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A Brief History of the Military Career of Lieutenant R. Lyndhurst Wadmore, Infantry School Corps, April 8, 1885 to July 20, 1885, N.W. Campaign.
Historical note:
Robinson Lyndhurst Wadmore, who was born in England in 1855, entered the Canadian forces as a lieutenant in 1883 and served with the Royal Canadian Regiment during the Northwest Resistance of 1885. Wadmore became a colonel in 1910. He died in Victoria, BC, in 1955.By Canoe and Dog Train Among the Cree and Salteaux Indians
The Canadian Indian (vol. 1, no. 1, Oct., 1890 - vol.1, no. 12, Sept., 1891)
Missionary publication. Content and language reflect the attitudes and policies of the times.
Chief Poundmaker
Contribution to Passamaquoddy Folk-Lore
The Delight Makers
The Déné Languages: Considered in Themselves and Incidentally in Their Relations to Non-American Idioms
[Diary of James Mackinlay]
One bound copy of the diary maintained by Mackinlay May 7- August 23, 1890 during a summer journey northward from near Taltheilei on the east end of Great Slave Lake in the company of Wharburton Pike. Pike used the diary freely in his narrative of the journey called The Barren Grounds of Northern Canada. Mention of "Indians" in various situations and circumstances from trading and guiding to getting equipment made or repaired. Frequent mention of caribou and other animals killed and fish caught.
English-Eskimo and Eskimo-English Vocabularies
The Face Pullers: Ch.1 Images - Camp at Great Sun Dance, Blackfoot Reserve
The Face Pullers: Ch.1 Images - Gathering in Broadview with Drum
The Face Pullers: Ch.1 images - Indigenous people with oxen visiting settlers in Battleford area
The Face Pullers: Ch.2 Images - "Cree Indian"
The Face Pullers: Ch.2 Images - "The Roaming Hunter Tribes, Warlike and Fierce".
The Face Pullers: Ch. 2 Images - The Roaming Hunter Tribes, Warlike and Fierce
The Face Pullers: Ch. 3 Images - Students of Dunbow School (St. Joseph's) with Buns and Bread
Black and white photograph of students of Dunbow School showing their baking. From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
The Face Pullers - Unused Photos - "Indian Family with Squaw Man"
The Face Pullers - Unused Photos - Indigenous People from the Reserve
The Federal Government's Funding of Indian Residential Schools in Canada For the Years 1877 to 1965
Forty Years Among the Indians: A True Yet Thrilling Narrative of the Author's Experiences Among the Natives
Grand Portage National Monument: Historic Documents Study
Identifies and describes archival collections in North America that hold primary material relating to the site.
Images Used: Chapter 2 (A Dying Race): "Stoney Indians".
Indian family.
An International Idiom: A Manual of the Oregon Trade Language, or "Chinook Jargon"
James Evans, Inventor of the Syllabic System of the Cree Language
James Walsh Papers - Letter to Cora Walsh from J.M. Walsh - 31 May 1890.
Letters To The Editor
Several letters to the editor commenting on various Indigenous health initiatives taking place in Australia.