Allen Ahenakew, Interpreter, and E.R. Conn, Federal Supervisor of Indian Affairs, at microphones at the Trappers Convention in Prince Albert, SK, 1961.
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.
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."