Chief Poundmaker
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
A.S. Morton
Description
Black and White portrait of Chief Poundmaker.
Historical note:
Black and white photograph of students of Dunbow School showing their baking. From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
Historical note:
"Born at Sandy Lake on June 11, 1885, this grandnephew of Chief Poundmaker attended the missionary school on the Sandy Lake Reserve, and then the boarding school in Prince Albert, where he proved an able scholar and an impressive athlete. After boarding school Ahenakew returned to Sandy Lake, where he assisted his father until he was invited to teach at a missionary school on the James Smith Reserve.Historical note: