History

A brief history of Lieutenant Wadmore's military career, including a copy of one of his paintings. Wadmore's original watercolours are in the custody of the Peter Winkworth Collection in Gatineau, Quebec. Images are available on the website of the Library and Archives Canada, http://www.collectionscanada.ca

Historical note:

Robinson Lyndhurst Wadmore, who was born in England in 1855, entered the Canadian forces as a lieutenant in 1883 and served with the Royal Canadian Regiment during the Northwest Resistance of 1885. Wadmore became a colonel in 1910. He died in Victoria, BC, in 1955.

Discusses topics of general laws, case laws, treaties, self-government, fiduciary obligations, and Aboriginal rights.

Focuses on literature relating to driving forces and motivations of governments, education and scholarship providers, and students and families for this education option when students reside in remote locations.

Brief document to accompany exhibition of the same name.

Brief historical background of the Nishnawbe-Aski Nation; looks at the social and economic change in remote hunting and trapping communities in Northwestern Ontario; and examines how the First Nations have increased the ability to address health and social service problems locally by assuming control of their health services.

Participants in the National Museum of the American Indian Artist Leadership Program from Canada, United States and Peru discuss their work and participate in a panel discussion. Duration: 1:39:43.

Argues that anthropologists must bring law into the equation to understand the current inequality.

Documentary from the report, Bringing Them Home: Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children From Their Families. Survivors speak about their experiences. Duration: 32:29.

Educator's resource for the report Bringing Them Home: National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families. Most activities suitable for grade 9 and up.

Links to audio of interviews with over 190 Aboriginals who were taken from their families by the Australian government in an effort to assimilate them.

Comparative analysis of cultural bias in the painting, Colonel Guy Johnston and Karonghyontye (Captain David Hill) painted in 1776.

Explores reasons why the epidemic figures prominently in First Nations' histories; includes oral remembrances of the devastation the disease brought to First Nations communities.

Discusses the complex issues involved in historical, legal, policy and administrative aspects of Treaty 8 and the Douglas Treaties.

Comments on the factors that have played important roles in British Columbia's legal history.

Discusses problems encountered in the context of the French's continuing influence even after Acadia had been ceded to the British in the Treaty of Utrecht.

Session Six from public conference Assessing the Indian Residential Schools Litigation and Settlement Processes held Friday, January 18, 2013 at the University of Toronto. Implications of implementing transitional justice framework into a non-traditional setting. Duration: 1:11:02.

Discusses the play, published in 1936, which centered around culturally displaced mixed-blood youths in Oklahoma

Looks at conflicts over land owned by the Haudenosaunee and the backgrounds of John Brant and Robert Johnson Keer as negotiators for the Grand River Six Nations.

Book review of: Broken Circle by Theodore Fontaine. Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review, scroll to p. 131.

Asks for help for the Masssai and Samuru pastoralists.

An image of two Aboriginal babies wrapped in blankets and leather and lying on cradle boards. Colours have been added to the photograph in a chromolithograph process.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 2008.

Describes methods used to hunt and preserve buffalo, as well as efforts to prevent extinction.

Discusses whether severe winters could have contributed to the extinction of the buffalo.

Discusses how Adrian Stimson's anti-colonial, gender-bending persona is used to expose cultural and societal truths.

Looks at the dance performed either before or after a hunt by Pueblo tribes living along the Rio Grande and the Hopi villages in Arizona.

Excerpts from a description written by Rev. George Antoine Belmont of a buffalo hunt which took place in 1845.

Edited version of information about the hunt in 1836-37 taken from The Journal of Martin McLeod.

A photograph of a group of buffalo (bison) in an enclosed field. Date and location unknown. Likely in the Prince Albert area, possibly Prince Albert National Park.

Dr. Jim Millar, an archaeologist from the University of Saskatchewan, believes people have been living in Buffalo Narrows for anywhere from 7,000 to 10,000 years.

Examines the Miccosukees' struggle for self determination with the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and the Department of the Interior.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of New Mexico, 1997.

Accompanying material: Resource Guide.

History Thesis, (M.A.)--The University of Northern British Columbia, 2009.

Provides summary of past and current policies and programs in Canada, discusses initiatives in Aboriginal communities and common themes or objectives, looks at international Indigenous communities for similarities in concerns and challenges and how they are responding.

Discusses mental health concerns including loss of cultural roots, violence, drug and alcohol abuse, depression, and suicide.

Buildings at Emmanuel College in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. Taken sometime before 1905. Emmanuel College was moved to Saskatoon in September 1909 when the University of Saskatchewan was established.

Discusses how the same event produced five different pictographic renditions and textual translations even though they were painted by the same artist.

Describes colleagues' reactions during a visit to the Octagon Earthworks, which were built by the Hopewell people between 11 BC and 400 AD. Special combined issue of Studies in American Indian Literatures and American Indian Quarterly. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 237.