Folder containing correspondence to and from Reverend H.C. Montgomery regarding subsidization of denominational schools and discrimination, education of children in Yukon, missionary work. Comments on these letters.
This file contains documents (itineraries, correspondence, requests for audience) related to Diefenbaker's visit to Winnipeg and NWT, including a meeting with Indigenous and Inuit representatives. An issue of The Catholic Voice which includes information on their involvement with the Nahanni people. A letter regarding the attendance of indigenous students and an Indian and Northern Health Services hospital.
Correspondence Relating to Diefenbaker's leadership in regards to Indigenous people, as well as restricted information relating to the situation at John Smith Reserve, and Chief Andrew Bear.
Booklet on the life of Louis Riel up to the Red River Resistance (1869-1870), commissioned by the Manitoba Centennial Corporation in 1971 in honour of a new monument of Riel, which is located on the grounds of the Manitoba Legislative Building in Winnipeg. Louis Riel is regarded as the founder of the province of Manitoba. Booklet in English / French.
File contains information on activism, agriculture, reserve life, medical services, drug prescriptions, land claims, the Indian Act, Metis, Indigenous rights, chiefs, sterilization of indigenous women, the "Red Paper", discrimination, treaties 8 and 11, recreation, Liquor Act, provincial law, housing, Local Initiatives Programs, utilities on reserves, and poverty.