Elders discuss: payment for chiefs; conduct of and assistance at ceremonies; need for respect towards ceremonies and ceremonial locations. No date given, probably in the early 1970's.
Elders, men and women, reminisce on their early lives involving hard work and strict discipline and voice regrets that the young people of today are not given enough guidance.
Discussion of the need to preserve dances and other ceremonies in their original format and to show respect for them. No date given, probably Dec. 5-8, 1972 like the other files in this series.
The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Norman Caple
Description
Black and White Photograph of a camp on a Blackfoot Reserve in the North West Territories during a Sun Dance Gathering, with an indigenous person sitting in the foreground.
From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
On information card: Grave found in association with La Loche House with a Hudson's Bay Fort. Principle features are the cross at the head of the grave and a picket wood fence. Methy Portage, SK.
"National publication for the Indians of Canada." Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Previously published as Indian Missionary Record.
Articles reflect the attitudes and policies of the time.
Remarks on the Ethnology of British Columbia: Introductory to the Second General Report of Dr. Franz Boas on the Indians of That Province
Second General Report on the Indians of British Columbia
E-Books
Author/Creator
Franz Boas
Horatio Hale
Description
Committee appointed to research physical characters, languages and industrial and social conditions of the peoples of British Columbia including the Kwakiutl, Tsimshians, and Salish peoples.