Adapted for the Alberta context from the KAIROS Blanket Exercise, an interactive learning experience focusing on the historical and contemporary relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples of Canada. Themes explored are: assimilation, discrimination, Indigenous rights and reconciliation.
Mr. Gladue, aged 86, describes the discovery of Trout Lake, Alberta; the abundance of buffalo in the area; his life as atrapper. He gives a detailed and graphic account of a winter journey from Wabasca to Yellowknife and back, including his attendance at a Chipewyan funeral and feast.
Sources are divided by two areas, "Chipewyan" (Northern Saskatchewan and Manitoba, North West Territories) and British Columbia, Alberta, Yukon and Northwest Territories, grouped together. Each area is then divided into a social and cultural section and a language section. Bibliography includes citations from the Hearne Bibliography. The article is current as of 1998.
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 79, no. 2, June 1998, p. 342
Description
Book reviews of 2 books :
Proclaiming the Gospel to the Indians & the Metis by Raymond J. Huel, and
The True Spirit and Original of Treaty 7 by Treaty 7 Elders and Tribal Council with Walter Hildebrandt, Dorothy First Rider, and Sarah Carter.