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Bande de Betsiamites: Enquêtes Relatives à la Route 138 et au Pont de la Rivière Betsiamites

Alternate Title
Betsiamites Band Highways 138 and Riviere Betsaimites Bridge Inquiries - Final Report (French Version)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
Final report regarding the two specific claims arguing that reserve lands taken for highway construction were never surrendered to Canada and/or transferred to the Province of Quebec. Commissioners include : Sheila G. Purdy and Alan C. Holman. [These files were created and compiled by the ICC and provided to the Indigenous Studies Portal in 2009 to make widely available in online format.]
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Bateman-McKay Canoe

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Christina Bateman and Annie McKay with paddler (either Willie Bear or Adolphus Ross) during their journey from Prince Albert to La Ronge, Saskatchewan in 1919.
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BC Rainforest

Alternate Title
Great Bear Rainforest Series
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Moon Willow Press
Series of eleven articles about the rainforest environment and wildlife and the threats including a proposed pipeline project.
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The Beaver Indians

Alternate Title
Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History ; v.10, pt. 4
E-Books
Author/Creator
Pliny Earle Goddard
Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History

Forms part of Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, v.10 (p. 201-293).

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Berry picking expedition

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Image of berry picking expedition on Lac la Ronge Highway. Several children and one adult walking beside or riding in a horse-drawn wagon.
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"Best Wishes From Canada, Indian Types"

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This postcard is a collage of six other postcard images of Native people - "Blackfoot Brave", "The Chief's Squaws", "Mounted Cree Indian", "Cree Indian", "Cree Indians and Camp", and "An Indian Chief." The edges of the postcard are decorated in gold colour and red maple leaves. The card is postmarked 4 Dec 1907.
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Betsiamites Band Council, Route 138 and the Betsiamites Reserve, Public Edition, July 2008

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission

FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Consists of bilingual annotated index, historical documents, maps, correspondence/letters, Band Council documents and final reports relating to the Band's claims alleging that reserve lands taken for highway use were never surrendered to Canada and/or transferred to the Province of Quebec. Commissioners include: Sheila G. Purdy and Alan C. Holman. [These files were created and compiled by the ICC and provided to the Indigenous Studies Portal in 2009 to make widely available in online format.]

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Betsiamites Band: Highway 138 and Rivière Betsiamites Bridge Inquiries - Final Report

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
Final report regarding the two specific claims arguing that reserve lands taken for highway construction were never surrendered to Canada and/or transferred to the Province of Quebec. Commissioners include : Sheila G. Purdy and Alan C. Holman. [These files were created and compiled by the ICC and provided to the Indigenous Studies Portal in 2009 to make widely available in online format.]
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Big Splash In Cumberland House

Articles » General
Cumberland House celebrates summer with four days of canoe racing. Page one: three pictures of canoes racing. Page two: two pictures of audience members, one picture of canoe racing.
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Bill Reid and the Haida Canoe

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Maria Tippett
BC Studies, no. 175, Autumn, 2012, pp. 113-114
Book review of: Bill Reid and the Haida Canoe edited by Martine J. Reid. Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 113.
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The Bill Reid Centre for Northwest Coast Art Studies

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Bill Reid Centre for Northwest Coast Art Studies
Simon Fraser University
Website contains links to Virtual Village Project, online exhibits, information on canoes, totem poles, and architecture, and a collection of over 60 pages of images.
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The Birch Bark Canoe: Navigating a New World

Alternate Title
The Birch Bark Canoe: Navigating a New World: 21st Century Curriculum Connections and Video Resource for Manitoba Teachers (Grades 5-9)
Documents & Presentations
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Peter Jordan
Birch Bark Productions

Discusses the importance of the Indigenous invention in the development of Canada.

Additional Material: The Birch Bark Canoe: Navigating a New World: 21st Century Curriculum Connections and  Video Resource for Manitoba Teachers (Grades 5-9).

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The Birchbark Canoe

Articles » General
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 5, no. 18, October 30, 1975, p. 8
History of the birchbark canoe.
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Birchbark Canoe Model

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Danelle Cloutier
Canada's History, vol. 95, no. 3, June/July 2015, p. 51
Description of model canoe constructed in the traditional Ojibwa style.
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"Black Foot [sic] Indians on the March, Lethbridge Fair, Alta."

Images » Photographs
An image of a long parade of Aboriginal men on horseback. They wear ceremonial regalia, and some hold spear like poles with small flags tied to them. Non-Aboriginal people are gathered with horses and buggies watching the procession. Colours have been added to the image in a chromolithograph process. On the back there is a short note and it is postmarked 1930. The postcard was sent from Lethbridge, Alberta to Queens County, New Brunswick.
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"Black Looking" Blood Warrior

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Note: The title 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. Black and white photograph of a young blood man in traditional clothing on horseback.
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Blackfoot brave with scalps

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Black and white photograph captioned "Blackfoot Brave with scalps" featuring a Blackfoot man on horseback in traditional costume, holding a stick possibly decorated with a scalp. Dog with travois in background.
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Blackfoot braves with scalps

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Black and white photograph of five Blackfoot men on horseback riding down a street wearing traditional clothing and possibly bearing "scalps" on sticks. They appear to be in a parade.
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"Blackfoot Indian Braves."

