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List of First Nations peoples in Canada

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The following is a partial list of First Nations peoples organized by linguistic-cultural area. This list does not include Metis or Canadian Inuit groups. The areas used here are in accordance to those developed by the enthologist and linguist Edward Sapir, and used by the Canadian Museum of Civilization.^[1]

Contents [hide] 1 British Columbia Coast 2 British Columbia Interior 3 Plains 4 Plateau 5 Western subarctic 6 Woodlands and eastern subarctic 6.1 Atlantic coastal region 6.2 St. Lawrence River Valley 7 See also 8 Notes

British Columbia Coast

These people traditionally ate fish, primarily salmon and silvery eulachon from the ocean, as well as fish from lakes and rivers, and roots and berries. Recently discovered clam gardens suggest that they were not limited only to hunting and gathering.'They made use of the forests of the Pacific to build dug-out canoes, and houses made of evenly-split planks of wood. They used tools made of stone and wood. The native peoples of the Pacific coast also made totem poles, a trait attributed to other tribes as well. In 2000 a land claim was settled between the Nisga'a people of British Columbia and the provincial government, resulting in the transfer of over 2,000 square kilometres of land to the Nisga'a. Major ethnicities include the:

• Coast Salish
  
  
  • Nuxálk (Bella Coola; not linguistically Coast Salish)
    
    
    • Kimsquit
    • Tallheo
    • Stuie
    • Kwatna
  • Shishalh (Sechelt)
  • Sḵwxwú7mesh (aka Squamish)
  • Pentlatch (aka Puntledge, extinct)
  • Qualicum
  • Comos-speaking
    
    
    • Sliammon (Mainland Comox)
    • Comos
    • Klahoose
  • Halkomelem-speaking
    
    
    • Cowichan
      
      
      • Somena
      • Quw'utsun
      • Quamichan
      • Clemclemaluts
      • Comiaken
      • Khenipsen
      • Kilpahlas
      • Koksilah
    • Penelakut
    • Lamalcha
    • Musqueam
    • Snuneymuxw (Nanaimo)
    • Tsleil-waututh (Burrard)
    • Sts'Ailes (Chehalis)
    • Stó:lō (Fraser River Salish)
      
      
      • Aitchelitz
      • Leq' a: mel
      • Matsqui
      • Popkum
      • Skway
      • Skawahlook
      • Skowkale
      • Squiala
      • Sumas
      • Tzeachten
      • Yakweakwioose
      • Chawathil
      • Cheam
      • Kwaw-kwaw-Apilt
      • Scowlitz (Scaulits)
      • Seabird Island
      • Shxw'ow'hamel
      • Soowahlie
      • Katzie
      • Kwantlen
      • Kwikwetlem (Coquitlam)
      • Tsawwassen
  • North Straits Salish-speaking
    
    
    • Songhees (aka Songish, aka Lekwungen)
    • T'Souke (Sooke)
    • Semiahmoo
    • Malahat
    • Tsartlip
    • Tsawout
    • Esquimalt
• New Westminster (no language affiliiation)
• Tsimshianic peoples (Northern Mainland)
  
  
  • Tsimshian
  • Gitksan
  • Nisga'a
• Haida
• Southern Wakashan peoples
  
  
  • Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka)
    
    
    • Tla-o-qui-aht (Clayoquot)
    • Hesquiat
    • Mowachaht-Muchalaht
  • Ditidaht
  • Pacheedaht
• Northern Wakashan peoples (Central Coast)
  
  
  • Kwakwaka'wakw
    
    
    • Laich-kwil-tach (Euclataws/Yuculta aka Southern Kwakiutl)
      
      
      • Weewaikai (Cape Mudge)
      • Wewaykum (Campbell River)
    • Koskimo
    • 'Namgis
  • Haisla
    
    
    • Henaksiala
  • Heiltsuk
  • Wuikinuxv (Owekeeno)
• Tsetsaut (extinct)

 British Columbia Interior

• Inland Tlingit
  
  
  • Áa Tlein Kwáan (Atlin people)
  • Deisleen Kwáan (Teslin people)
• Athapaskan
  
  
  • Dakelh (Carrier)
    
    
    • Wet'suwet'en
  • Dene-thah (Slavey)
  • Tsilhqot'in (Chilcotin)
  • Sekani
  • Dunne-Za (Beaver)
  • Nicola Athapaskans (extinct)
  • Tahltan
  • Kaska Dena
• Interior Salish
  
