Non-Indigenous perspective on history, conditions in late 19th century North America and biographical notes about four young pupils. Also contains part of the constitution of the Canadian Indian Research and Aid Society. The author is a clergyman of the Church of England (Anglican).
Publication of the Manitoba Metis Lands Commission, with articles on English / French explorers and fur traders, the Pemmican War, the Battle of Seven Oaks, the Manitoba Lands Act, and a questionnaire relating to the study of Metish Lands Claims.
On information card: (L-R) Leo Satoksky - left (clerk) DNA, Luke Essaluk - center (clerk) DNA, Ches. Russell - right (hotel) at Hudson's Bay Co. store". Rankin Inlet, N.W.T.
A photograph of several large piles of Buffalo bones probably stacked along 1st Avenue in Saskatoon near the train station where Midtown Plaza now stands. A young man with a long pole stands in front of one pile.
Discussion of the connection between people of the Orkney Islands, Scotland and native people of the Red River area. No indexed terms. No date given, probably in the 1970's.
1 file containing: March 7, 1959: Agenda for the day's cabinet meeting. Includes discussion on sale of a portion of Sarnia Indian Reserve land developers. - April 14, 1959: Agenda for the day's cabinet meeting. Includes discussion on compensation to Indians for air weapons range. - May 19, 1959: Agenda for the day's cabinet meeting. Includes discussion on the sale of Sarnia Indian Reserve lands. - September 2, 1959: Agenda for the day's cabinet meeting. Includes discussion on extension of liquor privileges to Ontario reserves.
Consists of an interview with George First Rider where he tells the story of a medicine man named Bear Hat (later renamed Curlew). He tells how Bear Hat was revived after serious injury and how Bear Hat healed a young man wounded in a battle.
Consists of an interview with George First Rider where he tells the story of a boy given supernatural powers by the bears and of his subsequent success as a healer of his own wounds and those of other people or animals.
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
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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.
A photograph of several large stacks of Buffalo bones stacked in the shape of box cars. They were the first cash commodity shipped from Saskatoon and were stacked along 1st Avenue near the train station where Midtown Plaza now stands.
Task Force on Delivery of Legal Services to Native People of B.C.
Description
The organization, Task Force on Delivery of Legal Services to Native People of B.C., seeks to help Aboriginals deal with the legal system and makes several recommendations, including increasing the number of lawyers, court workers and RCMP members of Aboriginal descent, and to provide pre-paid legal services to Aboriginals.
Consists of an interview with George First Rider where he describes the ceremonies associated with the construction of a Holy Lodge. Note: Dave Melting Tallow, interpreter. Joanne Greenwood, transcriber.
Township Plan of Township 43, Range 1, West of the Third Meridian showing St. Laurent Settlement and the Batoche Ferry Crossing. Also shows location of plots relative to the One Arrow Indian Reserve.
Some Thoughts about Organization and Leadership: From a Paper Presented to the Manitoba Indian Brotherhood 1967
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Author/Creator
Wilfred Pelletier
Description
The first article recounts the author's childhood and young adulthood in the Manitoulin, Ontario area. The second article is entitled "Some Thoughts About Organization and Leadership; From A Paper Presented to the Manitoba Indian Brotherhood, 1967."
File contains a negative from a ceremony held in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan by the Urban Indian Association to honour graduates on May 2, 1970. Image shows men receiving diplomas on stage.
Walter Bradford talks about his life: education, preparation of food, transportation, work, and the role of the Hudson's Bay Company in people's lives.