This file contains excerpts from Reginald Beatty's diary, correspondence about his encounters with Cree people, and letters home to his parents detailing his experience in the 1885 Riel Rebellion. Mr. Beatty was a farmer and fur trader in what is now known as the Melfort area of Saskatchewan.
Native Studies Review, vol. 1, no. 1, 1984, pp. 40-66
Description
Argues that the changes during this period were largely a result of transitioning from the fur trade, to an economy that was more diversified and commercialized.
Subtitled: "Entered according to act of Parliament of Canada, in the year 1885 by Prof. Buell in the office of the ministry of agriculture." Image of Lt. Gov. Dewdney and a troop of military men in uniform. In the foreground are 6 chiefs.
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 4, no. 1, 1984, pp. 51-66
Description
Examines the potential and likelihood for resource development, impact of existing government policies and implications with respect to economic development on reserves.
Film about the Québec Provincial Police (QPP) raid on the Restigouche Reserve in June 1981 due to disputes over the salmon-fishing rights of the Micmac people. This film deal with mature subject matter. Viewer discretion is advised.
Duration: 45:57.
Prairie Forum, vol. 9, no. 2, Fall, 1984, pp. 181-201
Description
Outlines the progression of mineral resource use in the Canadian Plains, from surface minerals, to buried deposits such as oil, gas, coal, potash, sodium, sulphate and sulphur.
Aboriginal History, vol. 8, no. 2, 1984, pp. 203-207
Description
Book reviews of:
Aboriginal Land Rights: A Handbook edited by Nicolas Peterson.
Aborigines, Land and Land Rights edited by Nicolas Peterson and Marcia Langton.
A photograph of Metis positions on the Fish Creek battleground, likely taken shortly after the battle by a Canadian Army photographer. Presumably the Metis soldiers were positioned in the wooded area of the coulee visible ahead in the photograph. This may be the opening scene of the battle where Middleton's Scouts were met by an opening fusilade from the Metis ranks. The farmhouse visible on the right is possibly Tourond's house, for whose family the place takes its Metis name of "Tourond's Coulee."
Includes Saskatoon City Council minutes from a meeting on Monday, June 11, 1984 regarding a request by Bruce Sanderson of the Saskatchewan Association of Friendship Centres that City Council respond to a tentative proposal to integrate Aboriginal people in Urban Communities. The Council moves that the letter be received and referred to the Planning and Development Committee.
Synthesis of assessments by managers throughout Department of Indian and Northern Affairs of operating environment. Outlines main issues and constraints which had affected operational planning process. Includes statistics from Indian Conditions: A Survey published in 1980.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 8, no. 1, Winter, 1984, pp. 1-35
Description
An analysis of the implementation of US federal aid policies and how their distribution created a larger economic divide for Indigenous citizens against non-Indigenous ones. Very little funds make it to the Indigenous people or were used to promote private-sector activities.
Mrs. Trudeau talks about being adopted and the schooling she received as a child. Mr. Trudeau talks about growing up on the farm, and later working in the lumber and fishing industries. Interpreter : Ernest Debassigae ; transcriber : Joanne Greenwood.
William and Helen Trudeau discuss the traditional ways of gathering, preserving and storing food. They also talk about the origins of some traditional stories. Interpreter : E. Debassigae ; transcribed by J. Greenwood.