Cree family and Red River Cart
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Author/Creator
Louis Cochin (photographer)
Description
Image of family posing beside tent and Red River Cart in western dress.
Historical note:
Black and white photograph of Wanda Gilmour, an Indigenous girl adopted and educated by reverend Neil Gilmour. From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
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: