Note: The original title of this document uses wording that was common to mainstream society of that time period in history. As such, it contains language that is no longer in common use and may offend some readers. This wording should not be construed to represent the views of the Indigenous Studies Portal or the University of Saskatchewan Library.
Title from information card. Unidentified Aboriginal woman holding a young child; float plane being unloaded in background.
A group of young Aboriginal men assembled around vintage auto, with dog. Inscription on negative: Boys of the Indian Reserve, Saskatoon, likely referring to White Cap Reserve near Dundurn. Moose Woods is name of band. On the back of the photo it says one of them is Charles Eagle.
AIATSIS National Indigenous Studies Conference ; 2009
Information Technologies and Indigenous Communities Symosium ; 2010
E-Books
Author/Creator
Laurel Evelyn Dyson
Fiona Brady
Daniel Featherstone
Inge Kral
Cat Kutay ... [et al.]
Description
Developed from papers presented at the 2009 AIATSIS National Indigenous Studies Conference and the 2010 Symposium, Information Technologies and Indigenous Communities.
A photograph of a teepee structure set up as a fish drying rack. There is a covering on the back half of the teepee and a group of people seated inside. On the back of the photo is written: Salt River in the Northwest.
Photograph of children playing, with tents in background; taken at Eskimo Point, N.W.T. [NU]. (community's name changed to Arviat in 1989). Title on file: Eskimo Children at Play.
Children exiting tent located beside drying hides; photograph taken in Eskimo Point, N.W.T. [NU]. (community's name changed to Arviat in 1989). Title on file: Eskimo Children, Drying Caribou Hide.
Photograph of child with buildings in background taken at Lake Harbour, N.W.T. [NU], currently known as Kimmirut, NU. Title on file: Eskimo Child with Sled.
Image of McKenzie (up close and facing camera) paddling canoe. Description reads: "Jeremiah McKenzie one of our canoemen leaving Lac La Ronge. Trip of Christina Bateman and Annie McKay to La Ronge.
Yellowed snapshot of John Diefenbaker wearing a fringed buckskin jacket and talking to an unidentified bearded man wearing a short sleeved T-shirt [ca. 1962]. A group of Aboriginal Canadians look on from the background. Photo taken during a fishing trip perhaps.
John McKay still tends to his family's trap-line at age seventy-six. Page one: picture of John McKay (at time of interview) Page two: picture of John and Mary Anne with their son Richard displaying furs (1950s). A picture of John's parents, Catherine and Roderick McKay.
Image of Morin paddling in canoe (close-up facing camera) wearing overalls. Description reads: "John Morin one of our canoemen leaving Lac La Ronge. Trip of Christina Bateman and Annie McKay to La Ronge."
A photograph of dietician and helpers at work in the kitchen of the Indian Industrial School in Regina, Saskatchewan. Four women in the picture stand near a large cook stove. Two appear Aboriginal and two appear to be non- Aboriginal.
Note: The title of this document uses wording that was common to mainstream society of that time period in history. As such, it contains language that is no longer in common use and may offend some readers. This wording should not be construed to represent the views of the Indigenous Studies Portal or the University of Saskatchewan Library.
An image of an Aboriginal woman sitting on a horse in front of a teepee. There is a drying rack, circular corral structure and two horses grazing on the prairie in the background. Colours have been added to the image in a chromolithograph process.
A photograph of a large gathering of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people on a hillside in Onion Lake North West Territories circa 1890. Maybe a Dominion Day celebration or perhaps Treaty day.
Christina Bateman and Annie McKay leaving their first camp at Willie Bear's farm in the Sturgeon Valley (Sturgeon Lake) during their journey from Prince Albert to La Ronge, 1919.
File contains the historical booklet, "I Wasn't Put on this Earth for Nothin': Stories from La Loche, Saskatchewan. It was a "Celebrate Saskatchewan, 1905-1980" brochure, compiled by Ray Marnoch.
Photograph. On information card: Ten year old log cabin with extended tent porch in Chipewyan trappers camp. Dunvegan Lake Camp, Mackenzie District, N.W.T.
A set of 25 photographs of Jemima Charles and Lydia McKenzie showing the making of bannock in a pan. Bannock can be made quickly and is ideal for life in the bush as it needs no long rising time in a warm place like bread does.
A set of 23 photographs of Mary Anne McKay making bannock in the cabin on the family trapline. Bannock, a baking-powder bread, has been a staple food for people living in the bush for as long as the ingredients have been available - no domestic grains are indigenous to northern Saskatchewan. It can be mixed up anywhere, even in the mouth of a flour sack. It keeps very well, does not mould easily, tastes good, and is solid and nourishing.
A set of 102 photos of Mary Eninew showing the making of birch syrup. In the spring when the sap begins to rise it is time to make birch syrup. Winter cabins are small and cramped and families often move out to a spring camp. The men and older boys would go hunting for fresh meat around the shore in a canoe, bringing back ducks, grouse, and small animals. The women and children would enjoy the freedom of being outside as they gathered birch sap and made syrup. The syrup will be a delicious treat on hot bannock!
A set of 85 photographs of Angus Tremblay making snowshoes in 1974. Travelling on the loose soft snow of the boreal forest would have been almost impossible without the development of snowshoes.