK/PD da Dox foi realizada considerando o CIM para P. gingivalis. Para o segundo objetivo, o efeito da Dox sobre os processos de diferenciação e ativação osteoclástica foi verificado, respectivamente, pela contagem de células TRAP+ multinucleadas geradas a partir de células precursoras estimuladas com sRANKL na presença ou ausência de Dox e pela análise das lacunas de reabsorção formadas por estas células, quando cultivadas sobre discos de dentina. In vivo, o efeito da Dox sobre a osteoclastogênese foi determinado através da indução deste processo em calvária de camundongo. Solução de sRANKL/LPS foi injetada na região da calvária e os animais receberam, por gavagem, Dox ou placebo diariamente. Após 10 dias, a calvária foi removida para análise histoquímica. Em acréscimo, a atividade da Dox sobre a expressão de genes responsáveis pelos processos de diferenciação e ativação osteoclástica foi analisada por RT-PCR. Durante os experimentos in vitro e in vivo, a produção e atividade da MMP foram verificadas através de Western-blot e Zimograma respectivamente. Os resultados demonstraram que as maiores concentrações de Dox foram observadas no plasma, seguido pelo FG e saliva. A análise dos índices PK/PD da Dox indicou que a dose de 100 mg foi insuficiente para se obter os valores ideais antimicrobianos preconizados na /CIM. Os experimentos in vitro e in vivo sobre o efeito da Dox como MRH demonstraram que este fármaco inibiu os processos de diferenciação e ativação dos osteoclastos. Dox também modulou a expressão de proteínas diretamente relacionadas a osteoclastogênese, incluindo TRAP, Catepsina K e c-Myc. Finalmente, embora a síntese da MMP não tenha sido afetada, a atividade da MMP foi reduzida na presença de Dox. Portanto, os resultados do presente estudo sugerem que uma dose inicial maior do que 100 mg é necessária para alcançar o valor preconizado para ASC/CIM e Cmax/CIM, com a finalidade de se obter os melhores resultados clínicos antimicrobianos. A análise da Dox como MRH indicou que este fármaco pode atuar neste processo não somente pela sua capacidade de inativar a MMP, e sim, por apresentar a propriedade de inibir a diferenciação e ativação osteoclástica, incluindo a modulação de sua expressão gênica. literatura para os parâmetros ASC/CIM e Cmax
Abstract: Doxycycline (Dox), a member of the tetracycline family, is an antimicrobial agent with a broad-spectrum of activity against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. In addition to its antimicrobial properties, Dox is used in the treatment of periodontal diseases as a host response modulator by inhibiting the activity of an important enzyme, matrix metalloproteinase (MMP), which is related to the process of tissue destruction. In this context, this study had the following aims: 1-to determine the pharmacokinetic parameters of Dox and to integrate the PK/PD indices for plasma, gingival crevicular fluid (GCF) and saliva; 2-to analyze the effects in vitro and in vivo of Dox on the osteoclastogenesis and on the osteoclast activation in order to elucidate additional biological properties of Dox on the host response modulation (HRM). Twelve volunteers received single oral administration of Dox (100 mg). Blood, GCF and saliva were collected and the concentrations were measured by bioassay technique. The PK/PD analyses were carried out using the MIC for P. gingivalis. For the second objective, the effect of Dox on the osteoclast differentiation and activation processes was determined, respectively, by the counting of TRAP+ multinuclear cells derived from osteoclast precursory cells sRANKL-stimulated in the presence or absence of Dox and by the analysis of the resorption areas formed by these cells when cultured on dentin discs. In vivo, Dox¿s effect on the osteoclastogenesis was verified using the model of osteoclastogenesis induction in mouse calvaria. sRANKL/LPS was injected in the supra-calvaria area and the animals received Dox or placebo daily by gavage. After the experimental period of 10 days, the calvariae were removed for histochemistry analyses. In addition, the effect of Dox on the expression of genes related to the osteoclast differentiation and activation processes was carried out using RT-PCR technique. MMP production and activity were ensured during in vitro and in vivo experiments by Western-blot and Zymography, respectively. The results demonstrated that Dox achieved the highest concentration in the plasma, following by GCF and saliva. PK/PD analyses showed that the dose of 100 mg was insufficient to get the antimicrobial levels indicated in the literature for AUC/MIC and Cmax/MIC indices. In vitro and in vivo studies of Dox¿s effects on the HRM demonstrated that this drug could inhibit the osteoclast differentiation and activation process. Dox also showed an important property of down-regulation in the expression of proteins directly related to osteoclastogenesis, including TRAP, Cathepsin K and c-Myc. Finally, although Dox did not affect the expression of MMP protein, MMP activity was remarkably decreased by Dox. Therefore, the present study suggests that higher doses than 100 mg would be necessary to obtain effective antimicrobial levels and the effect of DOX on the HRM can be due to not only by MMP inhibition but also by the direct effect on RANKL-mediated osteoclast differentiation and activation, including its gene regulation
Doutorado
Farmacologia, Anestesiologia e Terapeutica
Doutor em Odontologia