  
  • Nlaka'pamux (Thompson people)
  • Okanagan
  • Secwepemc (Shuswap)
  • Sinixt (Lakes)
  • St'at'imc people (Lillooet) people
    
    
    • Lil'wat
    • Lower Stl'atl'imx
      
      
      • Nequatque
      • In-SHUCK-ch )
• Ktunaxa (Kootenay)

Plains

Main article: Plains Indians

These people traditionally used tipis covered with skins as their homes. Their main sustenance was the bison, which they used as food, as well as for all their garments. The leaders of some Plains tribes wore large headdresses made of feathers, something which is wrongfully attributed by some to all First Nations peoples. Major ethnicies include the:

• Anishinaabe
  
  
  • Plains-Ojibwa
• Blackfoot
  
  
  • Kainai (Blood)
  • North Peigan
  • Siksika
• Dene
  
  
  • Chipewyan
• Nakoda
  
  
  • Assiniboine
  • Stoney
• Plains-Cree
• Tasttine (Beaver)
• Tsuu T'ina (Sarcee)

Plateau

• Ktunaxa (Kootenay)
• Okanagan
• Colville
• Sinixt
• Yakama
• Palus
• Cayuse
• Coeur d'Alene
• Wasco
• Wishram
• St'at'imc (Lillooet)
• Nicola
• Nlaka'pamux (Thompson)
• Secwepemc (Shuswap)

Western subarctic

These peoples live in the boreal forest in what are now Canada's western provinces and territories. They were originally hunter-gatherers dependent on caribou, moose and the fur trade. Most spoke Athapaskan languages except the Crees and Inland Tlingit. Major ethnicities in the Yukon, Northwest Territories and the northern parts of the western provinces (British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba) include the following:

• Cree
• Dene
  
  
  • Chipewyan
  • Sahtu (includes Bearlake, Hare and Mountain peoples)
  • Slavey
  • Tli Cho
  • Yellowknives
• Dunneza (also Dunne-za, Beaver, Tasttine)
• Gwich'in (Kutchin, Loucheaux)
• Hän
• Kaska
• Tagish
• Tahltan
• Inland Tlingit
• Southern and Northern Tutchone

 Woodlands and eastern subarctic

Main article: Eastern Woodlands tribes

Major ethnicies include the:

• Anishinaabe
  
  
  • Algonquin
  • Nipissing
  • Ojibwa
    
    
    • Mississaugas
    • Saulteaux
  • Oji-cree
  • Ottawa (Odawa)
  • Potawatomi
• Cree
• Innu (Montagnais and Naskapi)

Atlantic coastal region

• Beothuk (Newfoundland extinct)
• Innu (Labrador)
• Maliseet
• Mi'kmaq (Micmac)
• Passamaquoddy

 St. Lawrence River Valley

The largest First Nations group near the St. Lawrence waterway are the Iroquois. This area also includes the Wyandot (formerly referred to as the Huron) peoples of central Ontario, and the League of Five Nations who had lived in the United States, south of Lake Ontario. Major ethnicities include the:

• Anishinaabe
  
  
  • Algonquin
  • Nipissing
• Haudenosaunee (Iroquois)
  
  
  • Cayuga (Guyohkohnyo)
  • Mohawk {Kanien'kéhaka)
  • Oneida (Onayotekaono)
  • Onondaga (Onundagaono)
  • Seneca (Onondowahgah)
  • Tuscarora (Ska-Ruh-Reh)
• Munsee branch of the Lenape (Delawares)
• Neutral
• Tobacco
• Wyandot (Huron)

See also

Aboriginal peoples in Canada portal

• Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas
• Indigenous languages of the Americas
• List of First Nations governments
• List of Indian reserves in Canada
• List of Indian reserves in Canada by population
• List of Canadian Inuit
• List of place names in Canada of Aboriginal origin
• Notable Aboriginal people of Canada

