The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939
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Author/Creator
George Anderton
Description
Black and White Photograph of (left to right, starting back row) Jean L'Heureux, Red Crow, Sargent Percy, Crowfoot, Eagle Tail, and Three Bulls taken en route to Ottawa
From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
This news release announces that the Glenbow Museum has acquired the archival collection of Oliver B. Buell, a distinguished CPR photographer during the late 19th century. Among the significant documents is an important letter written by Louis Riel on 1 August 1885, at the time of his trial for treason, and photographs taken by Buell at Riel's trial include a courtroom scene and portraits of Riel's defense lawyers.
This file contains a presentation by Rosemary Brown focusing on education, the First Nations Chartered Lands Act and the Lubicon Lake Cree land claim. Education funding cutbacks are threatening to close the Plains Indian Cultural Survival School, an important facility for Aboriginal youth education in Calgary. The Lands Act will empower Chiefs and Council to request that reserve lands by privatized and available for mortgages, and Brown requests that the Act be scrapped.