L’objectif principal de notre travail était d’évaluer deux nouvelles technologies, l’arcthérapie par la technique Rapid’Arc de chez Varian Medical System® et l’irradiation hélicoïdale avec Tomotherapy Hi-Art de chez Accuray® dans les tumeurs des Voies Aéro-Digestives Supérieures. Dans un premier temps, nous avons montré que ces 2 techniques étaient équivalentes du point de vue de la délivrance de la dose à partir de cas théoriques (30 cas) mais également in vivo à partir d’une population de patients analysée de façon prospective dans le cadre de l’étude nationale ARTORL (115 cas). Puis, nous avons cherché à augmenter le ratio thérapeutique en combinant l’une de ces 2 techniques avec des nouvelles techniques d’irradiation en conditions stéréotaxiques (Cyberknife d’Accuray® et Vero de Brainlab®). Nous avons étudié ensuite la toxicité radio-induite la plus fréquente dans notre population, à savoir la xérostomie. Aucun facteur prédictif de toxicités n’a pu être mis en évidence. Toutefois, nous avons pu créer un modèle prédictif de la fonction de récupération de la glande sous maxillaire, celles-ci étant souvent moins bien protégées. L’ensemble de ces résultats confirme les capacités « conformationnelles » de ces 2 nouvelles techniques innovantes et de leurs équivalences d’un point de vue dosimétrique et surtout clinique. Par ailleurs, cette équivalence dosimétrique de ces deux machines a également été retrouvée dans l’irradiation de tumeur pelvienne, dans le cadre de l’étude prospective ARTPELVIS. Le suivi ultérieur de ces populations permettra de confirmer l’équivalence clinique de ces 2 techniques d’un point de vue carcinologique
The main objectif of our work was to assess two new technologies, arctherapy by Rapid'Arc technology from Varian Medical System® and helical irradiation with Tomotherapy Hi-Art, Accuray® in Head and Neck cancer. First, we showed that these 2 techniques were equivalent in terms of dose delivery from theoretical cases (30 cases), but also in vivo from a population of patients analyzed prospectively included in the national study ARTORL (115 cases). Then, we tried to increase the therapeutic ratio by combining one of these 2 techniques with new techniques for stereotactic irradiation (Cyberknife of Accuray® and Vero Brainlab®). We then studied the most common toxicity in our population, ie xerostomia. No predictif factor could be highlighted. However, we were able to create a predictive model of the recovery function of the sub-mandibular gland, they tend to be less well protected. All these results confirm the "conformational" capacity of these two new innovative techniques, their equivalences dosimetric and especially clinically. These results were confirmed in an another location in the prospective study ARTPELVIS. Subsequent monitoring of these populations will confirm the clinical equivalence of these new technologies

