A Parks Canada file containing a pamphlet and two history reports. The pamphlet (scanned), entitled "Cypress Hills Massacre National Historic Site" tells the story of the Cypress Hills Massacre and includes a map of the site. Manuscript Report Number 252 Fort Battleford: A Structural History Volume II: Photographs, Diagrams, Maps by Walter Hidebrandt and Manuscript Report Number 164 Lanark Place, Abernethy, Saskatchewan Structural History by William Naftel, Personnel and Garrisons at Coteau-du-Lac by Karen Price, and The Human Osteology of the Fort Coteau-du-Lac Site by J.
Discusses Malcolm Norris and his political views, his involvement with the Neestow Project, his visions for the future, his family, his frustrations and short-comings.
Don Nielson was one of the original organizers of the Metis Association of Saskatchewan in 1964. He talks about the differences between Metis groups in the north and south and Norris's fight against government funding.
One of the original organizers of the Metis Association of Saskatchewan in 1964 discusses problems within native organizations between north and south, status and non-status, Liberal and CCF.
Saskatchewan History, vol. 23, no. 3, Autumn, 1970, pp. [105]-116
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Describes North-West Territories Lieutenant-Governor's opinions and influence in the trials of participants in the North-West Resistance, the restoration of the Canadian government’s authority in the Territories, and the relationship between the state and Indigenous peoples.
Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 105.
File contains 17 negatives from the Indian and Metis Days Parade, Prince Albert, SK, June 20, 1970. All 17 images depict people in traditional dress on automobiles in a parade procession, presumably in downtown Prince Albert.
File contains 2 negatives from the Official opening of the Prince Albert Indian and Metis Friendship Centre, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, June 19, 1970. Images show four officials (including one in traditional headress) cutting the ribbon to officially open the Centre.
A registered nurse talks about her friendship with Malcolm Norris and the development of Friendship Centres in Prince Albert and Winnipeg and school integration in La Ronge.
Joe Amyotte was president of the southern Saskatchewan Metis organization from 1966 and president of the combined southern and northern group until 1970 when he was defeated by Howard Adams. He was responsible for the development of educational upgrading and housing programs for the Metis.
Keith Wright was employed in the penitentiary service and was also the president of the board of directors of the Prince Albert Indian/Metis Friendship Centre.
Louis Garneau was a cousin of Jim Brady and spent much of his youth with Jim. He speaks of working in the north during the 20s and 30s and of his recollections of Jim's family and political interests.
Norman Brudy is a member of the Communist party and was provincial party organizer for Saskatchewan in the early 1960s when both Brady and Norris were party members. Brudy gives his impressions of Norris and Brady as political leaders and Marxists and discusses their application of Marxism to the native question.
Publication of the Manitoba Metis Lands Commission, with articles on English / French explorers and fur traders, the Pemmican War, the Battle of Seven Oaks, the Manitoba Lands Act, and a questionnaire relating to the study of Metish Lands Claims.
Mr. Isadore, aged 72, a former councillor on Drift Pile River Reserve, recounts a history of Drift Pile River Reserve, and of other reserves around Lesser Slave Lake.
He gives an account of the 1862 Minnesota Massacre and, in its aftermath, the movement of a group of Sioux (Dakota) to Prince Albert, Saskatchewan under the leadership of Tarasota (?). He also gives an account of the 1885 Riel Rebellion and its effect on the Sioux (Dakota) living in the Prince Albert, Saskatchewan district.
Rod Bishop was raised in Green Lake, Saskatchewan Upon returning to Saskatchewan in the early 1960s, he became involved in the reorganization of the Metis Association of Saskatchewan and was vice president of the amalgamated Metis Society.
Consists of an interview with three of Jim Brady's sisters. They talk about early life in St. Paul des Metis in the 1920s and 1930s, the politics and lifestyle of their father, Jim Brady, Sr., as well as discussing Brady's maternal grandfather, Laurent Garneau.
Walter Deiter, former president of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indians and first president of the National Indian Brotherhood, talks about the importance of Malcolm Norris in Metis politics and the splitting of the National Indian Council into the National Indian Brotherhood and the Metis Association of Canada.