Item is a video recording of a Gaelic Language and Culture Series. This tape focuses on the gathering of the clans. It was recorded by Peyton Chisholm during a Young Canada Works summer grant in 1979; includes interviews with Jim St. Clair, Peter MacKay Campbell, Rosemary Hutchinson, and Jim Kelly.
Tracklisting:
000-Relationship between tourism & culture, 016-Gathering of the clans, historical information, tourism and a plastic version of culture, 049-Gaelic languages, history in Scotland & Britain, 067-Scottish Gaelic, it's development, shifting of the centre of cultural poser to London, 135-Battle of Culloden: 1745, 147-The Roots of the Clan system, 153-how the clan divisions came about, 160-selection of clan chiefs, 169-the hierarchy of power in the clans, how the clan system worked at the time just before the clearances, 241-The Clan System, 260-an early Scottish Society, 260-how a chief was chosen, 270-the authority of the clan chief, 296-the abolition of the clan system: when and why, 328-Culloden (last stand for the clans), 330-split between the Highland and Lowland Scots, 364-The Lowland Scotts, the separation of the Highland and Lowland Scots, 398-Highland People and religion, 401-the role of religion in the life of the Celts, 419-conversion of Scotland to Christianity and the survival of paganism, 430-The take over of Scotland by Britain, erosion of its culture and identity, 442-King James (union of crowns), 449-1707 (Treaty of Acts of Union), 468-three choices re union and the decision of parliamentary union, the deliberate steps taken after Colladen so that the clan system would not be built up again, 473-wholesale massacre by the Duke of Cumberland, 486-Clearances, rational behind the clearances, 498-description of the clearances, 513-the springing up of woolen mills in Lowland Scotland and England and its consequences, 529-use of Highland Scotland as sheep grazing land, 541-leasing of Highland lands by Lowland Scots and British Businessmen, 551-Clearances, taking of highland lands, how the clearances affected the communal land systems of the Highlands, 590-Treatment of the Highland Scots by the British, British attitudes, Highland Scots had no choice either fall into sea or go on boats, 627-Scottish, Immigration, 630-Earl of Selkirk-settlers to PEI and Red River, 640-Chisholms in Antigonish County, 644-MacDonalds, 649-the conditions under which the Scotts crossed the Atlantic, 664-MacDonalds who left the Heberdies, 678-Scots in Cape Breton, the Scots and the Cape Breton forests, 688-how the Clan System fits into 20 century Cape Breton culture, 695-why very few record survived re the early immigrations, 701-Cape Breton Crafts, the perpetuation of Scottish culture through crafts in Cape Breton, 711-making pottery, 722-craft shows