Ce projet vise la documentation et la description du mako, une langue autochtone parlée par environ 1200 personnes dans l’Amazonie vénézuélienne et pour laquelle le seul matériel accessible à date se limite à 38 mots. L’objectif principal est de créer une collection de textes ethnographiques annotés et, à long terme, une grammaire de la langue qui puisse servir comme point de départ pour des activités d’appui au maintien de la langue dans la communauté et pour avancer la recherche linguistique. Un objectif secondaire est d’établir le degré de vitalité de la langue telle que parlée chez les différentes communautés mako. Cette recherche mènera à une description des différents aspects de la grammaire de la langue, par exemple sa phonologie, sa morphologie et sa syntaxe. En plus de contribuer à l’étude et description des autres membres de la famille linguistique sáliba et à la reconstruction de leur proto-langue commune, les données du mako contribueront aussi à des discussions sur comment le langage fonctionne et seront donc un apport précieux pour la théorie linguistique. Cette recherche fera avancer la théorie de la documentation des langues et pourra donc faciliter les efforts de documentation et maintien des langues d’autres communautés indigènes. Le projet constitue une application du modèle de travail de terrain Community-Based Language Research
This dissertation focuses on the documentation and description of Mako, an indigenous language spoken in the Venezuelan Amazon by about 1000 people and for which the only available published material at the start of the project were 38 words. The main goals of the project were to create a collection of annotated ethnographic texts and a grammar that could serve as a starting point for both language maintenance in the community and for further linguistic research. Additionally, the project sought to assess the language’s vitality in the communities where it is spoken and to understand the relationship of Mako to the two other extant Sáliban languages, namely Piaroa and Sáliba.This research has thus led to an assessment of language vitality in the Mako communities of the Ventuari River, a comprehensive description of the Mako language—heretofore undescribed—, and an evaluation of the genetic relationship between the three Sáliban languages. The description of the language covers a wide range of topics in areas such as phonetics and phonology, nominal and verbal morphology, and syntax of both simple and complex sentences. Discourse-level morphology and discourse-organization strategies are also covered. Aside from facilitating the study of other members of the Sáliban family and reconstruction of the common ancestral language, the description of Mako also contributes to the typology of Amazonian languages and to our understanding of the pre-history of this area of the Orinoco basin. The products of this project also have the potential to be mobilized in language literacy efforts in the Mako communities

This thesis examines the impacts of indigenous dispossession from lands and resources by utilizing a concept in ecology, that of ecological keystone species, and extending it to species that play a key, characterizing role in a particular culture or society. A storytelling methodology is used to determine the presence of cultural keystones in stories and place names of Tla'amin peoples, a Northern Coast Salish group whose traditional territory is located along the coast 130 kilometres northwest of Vancouver, British Columbia. I extend the storytelling methodology to encompass film and video projects that exhibit characteristics of Fourth World Cinema and discuss how such films can be used to empower indigenous communities and reclaim cultural and political rights.

This thesis documents the employment history of Sne-nay-muxw women. The Sne nay-muxw, a Coast Salish peoples, live on the southeast coast ofVancouver Island close to the city ofNanaimo. Nanaimo was established by the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1852 as coal mining town. Coal dominated the economy until the early 20th century when forestry related production became important. Today a service economy has eclipsed both the primary and secondary industries. Within these economies a distinct gender, race and class segregation structured Sne-nay-muxw women’s employment opportunities. This study examines the nature of this segregation, the Sne-nay-muxw domestic economy and the gender ideology that promoted both women’s inclusion and exclusion in. wage labour. A central question posed in this thesis is why Sne-nay-muxw women today perceive their traditional roles to be within the home despite their historical participation in the labour force. Feminist anthropology provides the theoretical and methodological approach used for this study. It is accepted that women’s experiences in the labour force are different not only from men but also from other women based upon relational inequalities ofrace and class. Historical data was collected from a variety of sources; published and unpublished government reports, missionary accounts, letters and journals. Nineteen women and eight men were interviewed in the community for both historic and contemporary accounts of employment experiences. History reveals that during the mining economy Sne-nay-muxw women were excluded from working in the mines and limited to employment as domestic servants. The introduction of Chinese labour, decreasing coal demands and increased technology forced many women to migrate with their families to the canneries on the Fraser river and the hop fields in Washington state. In the forestry related production economy, Sne-nay-muxw women’s opportunities were limited despite the expansion of employment for women in the service sector. State policies and inferior education were significant factors in this exclusion. At this time Sne-nay-muxw women continued to migrate with their families to the fish camps on Rivers Inlet and the berry fields in Washington state. In the last two decades the service economy has dominated in Nanaimo. Sne-nay-muxw women have found increasing job opportunities on and off reserve in administration, management and professional service delivery programs. While this employment is part of the wider trend for women in the service economy, Sne-nay-muxw women’s opportunities remain segregated by gender, race and class. Women’s participation in the labour force is shown to be linked to the organization of their domestic economy. Before 1920 this economy incorporated both subsistence production and farming with seasonal wage labour. After this time the Sne-nay-muxw became increasingly dependent upon wage labour. However, extended family and kinship networks have remained important for support and cooperation. This form ofhousehold organization did not constrain women’s participation in the labour force. Today extended families remain the central organizing principle in Sne-nay-muxw lives. Sne-nay-muxw women’s identity and opportunities for education and employment remain linked to their membership in these families. Shifts in women’s participation in the labour force is shown to be accompanied by acceptance of a domestic ideology. During the mining economy when women actively sought wage labour, they acquired domestic skills needed for wage labour but did not accept an ideology that promoted their dependency upon men. Historical evidence indicates that they retained a significant degree of autonomy in their lives. With men’s increased security of employment in the forestry economy, the idealized role ofwomen as housewives was promoted. Families that were able to realize women’s exclusion from the labour force gained status and prestige in the community. Finally, in the service economy, the Sne-nay-muxw gender ideology includes women’s participation in the labour force to occupations linked to their domestic and nurturing roles.

Coast Salish coiled basketry has been a much-neglected area of research. Previous investigations into this topic have been primarily concerned with geo-cultural distributions, and discussions pertaining to stylistic attributes. In recent years several scholars have turned their attention to the topic of Salish weavings, but they have focused their efforts quite narrowly on textiles made from wool and other similar fibres to the exclusion of weaving techniques such as basketry which utilise local roots and barks. This thesis will focus exclusively on one type of Salish basketry - coiled basketry. In this thesis I explore different ways of identifying, or "knowing", Coast Salish coiled cedar root basketry. I specifically focus on Sto:lo basketry and identify three ways in which Sto:lo basket makers "know" these objects. First I discuss the Halkomelem terminology and what insights it provides to indigenous classification systems. Secondly, I situate coiled basketry in a broader Coast Salish weaving complex in order to discuss how basketry is influenced by other textile arts. This also enables me to explore how Sto:lo weavers identify a well-made object. In the final section I discuss ownership of designs by individuals and their families. This research draws primarily from interviews conducted with Sto:lo basket makers between May and September 2000 in their communities and at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC. It is supplemented by interviews with basket makers from other Salish communities and by the ethnographic literature on this topic.

In the past, the Ministry of Social Services and Housing has placed many native children from the Seabird Island Band, a Salish band in the Sta’lo Nation, in permanent placement or adoption off the reserve. Government agencies imposed a system of child welfare that superseded Seabird Island adoption practices. The Seabird Island Band members would prefer to see these children placed within the band through ‘custom’ adoption. In apprehension and placement court cases, the band social worker has needed documented information defining ‘custom’ adoption, and data regarding the benefits of this Seabird Island process. This thesis investigates and documents the process and results of adoption on the Seabird Island Indian Reserve. This thesis begins with a brief history of Canadian adoption policy as it applies to First Nations people. The thesis is based on detailed taped interviews with Seabird Island Band members who had experienced foster care and/or adoption. This fieldwork was the result of negotiation with the Seabird Island Band to discover the type of research that they needed. The thesis documents four kinds of adoption experience of the Seabird Island members: foster care, closed legal adoption, open adoption, and ‘custom’ adoption. In my analysis of these adoption experiences, three main themes occur: (1) issues of ethnic identity, (2) power and the child welfare system, and (3) the definition and functions of ‘custom’ adoption. The thesis concludes that the imposed system of child welfare based on Euro-western ideas of appropriate child care may have destroyed or seriously damaged some Seabird Island Band members’ sense of ethnic identity. As well, it may be a factor in the break-up of the extended family. ‘Custom’ adoption, as defined by Seabird Island Band members, offers an alternate model for keeping apprehended Seabird Island children within the band. Open adoption, as defined by the pilot project documented, is an alternative for those children who cannot be returned to the band. I have made several recommendations in the conclusion for the Seabird Island Band’s consideration.

