Aboriginal stone pickers, Davidson
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Aboriginal stone pickers working in a field near Davidson, SK. Date unknown.
Historical note:
Ernest J. Morris (1905-2004) was a lumberman who lived and worked near the reserve (Opaskwayak?) at The Pas, Manitoba ca. 1940s.Indigenous and Caucasian men trading furs and other items at Fort Pitt, including (left to right) Four Sky Thunder, Sky Bird, Matoose, Napasis, Big Bear, Angus McKay, Otto Dufresne, Louis Goulet, Stanley Simpson, Mr. Rowley, Alex McDonald, Captain R. B. Sletch, Mr. Edmund and Henry Dufrain.
From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
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