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1905 Boundaries
After the Spirit Sang: Aboriginal Canadian and Museum Policy in the New Millennium
Alexis First Nation, TransAlta Utilities - Right of Way, Public Edition
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Document contains statements of claim, correspondence/letters, maps and transcripts in regards to Calgary Power's (now TransAlta) access to electrical transmission right of way granted in the 1950s and 1960s. The Commissioners include: Roger J. Augustine, Daniel J. Bellegarde, Sheila G. Purdy.
Athabasca Denesuline Inquiry - Aboriginal and Treaty Harvesting Rights: Public Release - July 2008
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Document contains correspondence/letters, submissions, and oral transcripts in regards to the claim for formal recognition of treaty harvesting rights north of the 60th parallel. Commissioners include: Harry S. LaForme, Daniel J. Bellegarde, and P.E. James Prentice.
Betsiamites Band Council, Route 138 and the Betsiamites Reserve, Public Edition, July 2008
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Consists of bilingual annotated index, historical documents, maps, correspondence/letters, Band Council documents and final reports relating to the Band's claims alleging that reserve lands taken for highway use were never surrendered to Canada and/or transferred to the Province of Quebec. Commissioners include: Sheila G. Purdy and Alan C. Holman. [These files were created and compiled by the ICC and provided to the Indigenous Studies Portal in 2009 to make widely available in online format.]
Bigstone Cree First Nation, TLE Claim Inquiry, Public Edition, July 2008
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Document contains interviews, presentations, statements, reports, correspondence/letters and documents regarding the Treaty Land Entitlement process for the Alberta First Nation. Commissioners include: Daniel J. Bellegarde, P.E. James Prentice, and Carole T. Corcoran.
Blood Tribe/Kainaiwa Inquiry: Akers Surrender 1889 Claim, July 2008
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Document contains letters/memos, submissions, band council documents, and reports in regards to the dispute over the federal government taking over 440 acres of mineral-rich reserve land without full consent or compensation.
Canupawakpa Dakota First Nation Turtle Mountain Surrender Claim - Public Edition, July 2008
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Contains historical documents, memos, reports, correspondence/letters, maps and submissions regarding validity of the 1909 surrender claim. Commissioners include: Roger J. Austine, Daniel J. Bellegarde, and Sheila G. Purdy. [These files were created and compiled by the ICC and provided to the Indigenous Studies Portal in 2009 to make widely available in online format.]
Carry The Kettle - 1905 Surrender - Public Edition, July 2008
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Contains historical documents, reports, legal submissions, correspondence/letters, transcripts, and maps regarding the specific land claim, concerning the surrender of reserve land, by Carry the Kettle First Nation. Commissioners include : Sheila Purdy, Alan Holman, and Jane Dickson-Gilmore. [These files were created and compiled by the ICC and provided to the Indigenous Studies Portal in 2009 to make widely available in online format.]
Challenges Facing 21st Century Indigenous People
The Changing Relationship Between First Nations Peoples and Museums
Chapter IX -- "About the Indian"
Chapter V -- "The Buffalo"
Chapter X -- "What Mr. Commissioner Graham Says of the Indian"
Chapter XI -- "Sargent-Major Spicer on the Indian"
Historical note:
Sergeant-Major Frank Wyman Spicer, born in New York State, was a member of the NWMP and, subsequently, an ordained Methodist Minister.Chapter XII -- "Graphic Descriptions of the 'Medicine Lodge'; or 'The Place of Sacred Feasting' -- The Great Blackfoot Ceremony"
Chapter XIII -- "In the Beginning: A Legend of the Blackfeet"
Chapter XIV -- "The Cypress Hills Slaughter"
Chapter XV -- "The Tragedy of 'Almighty Voice'"
Chapter XVI -- "An Indian Murder Case"
Chapter XVII -- "The Hudson's Bay Company"
Chapter XX -- "The Rebellion of 1885"
Chapter XXI -- "Rebellion"
Chapter XXII -- "The Battleford Column"
Chapter XXIII -- "Prince Albert And The Rebellion"
Chapter XXIV -- "Mr. Thomas McKay Tried For His Life"
Chapter XXV -- "Duck Lake"
Chapter XXVI -- "How Big Tom Hourie Swam the Saskatchewan In Running Ice with Dispatches"
Chapter XXVII -- "How Tom Hourie Captured Riel"
Chapter XXVIX -- "The Quaint Indictment -- Seduced by the Devil"
Chapter XXX -- "Louis Riel's End"
Chapter XXXI -- "Louis Riel After Death"
Chapter XXXII -- "Jack Henderson"
Chapter XXXIII -- "A Local Account of the Duck Lake Fight"
Chinook Rudiments, No. 1739
Chippewas of Kettle & Stoney Point First Nation Inquiry, 1927 Surrender Claim, Public Edition, July 2008
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Contains historical documents, transcripts, correspondence/letters, reports, exhibits, minutes, and submissions regarding the surrender of some of the reserve lands in 1927, 100 years after the treaty was signed. Commissioners include: Roger J. Augstine and Daniel J. Bellegarde.
Cultural Regions
Cumberland House Cree Nation, Cumberland Reserve 100A Claim, Public Edition, July 2008
USE FIREFOX FOR BEST VIEWING AND FUNCTIONALITY OF THIS RECORD. Consists of historical documents, submissions, correspondence/letters, transcripts, treaties, legal documents and the Final Report in English and French. [These files were created and compiled by the ICC and provided to the Indigenous Studies Portal in 2009 to make widely available in online format.]
Dugout Canoe Photographs
Duncan's First Nation Wrongful Surrender Claim, Public Edition, September 2008
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Contents consist of historical documents, maps, reports, legal documents, transcripts, correspondence/letters, submissions and the Inquiry Report in English and French versions. [These files were created and compiled by the ICC and provided to the Indigenous Studies Portal in 2009 to make widely available in online format.]
The Enigma of Louis David Riel
The Face Pullers: Ch.3 Images - Group Indians Who Ploughed Land for R.C.S. (Roman Catholic School)
Black and white photograph of a group of Indigenous men who ploughed land for Roman Catholic School. From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
The Face Pullers: Ch.4 Images - Chief Ben Pasqua
The Face Pullers: Ch.4 Images - Jim Rabbit
The Face Pullers: Ch.4 Images - Piegan Women
The Face Pullers: Ch. 4 Images - Pigeon Society
The Face Pullers: Ch. 4 images - Teepee Float, Macleod Jubilee Parade
Photograph of a tepee float at the Macleod Jubilee Parade. From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.