Consists of an interview about various aspects of the Pigeon Society; the role of various members; women in the society; competing for wives; the Crow Carriers Society; the Brave Society including a story of a fight against the Cree when the enemy was scared away by the dancing of the Braves; and the Scaping dance.
Consists of an interview about the acquisition of the Pigeon Society by the Blood Indians; the ceremonials of the Pigeon Society, including the transfer of bundles.
The Northern Review, no. 42, Northern Inequalities - Global Processes, Local Legacies, 2016, pp. 47-68
Description
Looks at effects on health of Inuit families caused by intergenerational trauma of settlement relocation, required attendance in residential school, and the evacuation during the tuberculosis epidemic during the 1950s and 1960s.
Journal of Indigenous Social Development, vol. 5, no. 1, 2016, pp. 1-17
Description
Describes St-Denis’ journey through phases of awakening, exploring, indigenizing, reclaiming and belonging as an integral part of completion of a Indigenous social work degree. Offers a decolonizing critique of social work, its practice and its relationship to contemporary colonizing practices.
Speaker talks about need for continued advocacy for First Nations children's right to the same level of services as other Canadian children and the human rights complaint against the Federal government.
Duration: 55:04.
Saskatchewan History, vol. 21, no. 3, Autumn, 1968, pp. [100]-111
Description
Diary of a rifleman serving in the Queens Own Rifles of Canada (QOR) during the North-West Resistance in 1885.
Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 100.
Animated film about Chanie Wenjack who died in 1966 trying to get back to Ogoki Post from Cecilia Jeffrey residential school in Kenora, Ontario. Includes post-show live panel on the road to reconciliation. Melanie Nepinak Hadley introduces panel that speaks to the video and reconciliation at large.
Video duration:46:15.
Panel discussion starts at 59:45.
Website for multimedia exhibition developed by families of two murdered women, Sonya Cywink and Patricia Carpenter, and eight Ryerson media Production students. Family members share memories of the women and what their loss means to them.
Alberta History, vol. 64, no. 4, Autumn, 2016, pp. 15-22
Description
Accounts from a member of the Canadian International Boundary Commission published in the In the Days of Pioneering: Crossing the Plains in the Early 70s.
Saskatchewan History, vol. 21, no. 1, Winter, 1968, pp. 1-23
Description
Diaries detail the experience of surveying the 49th parallel between the Souris Depot in Manitoba and Wood Mountain in what is now Saskatchewan. Describes the daily progress of the survey, wildlife sightings, topological features, interaction with Indigenous peoples of the plains, and prairie events including fires and blizzards.
Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 1.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 31, no. 1, Special Issue: Essentializing Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Spring, 2016, pp. 27-45
Description
Prominent scholar discusses her work in the field of American Indian studies and attitudes about history and politics of Indigenous nations' situation in the United States.
Welcoming remarks and keynote presentation by artistic director of the Gordon Tootoosis Nīkānīwin Theatre and a participant in the theatre's Circle of Voices program.
Duration: 1:09:19.
Winner of Coast Mental Health's 2013 Courage to Come Back Award in the category of Social Adversity speaks about his work with youth at risk and special needs children.
Duration: 21:01.