A set of 25 photographs of Jemima Charles and Lydia McKenzie showing the making of bannock in a pan. Bannock can be made quickly and is ideal for life in the bush as it needs no long rising time in a warm place like bread does.
A set of 23 photographs of Mary Anne McKay making bannock in the cabin on the family trapline. Bannock, a baking-powder bread, has been a staple food for people living in the bush for as long as the ingredients have been available - no domestic grains are indigenous to northern Saskatchewan. It can be mixed up anywhere, even in the mouth of a flour sack. It keeps very well, does not mould easily, tastes good, and is solid and nourishing.
A set of 102 photos of Mary Eninew showing the making of birch syrup. In the spring when the sap begins to rise it is time to make birch syrup. Winter cabins are small and cramped and families often move out to a spring camp. The men and older boys would go hunting for fresh meat around the shore in a canoe, bringing back ducks, grouse, and small animals. The women and children would enjoy the freedom of being outside as they gathered birch sap and made syrup. The syrup will be a delicious treat on hot bannock!
A set of 85 photographs of Angus Tremblay making snowshoes in 1974. Travelling on the loose soft snow of the boreal forest would have been almost impossible without the development of snowshoes.
Manitoba First Nations Education Resource Centre (MFNERC)
Description
Provides guidance to those wishing to record Elders' remembrances including interview tips, and suggested questions about personal information, and home, bush, prairie, social and political, and spiritual-religious life.
Argues that expectations of white, Eurocentric, and middle class versions of mothering, combined with the state's role in producing conditions of material and social marginalization and inequality have resulted in structural risk factors for "neglect" and normalization of Aboriginal child apprehensions.
Entire book on one pdf. Scroll to p. 48.
Chapter from Bad Mothers: Regulations, Representations, and Resistance edited by Michelle Hughes Miller, Tamar Hager, and Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich.
Maori University Success: What Helps and Hinders Qualification Completion
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Reremoana Theodore
Megan Gollop
Karen Tustin
Nicola Taylor
Cynthia Kiro ... [et al.]
AlterNative, vol. 13, no. 2, June 2017, pp. 122-130
Description
Reports results from survey of 626 graduates conducted between July and December 2011 on external, institutional and personal factors impacting completion of education.
Interview includes a description of life on the reserve that describes milking, sheep-shearing and fishing weirs. It also consists of stories about a woman whose husband turned into a lizard; a story of Wisakedjak; and how Thunder Blanket killed his wife and then himself.
Mrs. Carter tells a story of her life. She talks of the traditional way of living; residential schools and tells how she was given her name. During the interview she also relates a tale from her grandfather about the Cree raiding Blackfoot camps.
[Marlyn Bennett, Director of Research and Coordinating Editor of First Peoples Child and Family Review Journal. Part I]
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Marlyn Bennett
Robert-Falcon Ouellete
Description
Interview with journal editor dedicated to interdisciplinary research honouring voices, perspectives and knowledge of First Peoples.
Duration: 33:29. Interview starts at 9:45.
[Marlyn Bennett, Director of Research and Coordinating Editor of First Peoples Child and Family Review Journal. Part II]
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Marlyn Bennett
Robert-Falcon Ouellette
Description
Interview with journal editor dedicated to interdisciplinary research honouring voices, perspectives and knowledge of First Peoples.
Duration: 33:03. Interview starts at 7:20.
Destruction of Indian culture and religion by schools and by Christian churches. Discussion of the need to return to Indian religion and Indian values. No date given, probably late 1960's.
Discussion on problems of the younger generation, including alcoholism. Also discussed ways in which parents and elders can help by instructing children and young people and by maintaining the Indian religion.