Provides late Victorian perspective on the history of Tsimshian peoples, and the then current challenge of government policies, pressures to surrender lands and community relocation.
2nd edition.
A photograph of students and staff in front of the Indian Industrial School at Battleford. Photograph shows the new east wing added in 1889. Religious and academic subjects, trade courses and a physical education program were included in the curriculum. The students at the far right hold musical instruments (trumpet, bass drum and snare drum are partially visible).
Sixty-three elders' interviews from the Treaty 8 area were reviewed for references to land, and of these, all but fourteen contain some sort of statement about land.
Author uses various anthropological and historical sources to throw some light on the way in which the Indians of the Treaty 6 and 7 regions might have interpreted the treaty promises.
Three articles on missionary life, the first describing events of Christmas 1888 in Bella Bella, BC. The second article is a letter from Rev. John Nelson, dated 7 March 1889, discussing the Mountain Stoney Aboriginal population present in the Saskatchewan District. The third article is a letter from Rev. A.E. Green, dated 11 February 1889, concerning the frustration relating to the land issue in the Naas River, BC, area.
A photograph in a scrap book (A-792-2) that shows Santa (Charlie Beattie) with an unknown Native girl at the North Battleford Indian Hospital 25 December 1953.
Consists of an interview where Verna Patronella Johnston speaks of uses for traditional foods and medicines. She also gives an account of Grandma Jones, a storyteller.
This file contains copies of records from the General Synod Archives, Anglican Church of Canada, pertaining to St. Barnabas' Mission on the Onion Lake Indian Reserve, operated by the Church Missionary Society until l921. Most of the material consists of letters by the missionary to the Society in England and extracts from the missionary's journals, 1876-1895. Also included is a typed chronology of the mission to 1983 and a typed copy of an account of the Frog Lake Massacre told by Mr. J.S. Buller in l969.
First page describes ease of learning this system: "a hundred times easier than the old writing" with "Two million people...throughout the world already practising this system of phonography." The Phonetic Alphabet(front cover, inset).
Title and document are in Kitksan (Gitksan), from the New Testiment (Bible) chapter,Luke, translated by A. E. Price, a 19th century Anglican missionary on the Skeena River.
William Okeymaw was 12 years old at the time when he attended the Treaty #8 negotiations.He describes the negotiations and his understanding of the promises made; the role of the missionaries; talks of some of the Indian agents; and the abundance of buffalo in Lesser Slave Lake area at one time.
William Okeymaw attended the signing of Treaty 8 when he was 12 years old. He talks about: signing of treaty; treaty promises; establishment of reserves around Lesser Slave Lake; and expansion of these reserves as population grew; and the present need for further expansion.
Selected excerpts from bound published volume of narrative which covers such topics as the early settlement and development of the western regions of what is now Canada. Among other subjects, Metis land grants and scrip, fur traders, buffalo hunting and methods of transportation used by Natives, and the Northwest Resistance are covered.