Allen Ahenakew, Interpreter, and E.R. Conn, Federal Supervisor of Indian Affairs, at microphones at the Trappers Convention in Prince Albert, SK, 1961.
Comments on an artist, Rebecca Belmore, who created a giant megaphone as a protest piece and toured it across Canada in 1992 including a 3-day stop at the Protectors of the Mother Earth Wiggins Bay Blockade in Northern Saskatchewan.
Duration: 26:13.
A brief overview of the history of Fort Battleford created for Fort Battleford National Historic Park in 1961. Produced by the Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources: National Historic Sites Division. The booklet covers the Forts origins as a police post, the events of the 1885 uprising, and the decline of the fort as well as the establishment of a park.
File contains 4 negatives of performers on stage at the Indian Metis [illegible] Concert on November 24, 1961. The first negative shows a young boy on stage performing a dance. The second shows a man playing the accordion. The third shows a large group of women singing with alongside a piano playing accompaniest. The fourth shows a man with a guitar accompanying a woman singing. The fifth shows a man either singing or announcing at a microphone.
"National publication for the Indians of Canada". Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Previously published as Indian Missionary Record.
Articles reflect the attitudes and polices of the time.
"National publication for the Indians of Canada". Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Previously published as Indian Missionary Record.
Articles reflect the attitudes and polices of the time.
Scanned negative shows female students in uniform with an instructor on Visiting Day held on March 8, 1961 at the Prince Albert Indian School (presumably All Saints Residential School).
Female elder seated indoors next to window. Annotation on back of photo: 61-321-33: Jossette Morris, 75 year old Chipewyan Indian, who lives at Patuanak, works on birch bark baskets. Lacing is made from dyed birch roots.
The scanned image shows a shot of someone dressed as Santa Claus with a group of children and a school official at the Kinsmen Christmas Party at the Indian School (All Saints?) in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan taken on December 17, 1961.
On information card: "Mrs. Andela Solomon, Patuanak, 75 year old Chipewyan Indian, working on a birch bark basket, an art she learned from her mother. Also makes moccasins decorated with porcupine quills, almost a lost art amongst the Indians."
Prairie Forum, vol. 17, no. 1, Spring, 1992, pp. 79-96
Description
Examines the role three popular artists (a folk singer, a film maker and a novelist) have played to recreate historical perspectives of the prairie region.
Image of painting by Perehudoff which hangs in the museum at Batoche. The painting depicts the Northcote hitting the lowered ferry cables, May 9, 1885.
Photograph of Perehudoff a painting which hangs in the Batoche Museum. The images depicts Riel riding on horseback through the gun pits yielding a cross above his head.
Describes the significance of some ledger-type Assiniboine drawings by an unknown artist and how they record a lifestyle that has disappeared from the Canadian Plains.
File contains a presentation by Nelson Sanderson regarding the need to connect Metis youth and the general public with the history and culture of the Metis people. Following the presentation is a discussion with the Commissioners regarding these issues.
Image depicts Bill Epp's statue of Gabriel Dumont astride a horse. The statue is located in Friendship Park near the Broadway Bridge in Saskatoon. The first image is taken facing toward Spadina Crescent.