A photograph of Chief Eagle from Whitecap Indian Reserve, as he opens Young Canada Book Week in the Children's reading area, 2nd floor of the Main Branch of the Saskatoon Public Library. He wears feathered headdress and buckskin with bead work and fringes. Two Aboriginal women and four non-Aboriginal children are in the photo as well.
Black and white photograph of Chief Prosper John (on left) and another indigenous man from the One Arrow Reserve near Batoche Saskatchewan sitting on a pile of wood wearing European clothing.
A photograph of Chief Thunderchild, standing in front of a tent wearing a military style coat and treaty medals. Rev. Edward Ahenakew recorded Thunderchild's narratives and compiled them in the book, VOICES OF THE PLAINS CREE.
The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Charles W. Mathers (photographer)
Description
Black and white photograph of Chief Pakan, seated in western clothes and pose.
Unused photograph from the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
John Diefenbaker standing amongst a crowd of elementary students from the Indian Baptist Mission and Christ the King School and high school students from Whitehorse Elementary High School, Whitehorse.