This thesis provides a model for understanding how social classes arose in the Gulf of Georgia area. This model distinguishes how social status in rank and a class societies are manifested and maintained in non-state, kin-based societies, drawing mainly from ethnographic descriptions. The relationship between the living and the dead for making status claims in both rank and class societies makes the archaeological study of mortuary ritual important for investigating these relationships. I propose that burial mounds and cairns, which were prominent in the region from 1500 to 1000 years ago, reflect a time when status differentiation was defined mainly through social rank. Following this period, when all forms of below-ground burials cease and above-ground graves become the dominant form of mortuary practice, I propose that the historically recorded pattern of social class emerged. Archaeological investigations of the burial mounds and cairns at the Scowlitz site have provided the first fully reported instances of mound and cairn burials in this region. Using less well reported data from over 150 additional burial mounds and cairns reported from other sites in the region, evidence for the nature of status differentiation sought out. Patterns in the burial record are investigated through discussing variation within classes of burials, demography and deposition, spatial patterning, grave goods, and temporal variation. These patterns and changes are then discussed within the context of the larger culture history of the region, suggesting that the late Marpole or Garrison sub-phase may be defined as ending around 1000 BP with the cessation of below-ground burial practices. The general patterns observed in mound and cairn burials and the changes in mortuary ritual subsequent to their being built generally support the idea of a shift from a rank to a class society. The thesis provides a basis for further investigation of questions of social status and inequality in the Gulf of Georgia region.

This thesis focuses on the production and display of weavings made by a small number of Musqueam women, who in the 1980s began weaving in the tradition of their ancestors. It addresses the way in which these weavings, positioned throughout Vancouver and worn in public settings, build a visual presence to counter the exclusion of Coast Salish cultural representations from the public construction of history in Vancouver and the discourse of Northwest Coast art. The Vancouver International Airport and the Museum of Anthropology at the University o f British Columbia both share with Musqueam a history of place. A distinct relationship fostered between Museum staff and members of the Musqueam community has yielded several exhibits since the first, Hands of Our Ancestors: The Revival of Weaving at Musqueam, opened in 1986. The presence of Musqueam material at the Museum is part of an extensive history of interaction and negotiation between Canadian museums and the cultural communities whose histories, traditions and material culture are represented - a history which encompasses issues of representation, authorship and authority. The Vancouver International Airport is also situated on Musqueam traditional territory. Designed by representatives from the Musqueam Cultural Committee and the Airport project team, the international arrivals area features works of contemporary Musqueam artists which are intended to create a sense of place with an emphasis on the distinctiveness of its location. Travelers cross several thresholds in the terminal - the sequence o f these crossings carefully choreographed so that deplaning passengers pass from the non-space of international transience to a culturally specific space marked by Musqueam's cultural representations, and then past Customs into Canada. Certain incidents at these sites indicate that visibility and self-representation do not in themselves answer the problems of power and history. When the Museum of Anthropology hosted a meeting for leaders of the Asia Pacific Economic Community in 1997, a newly implemented protocol agreement between Musqueam and the Museum was broken; and in a number of instances, achievements at the Airport have also been impaired. Despite these limits, weavings are not examples of token native inclusion as some critics argue. Rather, they are cultural representations strategically deployed by the Musqueam community. Enlarged from traditional blankets to monumental hangings, these weavings participate with other more recognized monumental Northwest Coast forms. They are visual, public signifiers of Musqueam identity which, without violating boundaries between public and private knowledge, carry messages from the community to a broader audience - messages intended to mark Musqueam's precedence in Vancouver's past as well as to claim visibility in the present.

Landscape is a medium of expression and a reflection of the beliefs of the people who inhabit it. It carries symbolic meanings that emerge from the values by which people define themselves; values grounded in culture. These symbols stem from elements of the natural environment, stories passed on through generations, or from experiences interacting with others. The indigenous peoples of Canada have a culture rich in traditional art, ceremony, and sustainable development and holistic integration of landscape. Contemporary First Nation culture draws from this past to inform the future. This phenomenon exemplifies the necessity for cultural expression in First Nation landscapes of today. The Semiahmoo First Nation in Lower Mainland British Columbia is a Coast Salish group occupying approximately 380 acres of land on the Pacific coastline. River and estuarine habitats, significant species richness and dense vegetation characterize the area and identify the primary motive for Semiahmoo traditional encampment on its shores. Changes in the past century have included colonial settlement to the region, periods of industrial and resource economies, a decrease in band population and subsequent decline in cultural practices. Current increasing recreation and development interests have created urgency for the reawakening of cultural expression in the landscape. Initial literature research about First Nations in Northwest Canada and a biophysical analysis provided introductory information, followed by community discussions which provided a deeper understanding of the people and of the place. A design vocabulary of traditional and contemporary elements was composed to guide and unify the program and spatial components of the design. The resulting design focuses on the public realm of the Reserve clearly defining Semiahmoo identity and sense of place. Land use issues were addressed and delineated public and private areas, ecological enhancements and displayed potential for growth on the site. The design respects the bicultural interface of the Reserve while providing cultural and environmental education. The First Nation value system possesses a tangible and spiritual quality; rooted in the creatures and elements of their surroundings. Expression of the Semiahmoo peoples' beliefs and values in the landscape enriches the experiential qualities of the place and reverence for its past and future.