The God Helmet

THE GOD HELMET

Todd Murphy, 2007

		The God Helmet is the popular name given to a laboratory apparatus more correctly called the "Koren Helmet", after Stanley Koren of Laurentian University's Neuroscience Department, who built it according to specifications provided by Dr. M.A. Persinger, director. The Koren Helmet applies complex (having an irregular shape) magnetic signals to the head of the person who is wearing it. The Koren Helmet is connected to a PC computer through a 'black box' which cycles the signals through four coils on each side of the head over the temporal lobes of the brain. The temporal lobes are the area of the brain many researchers feel is the source of spiritual and religious experiences. link
		This illustration shows how the signal shifts from one coil to the next. This is a side view. There is also another set of coils working on the other side. The two coils at the top are no longer used. The sessions are done in an Acoustic Chamber - a completely silent room. A large part of the temporal lobes ongoing activity is dedicated to monitoring ambient sound. The temporal lobes are the source of religious and mystic experiences, so that silence helps a great deal in creating these experiences in the lab.
Used as a research tool to investigate the bran's role in religious and mystic experiences, the Koren Helmet has been given the name God Helmet. A few Journalists gave it this name when they learned that some people had visions of God while participating in Koren Helmet experiments. The name has stuck. I asked Dr. Persinger how many people had seen God using the Koren Helmet, and this is what he said in reply: Stanley Koren shows us the most recent version of the God Helmet, which no longer uses a helmet, and has had the unused coils removed. "The problem is producing an environment in which people will report what they experience without anticipating ridicule on the one hand and not encouraging this type of report (demand characteristics) on the other. Thus far, about 20 or so people have reported feeling the presence of Christ or even seeing him in the chamber (The acoustic chamber where the experimental sessions took place). Most of these people used Christ and God interchangeably. Most of these individuals were older (30 years or more) and religious (Roman Catholic). One male, age about 35 years old (alleged atheist but early childhood RC (Roman Catholic) training), saw a clear apparition (shoulders and head) of Christ staring him in the face. He was quite "shaken" by the experience. I did not complete a follow-up re: his change in behavior. Of course these are all reports. What we did find with one world-class psychic who experiences Christ as a component of his abilities was we could experimentally increase or decrease his numbers of his reported experiences by applying the LTP pattern (derived from the hippocampus) over the right hemisphere (without his awareness). The field on-response delay was about 10 to 20 sec. The optimal pattern, at least for this person, looked very right hippocampal. By far most presences are attributed to dead relatives, the Great Forces, a spirit, or something equivalent. The attribution towards along a devil to angel continuum appears strongly related to the affect (pleasant-terror) associated with the experience. I suspect most people would call the "vague, all-around-me" sensations "God" but they are reluctant to employ the label in a laboratory. The implicit is obvious. If the equipment and the experiment produced the presence that was God, then the extrapersonal, unreachable and independent characteristics of the god definition might be challenged." That's the important thing about the God Helmet. Even if only a few people saw God because of it, it creates a host of new questions - questions theology has never had to face before. The experiences of those who have come face-to-face with God might just be an example of a very rare brain activity. If they actually met the true God, then why did they do so in this experimental setting, but not at other times? Can one control God by controlling someone's brain? The implications for theology are obvious. Perhaps God exists, but has been waiting until humanity developed enough to find him in the brain before he would appear under any circumstances humans could control. Perhaps God exists only in our brains. Perhaps he exists, and chose to bless 1% of Dr. Persinger's research subjects with visions of him, because these people were beloved to him. Perhaps he exists, but he appears to those with the right neural history in moments when the right pattern of brain activity is present, and not according to what he sees in their hearts.

There is much more to the God Helmet than just the Koren Helmet alone. There is also a computer program called complex, authored by Stanley Koren, which allows the computer to create the signals. These signals are derived from EEG traces that appear in certain parts of the brain. Just as the brain responds to chemicals with specific shapes, it also responds to magnetic signals with certain shapes. Because these signals are complex, irregular things, it takes a special computer program to produce them. A third component is the acoustic - completely silent - chamber where the sessions take place. The last component is the 'black box' which converts output from the computer into input for the Koren Helmet. This box (not shown) is a specialized DAC (digital-to-analog converter). It's the core of the technology. The rest of the components of the God helmet are quite common.

The God Helmet is a misleading name. It give the impression that it can produce the experience of God. In fact, only one percent of the subjects had the experience. It also passes over the crucial role of sensory deprivation - above all, the completely silent environment provided for the subjects. In contrast to the one percent who saw God, 80% of the subjects felt a presence of some kind, but did not call it God. Of course, there were probably some subjects who experienced an appearance of God, but were shy about saying they had seen God in a laboratory. That kind of thing is not only intensely personal, but can also get you ridiculed. If you saw god, would you tell your story just as it happened if you thought you weren't going to be taken seriously? A lot of people assume that, just because someone wears a lab coat, they won't believe such a vision can happen, or that it's a sign of a mental illness. Nothing could be further from the truth in this laboratory, but how would these subjects know that? They had been told they would be participating in an experiment to study relaxation response, and the experimenters were very careful not to encourage such glamorous reports. Stanley Koren, senior technician for the research group for the last 15 years. The Koren Helmet has also produced visions of demoniac beings, out-of-body experiences, visions of other realities, and a range of other paranormal experiences. It could have been named after any of them, but journalists prefer more sensational names, and you can't get more sensational than God. One question that comes up often about the Koren Helmet is whether it's possible to obtain one. The Koren Helmet exists only in the laboratory where it was made, and is not available to the public. There is a version of the God Helmet you can obtain; the Shiva Neural stimulation System. The Koren Helmet has more coils than are actually used in experiments. The two on the top are no longer in use, and the one in the center - between the four over each temporal lobe - is also no longer used. They are still on the helmet, but they no longer output anything.

