Aboriginal Portraits from the National Archives of Canada
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National Archives of Canada
Description
Folder contains three pages of text and portraits.
Historical note:
Letter written to his mother on November 15, 1885, the day before his execution.
Historical note:
Comments on four letters containing new information regarding a group of five Inuit who travelled to England from Labrador in the 18th century. The four letters discussed are included.
Excerpt from The Great Lone Land, originally published in 1873.
Historical note:
"Born at Sandy Lake on June 11, 1885, this grandnephew of Chief Poundmaker attended the missionary school on the Sandy Lake Reserve, and then the boarding school in Prince Albert, where he proved an able scholar and an impressive athlete. After boarding school Ahenakew returned to Sandy Lake, where he assisted his father until he was invited to teach at a missionary school on the James Smith Reserve.Historical note: