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Battleford and Medicine Hat - Newspaper clipping - 9 May 1885.

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Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, May 1885, p. 196
Description
Note: The description of this document uses wording that was common to mainstream society of that time period in history. As such, it contains language that is no longer in common use and may offend some readers. This wording should not be construed to represent the views of the Indigenous Studies Portal or the University of Saskatchewan Library. A short article on the ongoing Northwest Resistance, including four sketches: 1. The fort at Battleford; 2. The South Saskatchewan; 3. Steamers loading at Medicine Hat; 4. The Revolt of the Half-Breeds.
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Dr. William Hall Papers

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Description
File contains correspondence regarding the sale of land and a scrip land transfer in the File Hills/Fort Qu'Appelle area of the North-West Territories of Canada, Saskatchewan district. Involved in these transactions were Lazare Laliberte, Thomas G. Morrison, William Hall, John Leader, and Thomas W. Jackson. Also in the file is a copy of a letter of resignation from File Hills Indian Agency clerk T. P. Godfrey, who accused Inspector W. M. Graham of improper handling of agency funds and suspicious booking keeping practices.
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“Each has a house of her own”: Purpose, Domesticity and

Agency of First Nations Women in Canada’s Industrial School

System, 1883-1923

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Author/Creator
Sarah Nason
Mount Royal Undergraduate Humanities Review, vol. 2, December 2014, pp. [20]-37
Description
Discusses government's and churches' goals for female students, and their failure to achieve them. Focuses on schools located in Fort Qu'Appelle and North Battleford, Saskatchewan, and High River, Alberta.
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File Hills Chiefs to Boycott School

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Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 4, no. 6-7, August/September 1974, p. 9
Description
Discusses results of a survey from the Star Blanket Reserve wanting one federal school for four reserves in their area.
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Fort Qu'Appelle - Sketch. - March 1935.

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Description
Photocopied page showing a sketch of Fort Qu'Appelle in 1876. Photocopied page from The Beaver, March 1935, p. 20.

Historical note:

The town of Fort Qu'Appelle, SK, is located in the Qu'Appelle Valley 70 km NE of Regina between Echo and Mission Lakes. Fort Qu'Appelle was the crossroads of a number of historic trails that traversed the North-West Territories. The Hudson's Bay Company built a post at Fort Qu'Appelle in 1864.
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"Gerry, Harriet E., Sinasia Remembers."

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Author/Creator
Harriet E. Gerry
Description
This file contains "Sinasia Remembers" the reminiscences of Harriet E. Gerry (unpublished), and published articles about her work nursing among the Indians of western Canada. Her extensive memoir is made up of several short stories and anecdotes about the many communities she worked in. These include Onion Lake, Kehewin Reserve, Leask, Sturgeon Lake, Cold Lake, Fort Qu'Appelle, One Arrow Reserve, Piapot Reserve and many in British Columbia later in her career.
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The Great Trek

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Author/Creator
Reginald Bird Beatty
Description
This chapter of Reginald Beatty's diary describes his journey from his homestead in the Carrot River area to Troy (later Qu'Appelle Station) for supplies in late February 1886, a round trip of 300 miles. Also included is a description of the courtship between one of Beatty's travel companions and the local schoolteacher. Item found within folder 'Reginald Bird Beatty Papers.'

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Portraits of Interest - Sketches

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Description
Portrait sketches of key figures in the Northwest Resistance. Subjects include Mrs. T. Charles Watson, Major T.C. Watson, Lt.-Col. the Hon. W.N. Kennedy, Corporal Lethbridge, Col.-Sergt. Cooper, and Capt. Herbert Swinford. Caption of sketches: "(1) Mrs. T. Charles Watson, who has commenced a series of dramatic readings in aid of local patriotic funds; (2) Major T.C. Watson, (late of H.M. service), commanding the troops raised at Yorkton, Assiniboia; (3) Lt.-Col. the Hon. W.N. Kennedy, of the 90th Batt.
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Portraits of the Indians

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Author/Creator
Glenbow Alberta Art Gallery
Description
Catalogue of exhibition of works relating to portraits of Aboriginals at the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, AB. Works of artists from around the world include Paul Kane, Frederick Verner, Karl Bodmer, Henry Cross, James Henderson and Nicholas de Grandmaison. Exhibition organized by Andrew Oko.
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Public Archaeology Forum

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Hester A. Davis
James T. Finnigan
Journal of Field Archaeology, vol. 16, no. 2, Summer, 1989, pp. 233-240
Description
Fort Qu'Appelle archaeological burial controversy of 1985 from the perspective of the Saskatchewan Association of Professional Archaeologists.
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Public Archaeology Forum

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Hester A. Davis
Ernest G. Walker
Brian E. Spurling
Journal of Field Archaeology, vol. 14, no. 4, Winter, 1987, pp. 481-486
Description
Archaeological burial management in Saskatchewan and lessons learned from disturbing Fort Qu'Appelle burial site unearthed in 1985.
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Qu'Appelle Trail - Paper. - n.d.

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Description
Report relating to the history of the Wood Mountain–Fort Qu'Appelle Trail, surveyed in 1883 and covered large areas of southern Saskatchewan. Author may be [A.S. Morton].

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Report of Interview Dr. L.H. Thomas and Mr. Gabriel Leveille

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Author/Creator
Gabriel Leveille
L. H. Thomas
Description
Transcript of a tape recorded interview of Metis North West Mounted Police employee Gabriel Leveille. Leveille worked in the Cypress Hills, Fort Walsh area during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Topics covered in the interview include Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse in Canada, Gabriel Dumont and the 1885 uprising, roping a grizzly bear in the Cypress Hills, Chief Piapot, Ranching, and numerous other topics pertaining to Police and Metis life.

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Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Round Table Panel Discussion

Alternate Title
National Round Table on Aboriginal Health and Social Issues
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples - Transcriptions of Public Hearings and Round Table Discussions
Documents & Presentations
Description
File contains the transcript of a portion of the National Round Table on Aboriginal Health and Social Issues for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. This part of the volume contains the discussions of a Panel of experts assembled on Day 1 touching on the possibility of a Holistic community health strategy.
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Walking in Two Worlds: The Role of Drama in Creating Cross-Cultural Understanding and Student Engagement in School

Alternate Title
McDowell Foundation Research Project ; no. 185
Opening Up about Oppression Through Forum Theatre: Teacher's Guide
Teaching and Learning Research Exchange
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Melissa] Marley
[Carol] Fulton
McDowell Foundation Research Project
Description
Looks at a Grades 10-12 student drama project about living and going to school in a culturally mixed community. Included is a teachers guide with lesson plans.
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