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Aboriginal Constable
A photograph of an Aboriginal (Cree) man wearing a military style outfit and holding a rifle. He wears a gun belt with ammunition and a revolver on his right hip. The gun belt and revolver are probably George Mann Jr's property, and it is likely that he staged this photograph. A gun belt and revolver are artifacts held by a direct descendant of Mann Jr. Picture was possibly taken on Onion Lake or Saddle Lake reserve between 1900 and 1930. Mann was known to visit these areas well into the 1920s.
Aboriginal Family by Teepee
A photograph of a Metis? man with a Cree? woman and her child standing outside a teepee. Picture possibly taken by George Mann family who worked with Cree people in Onion Lake, Saddle Lake and Hobbema reserves between 1883 and 1916. Members of the family were known to continue to visit these areas well into the 1920s.
Aboriginal Family Outside Teepee
Aboriginal Group Photo
The Athabasca Barges
Battleford and Medicine Hat - Newspaper clipping - 9 May 1885.
Bibliography of the Athapascan Languages
Buffalo River Band, Flying Dust No. 105, Joseph Bighead Band, and Waterhen Lake First Nations - Primrose Lake Air Weapons Range Inquiry II - Public Release
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Consists of reports, maps, correspondence/letters, legal documents, submissions, oral transcripts, and the French and English versions of the Final Report. [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.]
Canoe Lake First Nation, Primrose Lake Air Weapons Range Inquiry I, Public Release
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Documents consist of documents, correspondence/letters, claim submissions, and the final report in regards to the inquiry, which examined the seizure of 4,500 square miles of land for the weapons range. Commissioners include: Harry S. LaForme, Daniel J. Bellegarde, and P.E. James Prentice. [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.]
Cold Lake First Nation, Primrose Lake Air Weapons Range Inquiry, Public Release
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Consists of minutes, transcripts, statements, correspondence/letters, submissions, and reports regarding the historical claim grievances of two First Nations who had 4,500 square miles of land seized to create the weapons range. Commissioners include: Harry S. LaForme, Daniel J. Bellegarde, and P.E. James Prentice. [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.]
Cree Camp on the Prairies
Cree Family Near Building
[Crime Report re Little Pine Reserve Indians ... Alleged Sun Dance]; [Re: Indian Sundance, Rocky Mountain House District, Alberta]
First document is a report written by Kingston, dated July 6, 1928, asks for instructions regarding whether or not participants should be charged given the fact that the event did not appear to violate the Indian Act. Second document is a letter by McCormack, describing ceremonies which took place at Rocky Mountain House and Hobbema, Alberta.
The Déné Languages: Considered in Themselves and Incidentally in Their Relations to Non-American Idioms
Descriptions and Plans of Certain Indian Reserves in the Province of Manitoba and the North-West Territories, 1889
Diary of Francis Dickens - Vernon LaChance. - May 1930.
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Dr. A.B. Stewart Papers - Miscellaneous. - n.d..
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Dr. A.B. Stewart acted as coroner for the Royal North West Mounted Police and had a medical practice at Rosthern, Saskatchewan in the late 1800s-early 1900s.Dr. Russell's Carlton Trail
Father Lacombe: The Black-Robe Voyageur
Federal -- Provincial Welfare Services -- Indian Eskimo Welfare
Five Fur Traders of the Northwest: Being the Narrative of Peter Pond and the Diaries of John Macdonell, Archibald N. McLeod, Hugh Faries, and Thomas Connor
Fort Pitt Historic Park - Pamphlet.. - 1967.
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Forty Years in the North-West
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W.J. Carter was a carpenter in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan (NWT).Foundations of Government in the West / a paper delivered before the Regina Canadian Club / By Commissioner A.B. Perry, C.M.G. - 1 January 1910.
Frog Lake Massacre
[G. F. Shepherd, Notes 1937-1974]
File contains hand written and typed notes of historian George Shepherd, dated from 1937-1974. The notes include several pages on Aboriginal history in the North-West, that were scanned for this database. This includes a wide variety of material: from copy of a letter written by Louis Riel, to a list of the reserves in Saskatchewan in 1962 and their estimated landbase and populations.
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