This ethnographic research project examines the re-creation, performance and dissemination of identity through performance (storytelling, song, and dance) at a tourist site, Hiwus Feasthouse. In general, this thesis examines how the Salish negotiate meaning and significance through performance. The overall objective is to explore what Hiwus, as a site for creating and performing identity, means to the Coast Salish people who work there. This thesis demonstrates how the Salish at Hiwus have a great deal of agency in terms of the content of performances, unlike many other tourist sites where the corporation often controls the program. I suggest that the Salish employees express layers of a "meshed identity" - local, ethnic-tribal, Canadian, and pan-Indian - at different times throughout the performances. I also suggest that the First Nations people at Hiwus deconstruct the "imaginary Indian" via performance and valorize their own re-imagination of history and identity. I propose that they do this by drawing on Salish epistemology and world-views. In particular, I demonstrate how Salish understandings of "place" and the use of a "ceremonial framework" at Hiwus provide the Salish a way of sorting through multiple zones of contact. This thesis contributes to the anthropological literature on tourism in that it focuses on First Nations people's agency, views, and perspectives. I also challenge problematic terms such as authenticity, "staged authenticity," and tradition. The current literature on tourism lacks a workable theoretical framework for examining the dialogical interactions at tourist sites. I attempt to deal with this dilemma by drawing on my own ethnographic data, complemented by the existing ethnographic literature, to examine how the Salish perform identity and culture at Hiwus.

This dissertation historicizes and explains the tensions that arose between localized and regionally dispersed expressions of group affiliation and political authority among the indigenous people of the Lower Fraser River watershed after European contact. It accomplishes this by directly engaging indigenous historiography and epistemology. The period examined covers the late eighteenth century, just prior to the first smallpox epidemic, through to 1906 when a delegation of Salish men met with King Edward in London on behalf of all the Native people of British Columbia. I argue that Aboriginal collective identity and political authority are and were situationally constructed products of complicated negotiations among indigenous people and between Natives and newcomers. Multiple options were always available and the various expressions that shared identity assumed never were the only ones possible. Consequently, among the local indigenous population, history has always been regarded as an important arbitrator of identity and disagreements over competing historical interpretations highly contentious. To a greater extent than has been appreciated, changes in the way Native collective affiliations have been constituted have been informed by reference to ancient sacred stories and an ongoing process of interpreting past precedence. They are also intimately linked to migrations. Over time and across geography, different indigenous people have used these stories to different ends. Gendered and class-based distinctions in the way these narratives have been applied to either the creation of innovative collective identities or to the defense of older expressions reveal the tensions within Aboriginal society and between Natives and newcomers that arose as indigenous people struggled to make sense of a rapidly changing colonial world. The uncertainty following pivotal historical events allowed these submerged tensions to assume more public forms. Examined here are the important identity shaping historical events and migrations that indigenous historiography has emphasized: Creation, the Great Flood, the 1780 smallpox epidemic, the establishment of local Hudson's Bay trading posts in 1827 and 1846, the 1858 goldrush, the imposition of colonial reserves, the banning of the potlatch, the 1884 hostile incursions into Canadian Native communities of an American lynch mob, and the government policy to transform Salish fishermen into western-style farmers. Ultimately, Western ideologies, colonial authority and global economic forces are considered as forces acting within indigenous society, and not merely as exogenous powers acting upon

