Search
'Always with Them Either a Feast or a Famine': Living Off the Land with Chipewyan
The Buffalo People: Prehistoric Archaeology on the Canadian Plains
Canada – Indian and Inuit Communities – Prairie Provinces
Canadian "Range Wars": Struggles over Indian Cowboys
Categories and Terrains of Exclusion: Constructing the "Indian Woman" in the Early Settlement Era in Western Canada
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.]
Contemporary Indigenous Women’s Roles: Traditional Teachings or Internalized Colonialism?
COVID-19 Information for First Nations in Alberta
[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 Failure of the Red Deer Industrial School
From Wooden Ploughs to Welfare: How Indian Policy Failed in the Prairie Reserves
The Future of Aboriginal Urbanization in Prairie Cities: Select Annotated Bibliography and Literature Review on Urban Aboriginal Issues in the Prairie Provinces
Heart Work: Weaving Relationality into Métis Material Culture Repatriation
History of Métis Lands in Alberta
How the (North) West Was Won: Development and Underdevelopment in the Fort Chipewyan Region
The Indian Agents of Fort Chipewyan: Bureaucrats in Isolation
Indigenous Business Women
Insights from a Jordan’s Principle Child First Initiative in Alberta: Implications for Advancing Health Equity for First Nations Children
Examines the implementation of Canada's Child First Initiative and some of the challenges that it faced.
Introduction to Document One
Introduction and letter from Indian Agent dated June 4th, 1895 to his superior regarding abuse taking place at the school. Recommends that a teacher should be brought before the Magistrate, fined, and dismissed.
Introduction to Documents Two and Three
Introduction and two archival items discuss the employment of Aboriginals in the agricultural sector. The first deals with the Dept. of Indian Affairs efforts to recruit them as migrant farm workers. The second discusses the exclusion of farm workers from protection under labour laws. Taken from the 1966 National Agricultural Manpower Committee Meeting.
Language Use and School Performance in a Native Classroom
Man and Resources of the Canadian Plains
Métis
Métis Nation Climate Change & Health Vulnerability Assessment
More Than Words: Outlining Preconditions to Collaboration Among First Nations, the Federal Government, and the Provincial Government
Looks at the work towards creating a more collaborative relationship between the different levels of government and its Indigenous populations. In particular the articles focuses on the precondition phase of the collaboration process.
Native Images: Reserve Hospitals in Southern Alberta, 1890 to 1930
Native Students in a Community College: Perceptions of Upgrading and Career Students
Using questionnaires the author examines the different perceptions of Indigenous community college students that were either getting a certificate and those upgrading their education.
Natives Plan to Protest 'Immoral' Health Care Cuts
New Branch of Peace Hills Trust Opens in Saskatoon
The Northern Great Plains: Pantry of the Northwestern Fur Trade, 1774–1885
Our Betrayed Wards: A Story of "Chicanery, Infidelity and the Prostitution of Trust"
Originally published in 1921. This version transcribed, curated and with additions. The author was the Indian Agent for the "Blood and Peigan" Indians from 1898 to 1911.
The Path to Healing: Report of the National Round Table on Aboriginal Health and Social Issues
The Paths to Realizing Reconciliation: Indigenous Consultation in Jasper National Park
Using interviews from the Jasper Indigenous Forum (JIF) the authors examines the struggle for Indigenous representations into how their culture is presented.