History

Voices of the Marchers

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Waziyatawin Angela Wilson
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 28, no. 1-2, Winter/Spring, 2004, pp. 293-334
Description
Comments shared by participants of the Dakota Commemorative March in 2002 to remember their peoples forced removal march of 1862.
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Voyage of Domination, "Purchase" as Conquest, Sakakawea for Savagery: Distorted Icons from Misrepresentation of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James V. Fenelon
Mary Louise Defender-Wilson
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 19, no. 1, Spring, 2004, pp. 85-104
Description
Describes ideas of discovery, ideologies of purchase, and misinterpretations, for example that of Native American women as battered women, by Lewis and Clark in their explorations, 1804-1806.
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Vyid Ynji Tl'äkų: "I Let It Go Now"

Documents & Presentations
Description
Based on presentations given at a three-day healing gathering held for residential school survivors in November 2009 at the Kwanlin Dün First Nation.
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W.B. Cameron Papers - Correspondence.

Archival » Archival Items
Author/Creator
William Bleasdell Cameron
Description
This file consists of 8 letters from W.B. Cameron to Arthur S. Morton, and one letter from Howard Angus Kennedy to Cameron about his book "The War Trail of Big Bear."

Historical note:

In 1927, the University of Saskatchewan hired William Bleasdell Cameron to gather interesting material dealing with the early days of settlement from the old-timers. Cameron's chief interest, since he was a former servant of the Hudson's Bay Company, was in the Metis and Native people. Much of his information came from other former servants of the Company.
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Waanatan's Pipe and Tobacco Bag

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Louis Garcia
Whispering Wind, vol. 39, no. 2, Issue 270, May/June 2010, pp. 12-14
Description
Waanatan II, son of Yanktonai Chief Waneta, presented his pipe and bag to Major Israel McCreight, manager at Fort Totten, Dakota Territory. Includes photos.
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Waasechibiiwaabikoonsing Nd’anami’aami, “Praying through a Wired Window”: Using Technology to Teach Anishinaabemowin

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Margaret Noori
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 23, no. 2, Digital Technologies and Native Literature, Summer, 2011, pp. 3-23
Description
Focuses on the internet site Noongwa e-Anishinaabemjig: People Who Speak Anishinaabemowin Today hosted by the University of Michigan. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 3.
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Wagon to Pion-Era

Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Thomas R. Melville-Ness
Description
Horse drawn wagon carrying Aboriginal people in traditional dress to Pion-Era, Saskatoon, SK, 1957.
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Wahbung: Our Tomorrows

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Tribes of Manitoba
Description
Position paper discusses past treaties and treaty obligations and argues that the Federal government should renegotiate to redress past violations of Aboriginal rights.
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Wahi a Kahiko: Place Names as Vehicles of Ancestral Memory

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Katrina-Ann R. Kapa'anaokalaokeola Nakoa Oliveira
AlterNative, vol. 5, no. 2, Ke Ala Hou: Breaking Trail in Hawaiian Research and Development, 2009, pp. 100-115
Description
Discusses how place names reveal and provide attachments to the land, to the past, and to the Hawaiian identity.
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Wahlgidouk, Giver of Gifts

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jeane Breinig
Atlantis, vol. 29, no. 2, [Indigenous Women: The State of Our Nations], 2005, pp. 97-102
Description
Comments on a Kasaan Haida elder woman and her efforts to document her family and village history.
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Walking a Tightrope: Aboriginal People and Their Representations

Alternate Title
A Story Untold: A Community-Based Oral Narrative of Mohawk Women's Voices from Point Anne, Ontario
Aboriginal Studies Series (Wilfred Laurier University Press)
Goodbye, Wild Indian
Kwakwaka-wakw on Film
Permission and Possession: The Identity Tightrope
Seeing Red: The Stoic Whiteman and Non-Native Humour
The Whirlwind of History: Parallel Nineteenth-Century Perspectives on “Are They Savage?”
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Drew Hayden Taylor
Philip Bellfry
Dawn T. Maracle
Karl Hele
Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse
Lenore Keeshig-Tobias
Aboriginal Studies Series
Description
Chapters one, two, four, seven, and twelve.
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Walking in Reconciled Relationships

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Terry LeBlanc
Consensus, vol. 37, no. 1, Journeying Together Toward Truth and Reconciliation, 2016, pp. 1-13
Description
Comments on Karl Mennigner and Gregory Boer's reasoning theses to explain the cause for Euro-Canadian problems in reconciling with Indigenous people.
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Walking on the Lands of Our Ancestors

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Anne Tenning
Description

Discusses case study of traditional education and experiential learning in the Social Studies classroom. Activities would be suitable for Grades 9/10 and 11/12.

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Wampum, Bibles, Treaties, and American Letters: Native American and Anglo-American Communications in Early America

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Rebecca M. Lush
Early American Literature, vol. 49, no. 3, 2014, pp. 771-785
Description
Review essay of: Pen and Ink Witchcraft: Treaties and Treaty Making in American Indian History by Colin G. Calloway. Bradford's Indian Book: Being the True Roote and Rise of American Letters as Revealed by the Native Text Embedded in "Of Plimoth Plantation" by Betty Booth Donohue. John Eliot and the Praying Indians of Massachusetts Bay by Kathryn N. Gray.
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Wanuskewin: A Walk Through Wanuskewin

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Theresa Hohne
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 23, no. 4, May 1994, p. 14
Description
Describes main exhibit, buffalo jump, theatre, trails and experiences Wanuskewin Heritage Park near Saskatoon offers to visitors.
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War Bonnet

Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
National Museums of Canada (photographer)
Description
A Native elder posing for camera wearing traditional clothing and a war bonnet (made with 50 genuine eagle feathers). Backdrop and lighting used on taking photograph. Location unknown.
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A War By Any Other Name

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
J. D. Gravenor
The Beaver, vol. 85, no. 6, December/January 2005/2006, pp. 47-49
Description
Book review of: Empires at War: The Seven Years' War & the Struggle for North America 1754-1763 by William Fowler.
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War Dance at Fort Marion: Plains Indians War Prisoners; A Kiowa's Odyssey: A Sketchbook From Fort Marion; Art From Fort Marion: The Silberman Collection

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Richard Pearce
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 21, no. 2, Summer, 2009, pp. 84-91
Description
Reviews of 3 books: War Dance at Fort Marion: Plains Indians War Prisoners by Brad D. Lookingbill. A Kiowa's Odyssey: A Sketchbook From Fort Marion by Phillip Earenfight. Art From Fort Marion: The Silberman Collection by Joyce M. Szabo. Entire issue on one pdf. To access reviews, scroll to page 84.
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War, Wampum, and Recognition: Algonquin Transborder Political Activism during the Early Twentieth Century, 1919-1931

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dennis Leo Fisher
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 45, no. 1, Winter, 2021, pp. [56]-79
Description
Discusses the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg's push for recognition of their traditional lands and treaty rights following the First World War in Eastern Canada through collaborations with Chief Richard and the Tuscaroras of New York.
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A Warrior's Robe

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
L. James Dempsey
Alberta History, vol. 51, no. 4, Autumn, 2003, pp. 18-23
Description
Presents the life and accomplishments of Mike Mountain Horse a popular veteran in Lethbridge in the 1930's.
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Was There a Tenth Victim at Frog Lake?

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Allen Ronaghan
Alberta History, vol. 54, no. 1, Winter, 2006, pp. 10-15
Description
Presentation of information indicating there was another victim killed during the conflict in 1885.
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