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The 18th Century Western Cree and Their Neighbours: Identity and Territory
Aboriginal Archery and European Firearms on the Northern Great Plains and in the Central Subarctic: Survival and Adaptation, 1670-1870
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 Weapons and Pipe
Adventures of a Surveyor in the Canadian Northwest, 1880-1883
Alberta Between the Wars, 1919-1939: The Photographs of William J. Oliver
Assortment of Aboriginal Artifacts
Big Bear
Blackfoot Digital Library
"Blood Indian Carrying Tomahawk"
Butler’s “Great Lone Land”
Charcoal, a Blood Indian
Historical note:
Charcoal (Si'-okskitsis) was renowned for his strength and cunning as a warrior. He killed his wife's lover, fired at an Indian agent and a NWMP, and later killed a NWMP sergeant and was executed in 1897.Chief Joseph and the Cypress Hills
The Common and Contested Ground: A History of the Northwestern Plains from A.D. 200 to 1806
Conflict or Cooperation?: Blackfoot Trade Strategies, 1794-1815
CPR Telegraph Ledger: The North-West Resistance
Cree Code Talker
Short documentary about Charles "Checker" Tomkins, a Métis from Grouard, Alberta, and his service during his attachment to the U.S. Air Force in World War II.
Duration: 13:31.
The Cypress Hills Massacre—A Century’s Retrospect
"Don't Mess with the Relay - It's Bad Medicine": Aboriginal Culture and the 1988 Olympics
The Early West
Empty Hills: Aboriginal Land Usage and the Cypress Hills Problem
Expedition of the North-West Mounted Police of Canada into the Saskatchewan Territory
The Face Pullers: Ch .3 Images - Mike Foxhead, WWI Soldier with Friends
Photograph of World War I soldier Mike Foxhead with Blackfoot Friends, prior to going overseas. Foxhead served with the 191st Overseas Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force and lost his life in the trenches. From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
The Face Pullers - Unused Photos "Indian Queen - Macleod Jubilee"
Forty Years in the North-West
Historical note:
W.J. Carter was a carpenter in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan (NWT).Frog Lake Cairn
Historical note:
"Although it was not a military engagement, the incident known as the Frog Lake Massacre proved to be one of the most influential events associated with the North-West Resistance. Incited by hunger and mistreatment rather than political motives, a breakaway element of the Plains Cree murdered nine White men on the morning of April 2, 1885, in Frog Lake, North-West Territories (now Alberta).Frog Lake cemetery
Frog Lake Massacre
The Frog Lake Reader
From Fireside to TV Screen Self-Determination and Anishnaabe Storytelling Traditions
The Fur Trade and Western Canadian Society 1670-1870
The Great Lone Land: A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America
Greener Social Constructions: Marie Lake, Fort Chipewyan, and the Alberta Oil Sands
Healing the Impact of Colonization, Genocide, Missionization, and Racism on Indigenous Populations
Histoire abrégée de l'Ouest Canadien: Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta et Grand-Nord
Images Used -- Chapter 2 (A Dying Race)
In Memory of Mary Rose (Pritchard) Sayers: The Last Witness
"An Indian is Almost as Free as Any Other Person": Exclusionary Liberalism, Surveillance and Indigenous Resistance in Southern Alberta and the British Columbia Interior, 1877 to 1927
Indigenous Veterans of the First World War and their Families in the Prairie West
Discusses how an examination of 45 military pension files of veterans from Treaty 4, 6 and 7 territories illustrates that racist attitudes and structures prevented the proper administration of benefits.