Discusses consecration of Right Reverend Bishop Augustine Dontenwill at New Westminster. Gathering of 2000 Aboriginal people for consecration. Editorial describes Golden Jubilee of first Priest ordained on the Pacific Coast, Father Tayol, and death of Bishop Lemmens of Victoria at Guatemala. Pictorial Bible History; Our French Page; Monthly News in Chinook Early Church History, Chapters 27 to 29; Early Church History, Illustrated; Our Lady of Lourdes.
The use of Latin throughout history of Christianity. Editorial describes showing of Wawa and fifty Indian competitors at the Concours Stenographique in France; Movements of the Right Reverend Bishop Dontenwell in Diocese of New Westminster; Pictorial Bible History; Our French Page (discusses Queen Victoria and Pope Leon XIII); Monthly News in Chinook; Early Church History, Chapters 30 to 31; Early Church History (Illustrated); Our Lady of Lourdes, Chapters 14 to 16.
Introduction includes list of Catholic texts that have been translated into Chinook shorthand; also an exchange of the Wawa for publication in Algiers in the Luganda language; list of Catholic ceremonial dates for 1898. Editorial; Pictorial Bible History; Our French Page (Indian customs); Monthly News in Chinook; Early Church History, Chapter 32; Early Church History (Illustrated); Our Lady of Lourdes, Chapters 17 to 18; Indian Calendar for 1898.
Chinook Marseillaise; Marseillaise du whisky; music notation in detail with Chinook shorthand subscript/lyrics; Indian Calendar for Nov. to Dec. 1897; Indian Calendar 1898; Indian Temperance Regulations.
Folder containing information about the plight of the Indian in northern Manitoba, residences, and jobs and job training of indigenous and Metis peoples.
File contains 2 negatives from the opening of the Prince Albert Indian and Metis Friendship Centre, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, April 12, 1962. Images show several officials in attendance at the opening ceremony of the facility.
File contains a copy of Diefenbaker's speech at his nominating convention as the candidate for Prince Albert, in which he speaks of his governments initiatives in allowing the voices of Indigenous peoples to be heard. He refers to the appointment of Indigenous senator James Gladstone, of giving Indigenous peoples the right to vote, and of the Indian Claims Commission.
Includes American slavery, punishment of slaves in Lower Canada, legal position of Canadian slaves, kidnapping of individuals, some commentary Huron Treaty of 1764 in relation to slavery.
From Proceedings of the Canadian Institute, New Series, vol. 1, pt. 1, no. 1, 1897.
1 file containing: Notes for an election speech in Peterborough, Ontario. He mentions that his government has installed an Indigenous representative to Parliament.
An Army commander stands on a platform with an Aboriginal boy on each side of him dressed in ceremonial clothes. A large crowd is gathered in the background. They are all inside the pallisade at Fort Battleford.
File includes list of expenditures by Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources in Saskatchewan, 1957-62, including Roads to Resources; and a 19 December 1962 letter from the Hon. R.A. Bell, Minister of Citizenship & Immigration, enclosing memo from Neil McLeod regarding the activities of Chief Joseph Dreaver, who had travelled to various SK reserves to gather the views of Indigenous peoples concerning possible changes to the Indian Act.
Report includes the following papers:
Report of the Director by J. W. Powell
Primitive Trephining in Peru by Manuel Antonio Muñiz, M.D. and W. J. McGee
The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona by Cosmos Mindeleff
Day Symbols of the Maya Year by Cyrus Thomas
Tusayan Snake Ceremonies by Jesse Walter Fewkes