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.
Images from the fifth annual Native American Bilingual Education Conference, held at Saskatoon Centennial Auditorium. Shown is National Indian Brotherhood president Noel Starblanket, and Federation of Saskatchewan Indians president David Ahenakew, May 16, 1977.
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.
File contains eight negatives of the Prince Albert Indian and Metis Days Pow Wow, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, held on June 2, 1962. The first five negatives contain images of Pow Wow dancers in traditional dress. Negative six and seven contain images of a flag lowering ceremony at the Pow Wow. Image eight is a shot of a traditional tipi village at the Pow Wow.
File contains two negatives of the Indian Metis Rec Centre in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan (Indian Metis Friendship Centre?). The people in the two images appear to be assembled for a ceremony, likely for the grand opening. These images were taken on December 28, 1962.
Four photographs of an Inuit Art Exhibit at the Mendel Art Gallery. The first photograph is titled "striding Musk Ox." Photographs appeared in the Star Phoenix on 19 May 1977.
Collection of photographs depicting individuals from the Blackfeet Nation in Browning, Montana and some scenes from Glacier National Park (U.S.) during the early twentieth century. Images included were digitized from photographic negatives.
Department of Northern Saskatchewan (photographer)
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A set of 55 photos of Isaac Herman La Loche cutting down a birch tree and making boards that can be cut and shaped for use in making canoes, buildings, or snowshoes.
Three photographs (2 scanned here) of David Ahenakew, president of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indians, speaking at an NDP convention in Saskatoon, November 19, 1977.
File contains 2 negatives from the opening of the Prince Albert Indian and Metis Friendship Centre, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, April 12, 1962. Images show several officials in attendance at the opening ceremony of the facility.
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.
A set of 11 photographs of Calvin McKenzie setting a snare. Snaring animals, fish, and birds has been a way of securing food for thousands of years in northern Saskatchewan. Even today many people use snares to catch food when living in the bush.