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Fresno Armenians (to 1919)Book 1965 • Wallis, Wilson D. & Davidian, Nectar
North American Armenians • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
This work is a general study of Armenian culture history, focussing on the Armenian population of Fresno, California (as of 1919). Wallis discusses immigration patterns, areas of settlement in the United States, economic pursuits (e.g., fig and melon...The Micmac Indians of eastern Canadabook chapter 1955 • Wallis, Wilson D. (Wilson Dallam) & Wallis, Ruth Sawtell
Mi'kmaq • North America > Eastern Woodlands
This monograph is the result of fieldwork by Wallis originally in 1911-1912, and a revisit by Wallis and his wife in 1953 to see what changes had occurred in the intervening 40 years. The monograph is divided into two parts: the first, Tribal Life, c...Culture loss and culture change among the Micmac of the Canadian Maritime Provinces 1912-1950article 1953 • Wallis, Wilson D. (Wilson Dallam) & Wallis, Ruth Sawtell
Mi'kmaq • North America > Eastern Woodlands
This paper was written in an attempt to study the extensiveness of culture loss in Micmac society over a period of thirty-eight years, from the time the author first studied these people in 1911-1912 to his second field trip to the Micmac in 1950. Th...