People

Woman with two children. Girl possibly about to be confirmed.

Two women and three children (and dog) sitting on porch.

Titled: Seven women posed with a nun indoors. Two women in front appear to be shelling peas or beans.

Children/women in clinic. One woman with child, one being examined by nurse, children in background.

Image of man displaying tools (axe and saw) in front of a pile of pulpwood logs.

Inuk carver and artisan, Quabluitok; seated on a chair, posing for camera.

On information card: Quiblakut (Kablaroot) E.L.S. informant.

Image of three chiefs with Rev. Hives and C. Innes outside RCMP barracks at Battleford.

View of unidentified man using sextant to determine latitude at noon; sled and sleeping dog team in background.

Bob [Robert Gordon] Williamson speaks with residents.

Portrait of Red Dog, "Chief of Crees."

Slide appears to be part of a series of 4 images about Canada's North.

Constructing an igloo; sled dogs resting at site. Location unknown. Part of the "Inuit of Keewatin" series (#7).

1 photo. Close-up of Ahenakew.

Historical note:

"Born at Sandy Lake on June 11, 1885, this grandnephew of Chief Poundmaker attended the missionary school on the Sandy Lake Reserve, and then the boarding school in Prince Albert, where he proved an able scholar and an impressive athlete. After boarding school Ahenakew returned to Sandy Lake, where he assisted his father until he was invited to teach at a missionary school on the James Smith Reserve.

Image of an elderly Rev. Father J. Moulin in robes with a cross around his neck; outdoor scene.

A studio portrait of Rev. John Richard Matheson, seated.

Historical note:

Rev. John Richard Matheson was the husband of Dr. Elizabeth (Scott) Matheson. They were married in 1891, and she went with him to the Anglican mission on a reserve at Onion Lake, 200 miles Northwest of Saskatoon. As well as a missionary, he served as builder, rancher and trader to finance their work. After she completed medical studies at his urging, he built her a small mission hospital at Onion Lake, and the couple ran a mission school there.

Rev. Louis M. Adam, o.m.i.,principal of the school in Beauval, Saskatchewan.

A portrait of Reverend R. Hunt from the "Report on Indian Missions, 1909." Reverend Hunt was an Anglican clergyman at Stanley Mission, SK in the mid-nineteenth century.

Historical note:

Reverend Hunt oversaw the construction of Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Stanley Mission between 1854 and 1860, today the oldest standing building in the province. See also S-B6546.

A copy of a photograph. On back: "The Rt. Rev. - Stringer Bishop & Mrs Stringer - the well-remembered 'Sadie' Stringer - many children carry her name. Photo taken at Herschel Island c 1911."

On back: "The Rev. Fr. Léonce De Heutrevant, OMI. Preist-Missionary Notre Dame de Lourdes Mission - Paulatuk, NWT. 83 yrs old now."

A group photograph of Reverend J.A. MacKay and other unnamed Anglican Clergy, presumably from Western Canada. No date given.

Riel and his Council at Red River, 1869-1870.

An Aboriginal Ring Dance at the Pion-Era festival in Saskatoon, SK. 1958.

Fifteen images (3 shown here) of Rita Bouvier who was involved with Urban Indian Teacher Education Program in Saskatoon, December 3, 1980.

Portrait of Poundmaker Reserve farm instructor who willingly accompanied the Cree to Battleford. From the book Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion by Blair Stonechild and Bill Waiser.

A photograph of the Roman Catholic Residential School, Onion Lake in the 1890s. A large group of students stand in front of the school dressed in western clothing. Several of the girls wear matching dresses. A group of four nuns and a non-Aboriginal woman and boy are at the right. An Aboriginal family with baby and small girl are at far left and three priests in black robes stand between them and the students.

Ross Thatcher and an unidentified aboriginal man sitting in a classroom in an unidentified "Indian" school.

Saskatchewan Premier Ross Thatcher stands at the front of a class of Native children in an unidentified "Indian" school.

A photograph of past Saskatchewan Liberal Premier Ross Thatcher speaking to an unidentified Native man on an Indian reserve, circa 1970.

An Army commander stands on a platform with an Aboriginal boy on each side of him dressed in ceremonial clothes. A large crowd is gathered in the background. They are all inside the pallisade at Fort Battleford.

Image of Royal Regiment outside church at Batoche.

The Royal Regiment of Canada parading in front of the Roman Catholic Church of St. Antoine de Padou at Batoche, SK, June 1962.

The Royal Regiment of Canada at Batoche, SK in June 1962. In the background the Roman Catholic Church of St. Antoine de Padou can be seen.

The Royal Regiment of Canada at Batoche, SK in 1962. Soldiers in parade formation.

Photograph of Sakamatayenew taken in 1925. He is dressed in overalls.

Sakaweo, a Cree man from the Sweetgrass band armed with a lever action repeater rifle. No date provided: likely late nineteenth, early twentieth century.

Sakaweo, a Cree man from the Sweetgrass band wearing a hat and sporting a shotgun. No date given but apparently late nineteenth early twentieth century.

Black and white photo of Indigenous man, "Black Plume" , wearing embroidered coat and holding ceremonial stick. From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.

Sample cover for Brock Silversides' "The Face Pullers" featuring black and white photo of Blackfoot man identified as Black Plume, wearing embroidered coat.

Formal portrait of Sampson Beaver wearing traditional clothes and headdress on postcard from Jasper National park.

A portrait photograph of Sarah Mann probably taken in the early 1900s.

A studio portrait of Sarah Anne Mann (nee Browne) wearing a full length gown.

Historical note:

Sarah Anne Browne was born on 24 May 1854 in Bowmanville, Ontario. She was married to George Gwynne Mann on 1 April 1874. Mann moved west in 1878 as a Government farm instructor, first at Fort Pitt and then Onion Lake North-West Territories.

Staged portrait of Sarcee braves Mutsenamakan and Stumetsekini. Traditional clothing and Mutsenamakan holding tomahawk.

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 two Aboriginal women standing in front of a tipi. They are wearing traditional style dresses. Colours have been added to the photograph in a chromolithograph process.

Image depicting the Saskatchewan Indian Women's Association "Mother of the Year" for 1977, Mrs. Flora Mike. One scanned negative shows Mrs. Flora Mike seated.

Image of John Diefenbaker in ceremonial head dress at South Saskatchewan River Dam Opening. A crowd surrounds him and an interviewer takes a statement from a man in ceremonial dress standing beside Diefenbaker.

Saskatoon Old Timers' Association pose on Exhibition grounds, tipis are in the background.

Historical note:

An image of an Aboriginal ceremony. There is a drum group seated in the foreground, and a line of men and women in ceremonial regalia standing behind them. In the background there is a large group of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people observing the ceremony.

An image of an Aboriginal woman wrapped in a blanket and standing in front of a teepee. Colours have been added to the photograph in a chromolithograph process. The postcard is addressed to Miss C. McRae, Wapella, Saskatchewan.

File contains two negatives from the Schools in the Forest Conference held in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, on May 4, 1964. Scanned image shows assembled delegates having a discussion.