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'Always with Them Either a Feast or a Famine': Living Off the Land with Chipewyan
Beyond Boundaries: Aboriginal Peoples and the Prairie West, 1850 to 1885
The Buffalo People: Prehistoric Archaeology on the Canadian Plains
Canada – Indian and Inuit Communities – Prairie Provinces
Canadian "Range Wars": Struggles over Indian Cowboys
Categories and Terrains of Exclusion: Constructing the "Indian Woman" in the Early Settlement Era in Western Canada
Cold Lake First Nation, Primrose Lake Air Weapons Range Inquiry, Public Release
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Consists of minutes, transcripts, statements, correspondence/letters, submissions, and reports regarding the historical claim grievances of two First Nations who had 4,500 square miles of land seized to create the weapons range. Commissioners include: Harry S. LaForme, Daniel J. Bellegarde, and P.E. James Prentice. [These files were created and compiled by the ICC and provided to the Indigenous Studies Portal in 2009 to make widely available in online format.]
Conflict or Cooperation?: Blackfoot Trade Strategies, 1794-1815
[Crime Report re Little Pine Reserve Indians ... Alleged Sun Dance]; [Re: Indian Sundance, Rocky Mountain House District, Alberta]
First document is a report written by Kingston, dated July 6, 1928, asks for instructions regarding whether or not participants should be charged given the fact that the event did not appear to violate the Indian Act. Second document is a letter by McCormack, describing ceremonies which took place at Rocky Mountain House and Hobbema, Alberta.
Czapla Music
The Exodus from Kitaskinaw School
Examines the shift from a 70% non-Indigenous student population in 1970's to only 3% by 1991 at the Kitaskinaw school located on the Enoch reservation.
The Failure of the Red Deer Industrial School
The French Presence in the West, 1734-1874
From Wooden Ploughs to Welfare: How Indian Policy Failed in the Prairie Reserves
From Wooden Ploughs to Welfare: Why Indian Policy Failed in the Prairie Provinces
The Future of Aboriginal Urbanization in Prairie Cities: Select Annotated Bibliography and Literature Review on Urban Aboriginal Issues in the Prairie Provinces
Good Intentions, Debatable Results: Catholic Missionaries and Indian Schooling in Hobbema, 1891-1914
Histoire de Saint-Boniface, Tome I, À l'Ombre des Cathédrales: des Origines de la Colonie Jusqu'en 1870
How the (North) West Was Won: Development and Underdevelopment in the Fort Chipewyan Region
The Indian Agents of Fort Chipewyan: Bureaucrats in Isolation
Introduction to Document One
Introduction and letter from Indian Agent dated June 4th, 1895 to his superior regarding abuse taking place at the school. Recommends that a teacher should be brought before the Magistrate, fined, and dismissed.
Introduction to Documents Two and Three
Introduction and two archival items discuss the employment of Aboriginals in the agricultural sector. The first deals with the Dept. of Indian Affairs efforts to recruit them as migrant farm workers. The second discusses the exclusion of farm workers from protection under labour laws. Taken from the 1966 National Agricultural Manpower Committee Meeting.
Language Use and School Performance in a Native Classroom
Man and Resources of the Canadian Plains
Material Culture of the Blackfoot (Blood) Indians of Southern Alberta
Métis
Native Images: Reserve Hospitals in Southern Alberta, 1890 to 1930
Native Students in a Community College: Perceptions of Upgrading and Career Students
Using questionnaires the author examines the different perceptions of Indigenous community college students that were either getting a certificate and those upgrading their education.
Native Tourism: Endangered Spaces?
Natives Plan to Protest 'Immoral' Health Care Cuts
New Branch of Peace Hills Trust Opens in Saskatoon
The Northern Great Plains: Pantry of the Northwestern Fur Trade, 1774–1885
Oil and Lubicons Don't Mix: A Land Claim in Northern Alberta in Historical Perspective
"The Past of My Place": Western Canadian Artists and The Uses of History
The Path to Healing: Report of the National Round Table on Aboriginal Health and Social Issues
The Persistence and Creativity of Canadian Aboriginal Newspapers
Piapot: Man and Myth
Piikani Ethnobotany: Traditional Plant Knowledge of the Piikani Peoples of the Northwestern Plains
Archaeology Thesis (MA) -- University of Calgary, 1992