You are Asked to Witness: The Stó:lō in Canada's Pacific Coast History
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Keith Thor Carlson
Description
Looks at the clinical features of the disease, the spread of the disease, its effects on the Stó:lō people, and how they coped with the social and cultural impact of losing so many members of their nation.
Chapter two from You are Asked to Witness: The Stó:lō in Canada's Pacific Coast History edited by Keith Thor Carlson.
File contains 15 negatives showing people at the Prince Albert Indian and Metis Friendship Centre during its' twenty-fifth anniversary on June 16, 1988. The 15 scanned images show eleven negatives showing various people within the Friendship Centre building, and five negatives showing traditional dancers in front of the Prince Albert City Hall.
File contains 4 negatives from a celebration held to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the Prince Albert Indian-Metis Friendship Centre. The celebration was held on July 7, 1988. The four scanned images include pictures of chuckwagon races.
File contains 4 negatives from a meeting of the Indian and Metis Saskatchewan Association of Local Northern Governments, presumably held in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan on May 12, 1988. Two scanned images show meeting participants at the conference table.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 21, no. 1, 1997, pp. 131-154
Description
Discusses the impact of various legislation including the Jay Treaty of 1794, which assured border crossing rights, the 1891 Immigration Act deeming them neither USA nor Canadian citizens, and the Alien Registration Act of 1940 that classified First Nations as aliens.
File contains a photograph of an unidentified man receiving a plaque from an unidentified official at the grand opening of the District Chief's office in Prince Albert, SK on March 25, 1988.
File contains 2 negatives from a ceremony held at the Prince Albert Indian Metis Friendship Centre to commemorate the official opening of the Iskwew program for abused women.
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 27, no. 1, April 1997, p. 18
Description
Ocean Man First Nation elects an all-female Council and Chief for the first time in this country. The first election for Chief resulted in a tie, and in the runoff one month later Chief Laura Big Eagle was elected on February 14, 1997.
Bill was supposed to remedy the sexually discriminatory section 12(1)(b) of the Indian Act; deals with who is entitled to Status. Document covers issues such as reinstatement backlog and priorities, registration documentation, identification of father/illegitimate children, and funding issues (health, education, housing, child welfare) resulting from increase in status population.
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 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.