A black and white photograph of Bishop J. A. Newnham distributing treats to a large group of Aboriginal children. The children sit in semi-circles on the ground outside, and are dressed in western clothing. This picture may have been taken at a residential school near Sandy Lake, Saskatchewan.
A photograph of Chief Eagle from Whitecap Indian Reserve, as he opens Young Canada Book Week in the Children's reading area, 2nd floor of the Main Branch of the Saskatoon Public Library. He wears feathered headdress and buckskin with bead work and fringes. Two Aboriginal women and four non-Aboriginal children are in the photo as well.
The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939
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Image of Betty Hunter-Stoney, and elderly Indigenous woman smoking a pipe.
From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939
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Black and white photograph of an Indigenous woman and [daughter?] on unidentified prairie, wearing wWestern clothes.
From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939
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Harry Pollard
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Photograph of Sarcee man, Big Belly sitting in a clearing with pipe.
From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939
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Author/Creator
Harry Pollard
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Black and white photograph of two Blackfoot men, Many Shots and White Headed Chief, simulating the starting of a prairie fire to protect the encampment from raiding tribes.
Unused photograph from The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
File contains 2 negatives of the Prince Albert Indian and Metis Girls Club, taken in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan on April 25, 1962. The negatives show two women engaged in conversation and reading.
File contains a negative from the Indian and Metis Club Youth Council, presumably in Prince Albert, SK. The scanned image shows what appear to be Council members at a meeting.
Note: The title of this document uses wording that was common to mainstream society of that time period in history. As such, it contains language that is no longer in common use and may offend some readers. This wording should not be construed to represent the views of the Indigenous Studies Portal or the University of Saskatchewan Library.
An image of an Aboriginal woman sitting on a horse in front of a teepee. There is a drying rack, circular corral structure and two horses grazing on the prairie in the background. Colours have been added to the image in a chromolithograph process.
An Army commander stands on a platform with an Aboriginal boy on each side of him dressed in ceremonial clothes. A large crowd is gathered in the background. They are all inside the pallisade at Fort Battleford.
Three tepees in an early Indian encampment on the prairies. . A few Red River carts are parked beside them, and an Aboriginal woman and a dog are in foreground.