British Columbia Heritage Series. Series 1, Our Native Peoples ; vol. 3
Social Studies Bulletin
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Provincial Archives [of British Columbia]
Description
Booklet relating to the Interior Salish people of coastal BC, describing various aspects of Interior Salish culture such as daily subsistence, spirituality, shamanism, family life and legends.
Frank Halcrow, aged 59, describes: taking of Treaty 8; establishment of reserves at Lesser Slave Lake; current problems due to small size of these reserves. Also tells story of a moose hunting expedition at time of great food shortage.
Interviews with 13 residents of the Chipewyan Lake area of northern Alberta.- Stresses need for establishment of a reserve in this area, and promises made to them about this.- Describe various lifestyles including farming, trapping and fishing.- Shows how settlement patterns in remote areas have been influenced by the location of schools and stores.
Discusses taking of Treaty #6 and the promises made by the government as well as changes in diet and trade resulting from initial contact with non-Indians.
Consists of an interview where she gives an account of native use of plants for medicine. She tells of prophecies concerning the arrival of the white man and general accounts of her life in the bush.
Mr. Mustus, aged 78, is the grandson of Mustus, the first chief of the Sucker Creek Reserve. This is an unusual interview in that he displays fairly positive feelings about the treaty. Also talks of generosity of the H.B.C. storekeeper, sharing problems with white settlers, learning from them, etc. Shows little or no animosity to whitesociety.
Interview of the grandsons of Little Bear who discuss lifestyle. They tell stories about Cree raids on Blackfoot;the hanging of Little Bear and murder of a storekeeper's son by a medicine man. Interpreter by Alphonse Littlepoplar.
Mr. Belly tells four stories during the interview. He first describes the origins of his name. The following two stories are animal tales: the first is about the illegal killing of moose and the second describes how a coyote stole an axe. The last is a christian tale of a man who came to life in a coffin.
Joe Duquette, born 1904, on Mistawasis Reserve, never attended school, completely self-educated. Now Senator of F.S.I. and involved in teaching and counselling young people. He tells the story of his arranged marriage.
Consists of an interview where he describes the beliefs of the Indians concerning hunting. He also discusses the importance of respect in the traditional Indian lifestyle.
John H. Brockelbank was minister in the Dept. of Natural Resources from 1948-56 in the Saskatchewan NDP government. This interview reviews his years in office in relation to the development of the north, development of marketing agencies and cooperatives as well as his impressions of Malcolm Norris.
Interview includes a description of traditional life style and the life of settlers on the prairies. It also includes stories of theft and murder by Indians.
Mr. Phelps was the Minister of Natural Resources in the Saskatchewan CCF government from 1944 to 1948. He speaks of attempts to replace welfare in the north with programs for fish and fur marketing.
Consists of an interview with Josephine Beaucage where she gives an account of trapping in the woods as well as an account of the preparation of hides.
Examines environmental journalism strategies of demonizing, orientalizing, essentializing and exaggerating Indigenous peoples as an argumentative strategy to influence readers in the struggle against policies and proposed rule changes that supports Indigenous cultural practices.
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Symposium on Reconciliation ; Toronto, Ontario February, 2011
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Ian Binnie
Description
Honourable Justice Ian Binnie, Supreme Court of Canada, speaks at the Symposium on Reconciliation in Toronto, Ontario, February, 2011.
Duration: 5:46.
Part 1 of 5.
Looks at the historical time line of the Gitksan peoples since colonization.
Pre-publication of book chapter: Potlatch at Gisegukla: William Beyon's 1945 Fieldbooks edited by Margaret Anderson and Marjorie Halpin.
Lawrence Cook knew Jim Brady in 1949/50. He talks about the CCF government policies and how the people reacted to them, the Legion, and the various Co-op efforts that were tried in Cumberland. He is the only informant to talk about efforts by Brady to organize a Metis Association in Cumberland in 1949.
Lawrence Tobacco, born 1919, on the Poor Man Reserve, Saskatchewan He attended a residential school and is now involved in traditional education and counseling. He talks about farming and raising cattle on the Poor Man Reserve; shares a story of a trip he took to Winnipeg to sell cattle for a number of reserves in the File Hills area, and how Indian Affairs officials tried to bribe him with part of the proceeds of the sale; shares stories of defiance toward Dept.
Ethnohistory, vol. 55, no. 1, Winter, 2008, pp. 87-118
Description
Analyzes Indian Agents' responses in 1897 about administrative decisions and confrontations about fishing places, gear, licences and "closed-season" fishing by First Nations; argues Agents conserved fish for settlers and assimilated First Nation fishers into state management practices and extending so-called privileges.
She was born on the Little Pine Reserve, the first girl from that reserve to attend high school. She tells of some childhood memories; naming ceremonies; significance of Indian names; the training of children, especially girls; menarche seclusion; women: influence of, in religion and ceremonialism, pregnancy; her education: traditional; experiences in Anglican boarding school (integrated) in Saskatoon; training for roles as wife and mother.