A somewhat blurry picture of the sign on the door to the laboratory. The present author is second from the top on the right. Dr. M.A. Persinger is fourth from the top on the left. Stan Koren is third from the bottom on the left. The Koren Helmet uses a snowmobile helmet to hold the coils in place.

God and the brain

God and the Brain - The Persinger 'God Helmet', The Brain, and visions of God.

1:45:46 - 1 year ago

Neurotheology 1 - This talk, called "God and the Brain", is a discussion of the Persinger "God Helmet" (actually the Koren Helmet) and the 8 Coil Shakti. It covers visions of God, Near-Death Experiences, and other themes in neurotheology, the field that integrates neuroscience and spirituality. This is the first of six lectures on Spirituality and the Brain by Todd Murphy, inventor of the 8 Coil Shakti and the Shiva Neural Stimulation system, which duplicates the procedures used in the God Helmet experiments. He has been a member of Laurentian University's Behavioral Neuroscience research group, under the direction of Dr. M. A. Persinger since 1998.

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God on the Brain

Rudi Affolter and Gwen Tighe have both experienced strong religious visions. He is an atheist; she a Christian. He thought he had died; she thought she had given birth to Jesus. Both have temporal lobe epilepsy.

Like other forms of epilepsy, the condition causes fitting but it is also associated with religious hallucinations. Research into why people like Rudi and Gwen saw what they did has opened up a whole field of brain science: neurotheology.

The connection between the temporal lobes of the brain and religious feeling has led one Canadian scientist to try stimulating them. (They are near your ears.) 80% of Dr Michael Persinger’s experimental subjects report that an artificial magnetic field focused on those brain areas gives them a feeling of ‘not being alone’. Some of them describe it as a religious sensation.

His work raises the prospect that we are programmed to believe in god, that faith is a mental ability humans have developed or been given. And temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) could help unlock the mystery.

Magnetic Liquid is Crazy

" A ferrofluid (from the Latin ferrum, meaning iron) is a liquid which becomes strongly polarised in the presence of a magnetic field.
Ferrofluids are composed of nanoscale ferromagnetic particles suspended in a carrier fluid, usually an organic solvent or water. The ferromagnetic nano-particles are coated with a surfactant to prevent their agglomeration (due to van der Waals and magnetic forces). Although the name may suggest otherwise, ferrofluids do not display ferromagnetism, since they do not retain magnetisation in the absence of an externally applied field. In fact, ferrofluids display paramagnetism, and are often referred as being "superparamagnetic" due to their large magnetic susceptibility. True ferromagnetic fluids are difficult to create at present.
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iron dust and vegetable oil, but the properties are pretty amazing. Just don't let it get old - it smells SOOO bad!
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Vaccination – The Hidden Truth

