File contains 2 negatives from a Federation of Saskatchewan Indians Conference held at the old Coronet Hotel in Prince Albert, SK, on November 14, 1967. The two images show conference participants posing.
File contains 2 negatives of a guest speaker and two other unidentified inviduals at a meeting of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indians (presumably in Prince Albert, SK) on October 28, 1969.
Images from the fifth annual Native American Bilingual Education Conference, held at Saskatoon Centennial Auditorium. Shown is National Indian Brotherhood president Noel Starblanket, and Federation of Saskatchewan Indians president David Ahenakew, May 16, 1977.
50 images (12 of which have been scanned here) of First Nations leaders speaking to guests at the Bessborough Hotel in Saskatoon on April 22, 1976. Many wear full head dresses. It appears to be a gathering to discuss treaty issues led by Federation of Saskatchewan Indians Chief David Ahenakew.
File contains 4 negatives from a Federation of Saskatchewan Indians convention held in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan on March 30, 1971. Four scanned negatives show various scenes of participants at the conference.
"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 policies of the time.
File contains a series of negatives from a ceremony installing Ovide Mercredi as an honorary prisoner at the Saskatchewan Penitentiary in Prince Albert, SK. The negatives contain pictures of Mercredi (National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations 1991-1997) receiving a certificate from unidentified (Penitentiary?) officials.
File contains 2 negatives from an unidentified National Chief's Conference Panel (Prince Albert?) held on March 5, 1989. The negatives show a variety of unidentified officials sitting at a table, during a panel discussion.
Three photographs (2 scanned here) of David Ahenakew, president of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indians, speaking at an NDP convention in Saskatoon, November 19, 1977.
1 file containing Volume 9, Number 2 of the Saskatchewan Indian magazine; House of Commons debates regarding the protection of Indian treaty; Letter to Hon. Bud Cullen, Minister of Employment and Immigration, from Chief Harold Kingfisher of the Sturgeon Lake Band and Doug Cuthand, requesting that the government explain why the Sturgeon Lake Band has not received any Canada Works funding in the past three years
File contains 11 negatives of the official flag raising ceremony at the Opening of the Prince Albert District Chief's Offices in Prince Albert, SK on March 25, 1988. The pictures show what appear to be Chiefs and other officials outside the District Offices assembled for the flag ceremony.
File contains a series of negatives from a meeting between Roland Crowe and Civic Officials in Prince Albert. The officials are posing for a portrait in all three. Crowe was Chief of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations at the time, and is on the far left of the negatives. The individual on the far right of all three negatives is Gordon Kirkby, mayor of Prince Albert.
File contains a presentation by Chief Harry Cook, La Ronge Indian Band. Cook welcomes Commissioners Erasmus and Chartrand to La Ronge, and expresses his solidarity with other Aboriginal peoples such as the Metis. Cook also discusses the importance of Treaties to his people.
This file contains a portion of a transcript of a sitting of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples at Regina Friendship Centre, Regina, Saskatchewan. This portion of the Commission includes a presentation made by Ken Thomas of the Saskatchewan Indian Agriculture Program, concerning treaty rights in agriculture, investment in Indian Farm Units and distribution of treaty land entitlement. Questions from the assembled commissioners are also included.
File contains a presentation by Miranda Prosper, a grade 6 student from the Wahpeton Reserve School. Prosper discusses changes she would like to see on the Wahpeton Reserve. These include more policing, an alochol ban, more funding for roads, a Dakota language immersion program for young children, a better firehall, and a safer bus stop.
File contains a presentation by Warner Goodvoice, Social Development Administrator, Wahpeton Band. Goodvoice discusses self governance, funding and bureaucratic issues particualarly with regard to the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations. Goodvoice argues that it is neccessary to get more grassroots engagement and funding into these structures. Following the presentation Comissioner Wilson questions Goodvoice on what he thinks self-governance would mean in pratice and he answers here.
File contains 5 negatives showing two men being made honorary Chiefs of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indians (presumably in Prince Albert, SK) on November 15, 1967.
File contains 2 negatives of an unidentified man (possibly a Chief) recieving a plaque from an undintified official at the official opening of the District Chief's Office in Prince Albert, SK, in March, 1988.