The concern of this thesis is the position of people of alternative genders in Coast Salish culture, not only in the past, but in the present. How were individuals with such a difference treated? What forces constrained them? What factors afforded them opportunity? Were such genders even recognized? With these questions in mind, field work was conducted with the permission of the Std: Id Nation throughout the summer of 1998. This paper is based on interviews conducted then and subsequent interviews with people from other Coast Salish groups. In addition, local ethnographic materials—with reference to field notes whenever possible—and traditional stories were analyzed from the perspective of Coast Salish epistemology. Alternative genders need to be understood foremost in the cultural contexts in which they occur, only then can comparisons proceed from a secure foundation. Research revealed a paradoxical situation. Oral traditions in which the alternately gendered are despised, occur side-by-side with traditions in which such people were honoured for the special powers they possessed. Individuals and families operated in the space generated by this paradox, playing the "serious games" to which Ortner alludes (1996:12-13). The absence of a "master narrative" in Coast Salish culture accounts for some, but not all of these contradictions. Equally relevant are persistent patterns of secrecy, personal autonomy, kin solidarity, differential status, and differential gender flexibility that both restrict the social field and offer stress points that were, and are, manipulated in individual and collective strategies. Given a world view in which transformation was the norm, and in which the disadvantaged could become powerful overnight by revealing the power they had hidden, some alternatively gendered people were able to maximize their potential and become significant forces. No formal roles offered sanction, instead an ad hoc approach marked the response to alternative genders and the outcome rested on the position of the individual and her/his family, and their ability to maneuver within multiple constraints. It was this potential to transform a stigmatized status into an honoured role that made the position of the alternatively gendered paradoxical.

In the study of the economic and labour history of the West Coast Native people of British Columbia most research has centered on activities such as fishing, farming and forestry. This thesis turns the attention from what was primarily men's work in the dominant society to the Coast Salish wool working industry where women worked with the help of their children and husbands. I examine the significant economic and cultural contribution Coast Salish woolworkers had on West Coast society, the meeting place woolworkers' sweaters provided between the Coast Salish and the newcomers and the changes which took place in the industry during the last century. This story includes many voices most of which are recorded in newspapers, correspondence and journals, and in the memories of those that lived and worked in the industry.

The primary objective was to predict the relative storage capacity of carbonate rocks relevant for carbon dioxide sequestration. To achieve this, a detailed pore scale characterization of model carbonate rocks, Indiana Limestone and Pink Dolomite, was conducted utilizing micro-computed tomography (microCT) data using pore network modeling and invasion percolation simulations. For the first time in literature, Pink Dolomite’s pore space characteristics were analyzed. A secondary objective was to compare thresholding techniques as applied to carbonates which exhibit dual porosity (porosity at multiple length scales). The analysis showed the sensitivity of existing methods to the thresholding technique, imaging method and material. Overall, the contributions of this work provide an assessment of two carbonates relevant for carbon capture and storage at the pore scale; and a preliminary assessment into thresholding dual porosity carbonates.

