An article written by Reginald Beatty describing the events leading to the death of Almighty Voice, a member in One Arrow's Band at the Duck Lake agency.
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 11 negatives from the National Treaty Chief's Meeting at the Beardy's Reserve on July 19, 1988. The first negative shows a procession of dignitaries with the Canadian flag. The second shows an unidentified Chief or elder with the Canadian flag. The third and forth show men apparently in prayer, with the flags of Canada and Great Britain. The fifth and sixth show two men in a tent one, of whom appears to be delivering a speech. The seventh and eighth show a procession of men (one of whom is an Aboriginal RCMP member) with a what appears to be an unidentified flag and a coup stick.
File contains information on activism, agriculture, reserve life, medical services, drug prescriptions, land claims, the Indian Act, Metis, Indigenous rights, chiefs, sterilization of indigenous women, the "Red Paper", discrimination, treaties 8 and 11, recreation, Liquor Act, provincial law, housing, Local Initiatives Programs, utilities on reserves, and poverty.
This essay examines reasons for unrest among the Aboriginal population of the old Northwest in the years leading up to the disturbances of 1885. The writer worked for the Indian Department of the Dominion Government during this time. Item found within folder 1 of file Rebellion, 1885.
Coverage of the trial of Louis Riel, including an appeal of Riel's death sentence. Also covered is Poundmaker's trial in Prince Albert. Item found within folder 1 of file Rebellion, 1885.