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The Face Pullers: Ch.4 Images - Parade on Stephen Avenue
Alternate Title
The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Harry Pollard
Description
Photograph of a parade held on Stephen Avenue for the Calgary Stampede featuring Indigenous people on horseback wearing traditional clothing.
From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
The Face Pullers: Chapter 2 Images - "Old Generation, File Hills Indian Agency".
Alternate Title
The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939
Images » Photographs
Description
The Image includes (back row, from left) Mrs. Keewaydin, Mrs. Jack Fisher, Mrs. Miss-ta-tik, Mrs. Buffalo Bow, Day Walker, Mrs. Yellow Belly, Mrs. Pimotatt, and Mrs. Playful Child (Tuckanow); (front row) Chief Hawke, Crooked Nose, Chief Star Blanket, Pointed Cap (Cheepoostatin), Buffalo Bow, Miss-ta-tik, and Kuinness (Cree).
From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
Historical Archives on the Métis Experience in Northeastern Alberta
Alternate Title
Métis in Northeastern Alberta
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Tereasa Maillie
Description
Information from files in Provincial Archives of Alberta (PAA) and at the University of Alberta Archives. Topics: traplines, applications for permission to trap, and pertinent legislative documents, proposed Métis settlement in the 1950s and the Métis Settlement Act, and development of the Athabasca Oil Sands region.
Hunter-Gathering in the Digital World to Build a Keeping Place for the Future
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rod Stroud
The Electronic Library, vol. 27, no. 5, 2009, pp. 856-862
Description
Discusses the challenges of finding and preserving culturally sensitive materials, including supplying appropriate descriptions of collections.
Letters from Rupert's Land, 1826-1840: James Hargrave of the Hudson's Bay Company
Alternate Title
Rupert's Land Record Society Series ; 11
E-Books
Author/Creator
James Hargrave
The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples Transcripts Online
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David A. Smith
Native Studies Review, vol. 18, no. 2, 2009, pp. 135-140
Description
Describes the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples transcripts (RCAP), that document oral interviews with Aboriginal peoples throughout Canada in 1992-1993, and have been digitized and placed online by the University of Saskatchewan Archives.
Them Days: Stories of Early Labrador
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Them Days Inc.
Description
Web site is dedicated to documenting and preserving "the old ways and early days" of Labrador.