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.
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.
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.
Report includes the following papers:
Report of the Director by J. W. Powell
Prehistoric Textile Art of Eastern United States by William Henry Holmes
Stone Art by Gerard Fowke
Aboriginal Remains in Verde Valley, Arizona by Cosmos Mindeleff
Omaha Dwellings, Furniture, and Implements by James Owen Dorsey
Casa Grande Ruin by Cosmos Mindeleff
Outlines of Zuñi Creation Myths by Frank Hamilton Cushing
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.
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).