Vaccination - The Hidden Truth

Watch this video on video.google.ca

45:20 - 2 years ago

This is the first half of the shocking but extremely and timelessly informative video documentary "Vaccination - The Hidden Truth" (1998) where 15 people, including Dr. Viera Scheibner (a PhD researcher), five medical doctors, other researchers, and parents' experiences, reveal what is really going on in relation to illness and vaccines. With so much government and medical promotion of vaccination for prevention of disease, ironically the important facts presented here come from the orthodox medicine's own peer-reviewed research, of which a total of well over 100,000 pages has been studied by those interviewed. The result is a damning account of the ineffectiveness of vaccines and their often harmful effects. It shows that parents are not being told the truth by the media, the Health Department and the medical establishment, with a medical doctor, Dr. Mark Donohoe, confessing that "It is a problem for me that I am part of a profession that is systematically lying to people." Find out how vaccines are proven to be both useless and have harmful effects to your health and how they are often erroneously believed to be compulsory. Many people simply refuse to believe the truth regardless of how clear it is, but the impeccable documentation presented in this amazing video has changed the minds of many who have seen it. This first half explains most, but not 100%, of the reason for counterproductive effect of vaccines. The last part of the reason, which also is published in medical research, is in the second half of the video. To view or purchase the whole DVD/video, go to www.vaccination.inoz.com. Please note that this video was very expensive to make and sales and donations support the freely provided Vaccination Information Service, which exists only for the benefit of you and your children. This is the first half of the shocking but extremely and timelessly informative video documentary "Vaccination - The Hidden Truth" (1998) where 15 people, including Dr. Viera Scheibner (a PhD researcher), five medical doctors, other researchers, and parents' experiences, reveal what is really going on in relation to illness and vaccines. With so much government and medical promotion of vaccination for prevention of disease, ironically the important facts presented here come from the orthodox medicine's own peer-reviewed research, of which a total of well over 100,000 pages has been studied by those interviewed. The result is a damning account of the ineffectiveness of vaccines and their often harmful effects. It shows that parents are not being told the truth by the media, the Health Department and the medical establishment, with a medical doctor, Dr. Mark Donohoe, confessing that "It is a problem for me that I am part of a profession that is systematically lying to people." Find out how vaccines ...all » This is the first half of the shocking but extremely and timelessly informative video documentary "Vaccination - The Hidden Truth" (1998) where 15 people, including Dr. Viera Scheibner (a PhD researcher), five medical doctors, other researchers, and parents' experiences, reveal what is really going on in relation to illness and vaccines. With so much government and medical promotion of vaccination for prevention of disease, ironically the important facts presented here come from the orthodox medicine's own peer-reviewed research, of which a total of well over 100,000 pages has been studied by those interviewed. The result is a damning account of the ineffectiveness of vaccines and their often harmful effects. It shows that parents are not being told the truth by the media, the Health Department and the medical establishment, with a medical doctor, Dr. Mark Donohoe, confessing that "It is a problem for me that I am part of a profession that is systematically lying to people." Find out how vaccines are proven to be both useless and have harmful effects to your health and how they are often erroneously believed to be compulsory. Many people simply refuse to believe the truth regardless of how clear it is, but the impeccable documentation presented in this amazing video has changed the minds of many who have seen it. This first half explains most, but not 100%, of the reason for counterproductive effect of vaccines. The last part of the reason, which also is published in medical research, is in the second half of the video. To view or purchase the whole DVD/video, go to www.vaccination.inoz.com. Please note that this video was very expensive to make and sales and donations support the freely provided Vaccination Information Service, which exists only for the benefit of you and your children.

New Earthlike planet discovered Gliese 581c

Too weird to be believed: a new planet in the solar system? BBC science

Who lives in the eleventh dimension? - Parallel Universes - BBC science

"Quantum Teleportation" by Phil Magnini

First organic molecules found on an alien world

Right Brain vs. Left Brain

Right Brain vs. Left Brain

Definition
This theory of the structure and functions of the mind suggests that the two different sides of the brain control two different “modes” of thinking. It also suggests that each of us prefers one mode over the other.
Discussion
Experimentation has shown that the two different sides, or hemispheres, of the brain are responsible for different manners of thinking. The following table illustrates the differences between left-brain and right-brain thinking:

Left Brain		Right Brain
Logical Sequential Rational Analytical Objective Looks at parts		Random Intuitive Holistic Synthesizing Subjective Looks at wholes

Most individuals have a distinct preference for one of these styles of thinking. Some, however, are more whole-brained and equally adept at both modes. In general, schools tend to favor left-brain modes of thinking, while downplaying the right-brain ones. Left-brain scholastic subjects focus on logical thinking, analysis, and accuracy. Right-brained subjects, on the other hand, focus on aesthetics, feeling, and creativity.
How Right-Brain vs. Left-Brain Thinking Impacts Learning
Curriculum–In order to be more “whole-brained” in their orientation, schools need to give equal weight to the arts, creativity, and the skills of imagination and synthesis.
Instruction–To foster a more whole-brained scholastic experience, teachers should use instruction techniques that connect with both sides of the brain. They can increase their classroom’s right-brain learning activities by incorporating more patterning, metaphors, analogies, role playing, visuals, and movement into their reading, calculation, and analytical activities.
Assessment–For a more accurate whole-brained evaluation of student learning, educators must develop new forms of assessment that honor right-brained talents and skills.
Reading
Bernice McCarthy, The 4-MAT System: Teaching to Learning Styles with Right/Left Mode Techniques.
The content on this page was written by On Purpose Associates.

http://www.funderstanding.com/content/right-brain-vs-left-brain

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