Book review: Tlingit Indians of Alaska by Archimandrite Anatolii Kamenskii. Translated, with an Introduction and supplementary material, by Sergei Kan.
Excerpt from: Tradition and Education: Towards a Vision of Our Future by the National Indian Brotherhood and Assembly of First Nations. Produced as part of the National Review of First Nations Education.
Summarizes the findings of the National Review of First Nations Education conducted by the National Indian Brotherhood and the Assembly of First Nations.
Discusses the historical development and fact that these Treaties with the Mississauga and Chippewa peoples did not secure hunting and fishing rights for the First Nations people. Both Canada and Ontario were involved in negotiations.
Discusses historical background, terms, conditions and implications of Treaty 7; concluded during the Klondike gold rush of 1897-98 for economic reasons when settlers were coming into Lake Athabasca, Great Slave Lake, and parts of the Peace River area.
Provides historical context of Treaty-making and argues that acceptance of the Treaty 5 locked both parities into a permanent relationship and set the context for subsequent actions.
Argues that treaty was concluded after provincial borders were created. Report includes instructions to Crown negotiators, historical context and a section on Métis claims.
Treaty Research Report: Treaty No. Nine (1905-1906)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
James Morrison
Description
Argues that treaty represents the end of a colonial policy, which went back to the British Indian Department era. Adhesions to Treaty No. 9, often referred to as the James Bay Treaty, occurred between 1907-1930.
Provides historical context and negotiation overview. Argues that Treaty 3 became the definitive Treaty and that all the subsequent "numbered treaties" in Canada were patterned after it.
Saskatchewan History, vol. 39, no. 1, Winter, 1986, pp. 21-31
Description
Originally published in The Press, Battleford Feb. 17, 1916. Details the trip made by the author and J.D. Noel from Battleford to Île-à-la-Crosse; includes information about the modes and conditions of travel, people they met along the way, and the author’s impressions of the village.
Entire issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 21.
Examines the criticisms of theories advanced in his 1963 book Early Voyages and Northern Approaches, originally published in 1963; includes some illustrations.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 12, no. 3, 1988, pp. 33-48
Description
Reviews the history of the Turtle Mountain reserve and how the author portrays it's unique Native American development in fictional pieces based on the facts of the Chippewa Indians.
Aboriginal History, vol. 12, no. 1, 1988, pp. 103-112
Description
Review article of seven books:
Aboriginal Australians and Christian Missions: Ethnographic and Historical Studies edited by Tony Swain and Deborah Bird Rose.
Christianity and Aboriginal Australia by John Harris.
I'd Rather Dig Potatoes: Clamor Schurmann and the Aborigines of South Australia, 1838-1853by Edwin A. Schurmann.
Black Robinson: Protector of Aborigines by Vivienne Rae-Ellis.
Thomas Dove and the Tasmanian Aborigines by R. S. Miller.
Dark Deeds in a Sunny Land or Blacks and Whites in North-West Australia by J. B.
File contains 2 negatives of an unidentified man (possibly a Chief) recieving a plaque from an undintified official at the official opening of the District Chief's Office in Prince Albert, SK, in March, 1988.