This dissertation presents the first full grammatical description of unprompted (spontaneous) speech in pidgin Chinook Jargon [synonyms Chinúk Wawa, Chinook]. The data come from a dialect I term ‘Kamloops Chinúk Wawa’, used in southern interior British Columbia circa 1900. I also present the first historical study and structural analysis of the shorthand-based ‘Chinuk pipa’ alphabet in which Kamloops Chinúk Wawa was written, primarily by Salish people. This study is made possible by the discovery of several hundred such texts, which I have transliterated and analyzed. The Basic Linguistic Theory-inspired (cf. Dixon 2010a,b) framework used here interprets Kamloops Chinúk Wawa as surprisingly ramified in morphological and syntactic structure, a finding in line with recent studies reexamining the status of pidgins by Bakker (e.g. 2003a,b, forthcoming) among others. Among the major findings: an unusually successful pidgin literacy including a widely circulated newspaper Kamloops Wawa, and language planning by the missionary J.M.R. Le Jeune, O.M.I. He planned both for the use of Kamloops Chinúk Wawa and this alphabet, and for their replacement by English. Additional sociolinguistic factors determining how Chinuk pipa was written included Salish preferences for learning to write by whole-word units (rather than letter by letter), and toward informal intra-community teaching of this first group literacy. In addition to compounding and conversion of lexical roots, Kamloops Chinúk Wawa morphology exploited three types of preposed grammatical morphemes—affixes, clitics, and particles. Virtually all are homonymous with and grammaticalized from demonstrably lexical morphs. Newly identified categories include ‘out-of-control’ transitivity marking and discourse markers including ‘admirative’ and ‘inferred’. Contrary to previous claims about Chinook Jargon (cf. Vrzic 1999), no overt passive voice exists in Kamloops Chinúk Wawa (nor probably in pan-Chinook Jargon), but a previously unknown ‘passivization strategy’ of implied agent demotion is brought to light. A realis-irrealis modality distinction is reflected at several scopal levels: phrase, clause and sentence. Functional differences are observed between irrealis clauses before and after main clauses. Polar questions are restricted to subordinate clauses, while alternative questions are formed by simple juxtaposition of irrealis clauses. Main-clause interrogatives are limited to content-question forms, optionally with irrealis marking. Positive imperatives are normally signaled by a mood particle on a realis clause, negative ones by a negative particle. Aspect is marked in a three-part ingressive-imperfective-completive system, with a marginal fourth ‘conative’. One negative operator has characteristically clausal, and another phrasal, scope. One copula is newly attested. Degree marking is largely confined to ‘predicative’ adjectives (copula complements). Several novel features of pronoun usage possibly reflect Salish L1 grammatical habits: a consistent animacy distinction occurs in third-person pronouns, where pan-Chinook Jargon 'iaka' (animate singular) and 'klaska' (animate plural) contrast with a null inanimate object/patient; this null and 'iaka' are non-specified for number; in intransitives, double exponence (repetition) of pronominal subjects is common; and pan-Chinook Jargon 'klaksta' (originally ‘who?’) and 'klaska' (originally ‘they’) vary freely with each other. Certain etymologically content-question forms are used also as determiners. Kamloops Chinúk Wawa’s numeral system is unusually regular and small for a pidgin; numerals are also used ordinally in a distinctly Chinook Jargon type of personal name. There is a null allomorph of the preposition 'kopa'. This preposition has additionally a realis complementizer function (with nominalized predicates) distinct from irrealis 'pus' (with verbal ones). Conjunction 'pi' also has a function in a syntactic focus-increasing and -reducing system.
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In addressing the necessity of cultural transmission from one generation to the next, this ethnographic study examines ways that Indigenous canoe journeys enable communication of ancestral teachings and traditions, particularly to Kw‟umut Lelum youth. The objective is to identify how experiences and interactions within Indigenous canoe journeys, specifically Tribal Journeys, can connect youth to traditions, environments, Elders, other individuals, and each other. Drawing on interviews with adults and participant observation, I consider relational themes of self and identity to explore the cultural impact on the young people as they participate in Tribal Journeys 2010 and symbolic ceremonies within it. Through qualitative inquiry and inductive reasoning, this interpretive epistemological approach includes concepts specific to the Indigenous research paradigm and uses a performative narrative to present results. Kw‟umut Lelum Child and Family Services is a society committed to the well-being of Indigenous children residing within nine Coast Salish communities on Vancouver Island. The agency focuses on family, community, and sacredness of culture as guided by the Snuw‟uy‟ulh model, which uses the teachings of the present to unite the past and future. Tribal Journeys is a significant cultural event that upholds the Snuw‟uy‟ulh principles while facilitating the communication of ancestral teachings and traditions. Keywords: Indigenous, canoe, youth, culture, tradition, Coast Salish, narrative, perform

Duwamish people are “the People of the Inside,” “the Salmon People”—Coast Salish people who occupied a large territory inside the Olympic Mountains and the Cascade range. Ninety Longhouses were situated where Seattle and several neighbouring cities now stand. Today, over six hundred Duwamish are urban Indigenous people without legal recognition as an American Indian tribe, still battling for rights promised by the Point Elliott Treaty of 1855. Portrayals of Duwamish history since the time of colonization are often incomplete or incorrect. A tribe member myself, I set out to record and present family stories concerning the period 1850 to the present from participants from six Duwamish families. I gathered histories told in the words of the people whose family experiences they are. It is history from a Duwamish perspective, in Duwamish voices. Collected family stories are recorded in the appendices to my dissertation. In my ethnographic study, I inquire as to what strengths have carried Duwamish people through their experiences since colonization. The stories reveal beliefs and practices which have supported the Duwamish people, and hopes for the future. Data was gathered using multiple methods, including fieldwork—visiting a master weaver; attending tribal meetings; and visiting historic sites—reading existing documents by Duwamish authors and by settlers, and interviewing, including looking at photos to elicit information. Five themes emerged from the data: Finding a True History; What Made Them Strong; Intermarriage; Working for the People; and Working with the Youth. These themes together constitute what I term the Indigenous Star of Resilience (see Figure One in Chapter Six). For me, this study has truly been swit ulis uyayus—“work that the Creator has wrapped around me” (Vi Hilbert, quoted in Yoder, 2004); work that is a gift.
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