Fur Trade & Exploration

Big Bear

Articles » General
Author/Creator
R. S. Allen
Saskatchewan History, vol. 25, no. 1, Winter , 1972, pp. 1-17
Description
In addition to biographical information on the Cree leader (also known as Misto-Ha-A-Musqua) , article provides historical information on the fur and whiskey trade in the Cypress Hills and Southwestern Alberta. Discusses Cypress Hills Massacre, the arrival of the North West Mounted Police, the flight of the Sioux into Canada and the North-West Resistance. Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 1.
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The Big Woman Befriends the Sioux

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Douglas Kemp
Manitoba Pageant, January 1957, p. [?]
Description
Story of an encounter between some of Sitting Bull's people and the owner of a trading post which took place when the Sioux were fleeing the United States.
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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
Description

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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Birch Bark Talking: A Resumé of the Life and Work of the Rev. James Evans

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
James Evans Centenary Committee
Description

Booklet on the life of Rev. James Evans, a Wesleyan / Methodist missionary who initially translated Bible passages and psalms into Ojibway, and later created writing systems for several Aboriginal languages, including Ojibwe, Cree, and indirectly Inuktitut.

 

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The Birpai of the Manning River and Purfleet Station

Articles » General
Author/Creator
John Ramsland
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 13, no. 1, March 1989, pp. 3-13
Description
Looks at the history of the first people of the Manning River Valley, the Birpai and the establishment of the Purfleet station in 1900.
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Bison Hunting

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Patrick Young
Darren R. Préfontaine
May 30, 2003
Description
Discussion of the importance of the bison to the Métis way of life and the impact of the decimation of the herds.
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Black Bear Hides

Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Institute for Northern Studies
Description
A pile of frozen black bear hides; location unknown.
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Blackfoot Ethnography

Alternate Title
Archaeological Survey of Alberta Manuscript Series ; no. 8, 1986
Theses
Author/Creator
Kenneth E. Kidd
Description
Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 1937.
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Book Review

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Rob Nestor
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 18, no. 1, 1998, pp. 166-169
Description
Book review of: The Resettlement of British Columbia: Essay on Colonialism and Geographical Change by Cole Harris.
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[Book Review]

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Shepard Krech
Native Studies Review, vol. 3, no. 2, Native Peoples, Museums, and Heritage Resource Management, 1987, pp. 152-155
Description
Review of: Indian-European Trade Relations in the Lower Saskatchewan River Region to 1840 by Paul C. Thistle.
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[Book Review]

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Adrian Tanner
American Anthropologist, vol. 85, no. 1, 1983, pp. 204-205
Description
Book review of: Indians, Animals, and the Fur Trade. A Critique of “Keepers of the Game.” edited by Shepard Krech III.
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Book Review: This Precious Foliage

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Madeleine Smith
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 7, no. 4, December 1983, pp. 41-43
Description
Book review of, Precious Foliage by Pamela Watson.
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Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Various authors
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 24, no. 1, 2004, pp. 223-226
Description
Book reviews of 4 books: A Recognition of Being: Reconstructing Native Womanhood by Kim Anderson. Firewater: The Impact of the Whisky Trade on the Blackfoot Nation by Hugh A. Dempsey. Tales of Ghosts: First Nations Art in British Columbia by Ronald Hawker. Indian Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and Renewal by Patty Loew.
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Book Reviews:

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
David J. Norton
Massimiliano Carocci
Scott R. Trevithick
Guy Lanoue
Allan J. Ryan
Claire R. Farrer
Laurie Milne
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 19, no. 1, 1999, pp. 193-211
Description
Book review of: The Iroquois in the War of 1812 by Carl Benn. The Lakota Ritual and the Sweat Lodge: History and Contemporary Practice by Raymond Bucko. The Legacy of Shingwaukonse: A Century of Native Leadership by Janet E. Chute. The Social Life of Stories: Narrative and Knowledge in the Yukon Territory by Julie Cruikshank. Looking North: Art from the University of Alaska Museum by Aldona Jonaitis (Editor).
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Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
D. N. Sprague. Gary M. Heathcote
Eileen M. McFadden
F. J. Shore
David T. McNab
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 3, no. 2, 1983, pp. 397-410
Description
Book reviews of 5 books: Riel and the Rebellion: 1885 Reconsidered by Thomas Flanagan. Eskimos and Explorers by Wendell H. Oswalt. Bibliography of Algonquian Linguistics by David C. Pentland and Christoph Wolfart. The Genealogy of the First Métis Nation: The Development and Dispersal of the Red River Settlement, 1820-1900 by D.M. Sprague and R.P. Frye. Hold High Your Heads, (History of the Métis Nation in Western Canada by A. H. de Tremaudan.
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Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
William J. Stilwell
E. Peers
Agnes Grant
Lynn Whidden
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 5, no. 2, 1985, pp. 277-282
Description
Book reviews of 4 books: Treaties on Trial by Fay G. Cohen. The Canadian Prairies: A History by Gerald Friesen. New Native American Drama: Three Plays by Hanay Geiogamah. The three plays are entitled Foghorn, 49, and Body Indian. A Homeland for the Cree by Richard F. Salisbury.
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Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Barnett Richling
Jeremy Hull
Paul C. Thistle
James S. Frideres
Ken Hanly
et al.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 12, no. 1, 1992, pp. 147-183
Description
Book reviews of 12 books: Prison of Grass: Canada from a Native Point of View by Howard Adams. From Wooden Ploughs to Welfare: Why Indian Policy Failed in the Prairie Provinces by Helen Buckley. To Please the Caribou: Painted Caribou-Skin Coats Worn by the Naskapi, Montagnais, Cree Hunters of the Quebec-Labrador Peninsula by Dorothy K. Burnham. Manitoba's Metis Settlement Scheme of 1870 Paul L. A. H. Chartrand. Disputed Waters: Native Americans and the Great Lakes Fishery by Robert Doherty. Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains by Charles A.
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Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Various authors
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 21, no. 1, 2001, pp. 179-190
Description
Book reviews of 6 books: Your Fyre Shall Burn No More: Iroquois Policy Toward New France and Its Native Allies to 1701 by José Antonio Brandao. Into the Daylight: A Wholistic Approach to Healing by Calvin Morrisseau. Talking on the Page: Editing Aboriginal Oral Texts by Laura J. Murray and Keren Rice. "Keeping the Lakes' Way:" Reburial and the Re-creation of a Moral World Among an Invisible People by Paul Pryce. Grandmother's Grandchild: My Crow Indian Life by Alma Hogan Snell. Red on Red: Native American Literary Separatism by Craig S. Womack.
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Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Patricia A. McCormack
Ken Hanly
Guy Lanoue
Ron Nestor
David J. Norton
et al.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 14, no. 2, 1994, pp. 395-434
Description
Book review of 14 books: Drum Songs: Glimpses of Dene History by Kerry Abel. Names, Numbers, and Northern Policy by Valerie Alia. Sacred Stories of the Sweet Grass Cree by Leonard Bloomfield. Guide to Oral History Collections in Canada/Guide des fonds d'histoire orale au Canada by Normand Fortier. The Mohicans of Stockbridge by Patrick Frazier. 500 Jahre danach: Zur heutigen Lage der indigenen Volker beider Amerika (500 Years Thereafter: The Present Day Situation of the Indigenous Peoples of Both Americas) edited by Peter R.
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Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Various authors
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 18, no. 2, 1998, pp. 375-385
Description
Book reviews of 5 books: Myths and Legends of the Pacific Northwest edited by Katharine Berry Judson. Trading Beyond the Mountains: The British Fur Trade on the Pacific, 1793-1843 by Richard S. Mackie. Tribal Boundaries in the Nass Watershed by Neil J. Sterrit et al. The Spirit of the Land: Statements of the Gitksan and Wet'suwet'en Chiefs in the Supreme Court of British Columbia 1987-1990 by Wa Gisday and Elgam Uukw. Flowers on My Grave: How an Ojibwa Boy's Death Helped Break the Silence on Child Abuse by Ruth Teichroeb.
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Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Bethany R. Berger
Ted Jojola
William C. Meadows
Joshua Piker
Margaret Noori
Brad Montgomery-Anderson
John K. Donaldson
Edward W. Huffstetler
Carla Mulford
Elizabeth Archuleta
et al.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 33, no. 1, 2009, pp. 143-192
Description
Book reviews of 20 books: American Indians and State Law: Sovereignty, Race, and Citizenship, 1790-1880 by Deborah A. Rosen. Architectural Variability in the Southeast edited by Cameron H. Lacquement. Art from Fort Marion: The Silberman Collection by Joyce M.
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Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Thomas S. Abler
Canadian Journal of Native Studies , vol. 17, no. 1, 1997, pp. 199-201
Description
Book review of: William Bartram on the Southeast Indians by Gregory A. Waselkow and Kathryn E. Holland Braund (Editors). Historical reprint with extensive notes and analysis of Bartram's 18th century perspectives.
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Border Crossings: Thomas King's Cultural Inversions

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Cynthia Sugars
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 38, no. 2, Spring, 2004, pp. 179-183
Description
Book review of: Border Crossings: Thomas King's Cultural Inversions by Arnold E. Davidson, Priscilla L. Walton and Jennifer Andrews.
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Borderlands

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Michael Hogue
Canada's History, vol. 96, no. 4, August/September 2016, pp. 56-57
Description
Interview with the author of, Métis and the Medicine Line: Creating a Border and Dividing People.
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Buffalo Hunt on the CPR in 1883

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Alberta History, vol. 50, no. 3, Summer, 2002, pp. 26-27
Description
Describes a train ride from Medicine Hat to Calgary and first appeared in the British Newspaper The Canadian Gazette on September 20, 1883.
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