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This file contains a variety of documents pertaining to the Halfbreed Scrip Commission in the Saskatchewan District of the North West Territories following the Northwest Resistance. It also contains documents referring to the scrip issued to scouts who took part in suppressing the 1885 uprising.
A photographic portrait of "Gentleman" Joe McKay of Prince Albert. McKay was a Metis North West Mounted Police Scout, and held by some to have fired the first shots in the Northwest Uprising of 1885 at Duck Lake. This is a studio portrait with McKay posed in costume.
A photographic studio portrait of "Gentleman" Joe McKay and Chief Mistawasis studying a book while sitting. Likely taken sometime after the 1885 uprising.
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.
The individual in the photograph is on guard duty at a sentry post at Prince Albert, NWT, 1885. A few possibilities exist for what this photograph represents. It appears to be a Northwest Mounted Police man (note the pith helmet), or less likely, a member of the Prince Albert Volunteers, or the Prince Albert Home Guard taken during the "siege" of Prince Albert.