Residents gathering for a hearing of the Carrothers Commission at Rae, N.W.T. which was studying the future directions of government in the Northwest Territories.
Indian women and children seated in shade of impromptu shelter of teepee poles draped with cloth or leather on side of an ox-cart. Inscribed - in the lee of a Red River cart. One woman holds infant bundled in papoose-fashion. She may be same woman shown in photo LH 246. Probably taken near Saskatoon.