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An image of four Aboriginal men on horseback, all wearing full headdresses. Colours have been added to the photograph in a chromolithograph process.
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"Blood Indian Brave"

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Black and white photograph of a young Blood man on horseback, entitled 'Blood Indian Brave" there is another Aboriginal man in background, also on horseback. Both are dressed in traditional costume.
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"Blood Squaws in War Dress"

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Note: The title 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. An image of three Aboriginal men on horseback dressed in ceremonial regalia and each wearing a head dress. Unidentified buildings and people in the background.
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Boats and Mission

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Author/Creator
Institute for Northern Studies
Beached boats and the Mission at Rae, N.W.T.
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Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Elizabeth Furniss
Barry McGrory
Jeremy Hull
E. Paul Morrissy
Rosanne Gasse
et al.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 10, no. 2, 1990, pp. 307-341
Book reviews of 15 books: Metaphors of Interpretation: Essays in Honour of W.E.H. Stanner edited by Diane E. Barwick, Jeremy Beckett and Marie Reay. Convertir Les Fils de Cain, Jesuites et Amerindiens Nomades en Nouvelle-France by Alain Beaulieu. The Alaska Highway: Papers of the 40th Anniversary Symposium edited by Kenneth Coates. Catlin and His Contemporaries: The Politics of Patronage by Brain W.
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Boy steering boat at James Smith

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Author/Creator
Thomas R. Melville-Ness
A boy steering a boat at the James Smith Reserve, probably on the Saskatchewan River. No date given.
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"Braves having a rest"

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Photograph depicts 2 men sitting on grass. Horses and buildings in background. Accompanying type-written text (source unknown) reads: "The aboriginals were never in a hurry and it was a frequent occurrence to see the bucks loafing in this wise no matter how important their mission. The man with the hat on is supposed to be hunting the band of ponies which had strayed, as indicated by the coiled lariat on his knee.
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Building a Kayak, Part 1

Alternate Title
Building a Kayak, Part One
Netsilik Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Quentin Brown
Shows the traditional nomadic way of life of the Netsilik Inuit depicting men building a kayak on the shore. Duration: 32:20.
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Building a Kayak, Part 2

Alternate Title
Building a Kayak, Part Two
Netsilik Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Quentin Brown
Shows the traditional nomadic way of life of the Netsilik Inuit. Men finish building the kayak. Duration: 32:46.
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Building a Skiff

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Author/Creator
Institute for Northern Studies fonds
Alfred Biyette in the process of building a skiff. Dillon, Saskatchewan.
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Building a Skiff

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Author/Creator
Institute of Northern Studies fonds
Alfred Biyette and his skiff-in-progress. Dillon, Saskatchewan.
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The Building of a Canoe

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Northwest Native American Curriculum Project

Brief text accompanied by archival photographs. Suitable for use with elementary school students.

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Building of Canoe

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Author/Creator
W.O. Kupsch
Photograph of frame of canoe being built at Jean-Marie River, Northwest Territories. Shack and river in background.
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Campaigning in the North West Territories

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
James Mortimer Austin
A write up on the experiences of James Austin, a member of the Ontarian Midland Battalion involved in the suppression of the 1885 uprising. Austin relates the story of his trek west from Ontario, but missed all major actions. Austin later became a Presbyterian minister.
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Canadian Arctic Shipping: Issues and Perspectives

Alternate Title
Occasional Paper Series (International Centre for Northern Governance and Development) ; v.11-01
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Adam Lajeunesse
Will Russell
A. E. Johnston
Assessment of Arctic shipping potential in Canada, the benefits of potential increases in Arctic shipping and growth in Arctic cruise tourism.
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Canoe Building

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Author/Creator
Institute for Northern Studies
A canoe in progress. Jean Marie River, N.W.T.
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Canoe, Canoe, What Can You Do?

Alternate Title
Look at What I Found!
Ocean-Going "Fishing" Canoe
Building of a Canoe
Carving of a Canoe
Herbie & Slim Nellie's First Journey
E-Books
Author/Creator
Jerome M. Jainga
[Keith Egawa]
[Maria Parker Pascua]
[David Neel]

Six stories connected to the Northwest coast canoe in one volume: Look at What I Found!; Ocean-Going "Fishing" Canoe; Building of a Canoe; Carving of a Canoe; and Herbie & Slim Nellie's First Journey.

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Canoe Journeys and Cultural Revival

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bruce E. Johansen
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 36, no. 2, 2012, pp. 131-141
Comments on long distance journeys by canoe, the revival of canoe making and teaching respect for the water.
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Canoe on Stream

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A canoe on a stream. Taken during the journey of Christina Bateman and Annie McKay from Prince Albert to La Ronge, SK in 1919.
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Canoe on Stream

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A canoe on a stream (see also S-B577). Taken during the journey of Christina Bateman and Annie McKay from Prince Albert to La Ronge, SK in 1919.
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The Canoe: Portraits of the Great Fur Trade Canoes

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation
Story of the Montreal canoe, the largest birchbark vessel ever used in Canada, and its role in the fur trade. Includes links to Aboriginal canoe styles, transportation, voyageures and portaging, Sir George Simpson's Travels
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Canoe with Sail

Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Christina Bateman (photographer)
Image of canoe with sail on water. From the diary of Annie McKay: "We met a family of Indians (1 canoe)who had a blanket up for a sail. Stopped and put up a sail of our own" (August 15th). Possibly Adolphus Ross and William Bird paddling. Trip of Christina Bateman and Annie McKay to La Ronge, 1919.
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