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Exhibit of Indian village
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The Face Pullers: Ch.1 Images - "Cree Indians, Blanket Costume"
The Face Pullers: Ch.2 Images - :"'Pointed Cap,' Cree Indian, with His Fifth Squaw"
The Face Pullers: Ch.3 Images - "Knitting and Spinning at St. Albert School"
Black and white photograph of a class of young Indigenous girls learning to knit and spin at the St. Albert industrial school. From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
The Face Pullers: Ch.3 images - "Learning Saddlery and Bootmaking, St. Albert School, 1898"
Black and white photograph of a class of Indigenous youths learning saddlery and bootmaking at the St. Albert industrial school. From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
The Face Pullers: Ch.3 images - Reserve Indians
Black and white photograph of four Indigenous men wearing western clothing, taken on a reserve in Alberta. From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
The Face Pullers: Ch. 3 Images - St. Albert Brass Band
Black and white photograph of the members of the St. Albert Brass Band posing with instruments. From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
The Face Pullers - Unused Photos - "Dairying, Industrial School, St. Albert"
The Face Pullers - Unused Photos - "High River Industrial School Football Team"
The Face Pullers - Unused Photos "Knitting and Spinning Department, Industrial School, St. Albert"
The Face Pullers - Unused Photos - "Sewing Department, Industrial School, St. Albert"
Horse and Travois at Pion-Era
John and Olive Diefenbaker with Elizabeth of Moose Woods
John Diefenbaker Being Named Chief Standing Buffalo
Pion-Era parade
Prime Minister Diefenbaker views map
Provincial Archives of Alberta: "St. Albert Convent"
Rev. Canon Edward Ahenakew
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"Born at Sandy Lake on June 11, 1885, this grandnephew of Chief Poundmaker attended the missionary school on the Sandy Lake Reserve, and then the boarding school in Prince Albert, where he proved an able scholar and an impressive athlete. After boarding school Ahenakew returned to Sandy Lake, where he assisted his father until he was invited to teach at a missionary school on the James Smith Reserve.Rows of tipis and crowd
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