Personal Narratives & Interviews

A document that lists various Cree bands and excerpts from annual reports for the period 1883 to 1925. Note: Mandelbaum is not the author, but this document is part of his file.

One of the oldest men on the Little Pine Reserve talks about chiefs before and after treaty.

Consists of an interview with Basel Favel who was one of the headmen during the '85 rebellion. *No index terms provided.

Consists of an interview with Muskwa where he gives a brief description of the significance of various ceremonial clothing and talks about various dances.

Consists primarily of general recollections of the informant.

Consists of an interview with Johnnie Kiskikotagin who also shows the interviewer his Sacred Pipe Stem and takes him to visit a fish trap.*No index terms provided.

Consists of an interview where various possessions and articles of clothing are described.

Consists of an interview with Pones where he describes various ceremonies.

Consists of an interview with Pones where he briefly describes a sweat lodge and shares some general reminiscences.

Consists of an interview with Mr. Walter Taylor, whose father was the first farm instructor on the Sweet Grass Reserve. He tells of various customs on the Little Pine and Poundmaker Reserves. No index terms provided.

Excerpts from the journal kept in the Sergeant Major’s office at the Battleford NWMP detachment in 1885. Entries selected from May 10 to May 24 and edited for publication. Entire issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 108.

Newspaper account from the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the Riel Rebellion. Note: Mandelbaum is not the author, but this document is part of his file.

Indigenous flutist and flute maker discusses how music can be used to create a space where people from diverse cultural and spiritual backgrounds can engage in meaningful dialogue.

Website of virtual exhibition. Contains links to: curatorial statements, music, artists, writers, and a blog.

This file contains excerpts from Reginald Beatty's diary, correspondence about his encounters with Cree people, and letters home to his parents detailing his experience in the 1885 Riel Rebellion. Mr. Beatty was a farmer and fur trader in what is now known as the Melfort area of Saskatchewan.

Consists of an interview on the origin of the Beaver Bundle and its transferal.

Consists of an interview that describes a sweat lodge.

A storyteller gives an account of the origins of the Sarcee Indians.

Native Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Manitoba, 2017.

Looks at experiences of Aboriginal teachers and impacts on them as students, teachers and within the greater community from the narrative of colonization.

Presents personal story about the process of being adopted into an Aboriginal family.

Personal narratives from family members who run a bed and breakfast in Prince George, B.C. Duration: 13:23.

Advice given to an elderly Inuit woman long ago about spirituality and the pre-contact era.

Overview of nineteenth century Queensland using accounts from castaway Europeans, explorers, pioneer settlers and early ethnographers.

Media, Culture, and Communication Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2013.

Discusses national gathering held by the Commission in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Argues that survivors' testimonies served as much to repair the family ties, which residential schools had destroyed, as to alleviate suffering of victims or deal with the oppressor/oppressed relationship.

Illustrates and reviews how three First Nations women's stories contribute to a national research project and how this method differs from a conventional western scientific approach.

Relates stories involving the Gitksan in northern British Columbia.

Contends that the depiction of the 1890 Lakota Ghost Dance and the Wounded Knee massacre in Sophia Alice Callahan's novel, the first known novel by an Native American woman, provides a Native American perspective on self-identity in the late nineteenth century. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 1.

Book review of: Bei Inuit und Walfängern auf Baffin-Land (1883/1884) edited by Ludger Müller-Wille, Bernd Geiseking.

Educational Foundations Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Saskatchewan, 1996.

Book review of: Being Aboriginal by Ros Bowden and Bill Bunbury. Review located by scrolling to page 134.

Author comments on the preconceived notions that non-Indigenous Australians have regarding gender roles in the Indigenous community in Australia.

Author discusses their experience as a Canadian Research Chair (CRC) in Indigenous Well-Being, Community-Engagement, and Innovation at McMaster University. Considers the role that Indigenous scholars are currently playing in decolonization and Indigenization efforts in the Canadian academy and the personal cost to those scholars.

Examines the strengths that contributed to the survival of First Nations peoples during their stays in residential schools.

Study used semi-structured, in-depth interviews with current and former employees of the Australian Public Service to identify factors which contribute to the ongoing problem of lack of retention.

Brief profile of five generations of women of the Belanger family. Article located by scrolling to page 25.

Originally published: 1948.

Describes the sale of part of the Louis Bull Reserve.

Looks at a woman's life story documented for her family but also for land claiming purposes.

Health and Social Sciences Thesis (MSW)--Massey University, 2011.

Discussion of his life, especially his fishing activities. No date given, probably in the 1970's.

Focuses on auto-ethnographic vignettes in the analysis of Teddy Syrett'e theatre performance from the play, No Choices, Different Voices.

Brief background on a multi-media artist including an interview.

A brief interview recounting how the interviewee (age 38 at time of interview) lost her treaty status at the age of 14.