American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 20, no. 3, Special Issue on The Shadow Catcher: The Uses of Native American Photography, 1996, pp. 15-32
Description
Argues that the founder of California Indian Studies was also an important ethnographic photographer.
Allen Ahenakew, Interpreter, and E.R. Conn, Federal Supervisor of Indian Affairs, at microphones at the Trappers Convention in Prince Albert, SK, 1961.
Website links to natural resources, history and culture, social equity, environmental justice and GIS mapping. Includes case studies comparing the environmental, social and cultural impact of natural resource development.
Curator: The Museum Journal , vol. 39, no. 2, 1996, pp. 108-122
Description
Discusses the tribe's past resistance to having spiritual ceremonies photographed and their current efforts to restrict access to sensitive material held in museum collections.
The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939
Images » Photographs
Description
Black and white photograph of a group of Blackfeet at the Calgary Stampede as spectators. They wear European styled clothing.
From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
A brief overview of the history of Fort Battleford created for Fort Battleford National Historic Park in 1961. Produced by the Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources: National Historic Sites Division. The booklet covers the Forts origins as a police post, the events of the 1885 uprising, and the decline of the fort as well as the establishment of a park.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 20, no. 3, Special Issue on The Shadow Catcher: The Uses of Native American Photography, 1996, pp. 111-128
Description
Looks at the Western image of the Native American as determined by photographs.
File contains 4 negatives of performers on stage at the Indian Metis [illegible] Concert on November 24, 1961. The first negative shows a young boy on stage performing a dance. The second shows a man playing the accordion. The third shows a large group of women singing with alongside a piano playing accompaniest. The fourth shows a man with a guitar accompanying a woman singing. The fifth shows a man either singing or announcing at a microphone.
Scanned negative shows female students in uniform with an instructor on Visiting Day held on March 8, 1961 at the Prince Albert Indian School (presumably All Saints Residential School).
John Diefenbaker speaking to reporters as aboriginal children look on. Taken during his trip to open the town of Inuvik, North West Territories, 21 July 1961. An RCMP officer is partially visible behind Diefenbaker.
Female elder seated indoors next to window. Annotation on back of photo: 61-321-33: Jossette Morris, 75 year old Chipewyan Indian, who lives at Patuanak, works on birch bark baskets. Lacing is made from dyed birch roots.
The scanned image shows a shot of someone dressed as Santa Claus with a group of children and a school official at the Kinsmen Christmas Party at the Indian School (All Saints?) in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan taken on December 17, 1961.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 20, no. 3, Special Issue on The Shadow Catcher: The Uses of Native American Photography, 1996, pp. 51-64
Description
Examines some photographers' motivations for doing photographs and the reactions of those being photographed, and argues that Natives Americans wish to preserve and interpret their own histories with photographs that illustrate all facets of their lives.
On information card: "Mrs. Andela Solomon, Patuanak, 75 year old Chipewyan Indian, working on a birch bark basket, an art she learned from her mother. Also makes moccasins decorated with porcupine quills, almost a lost art amongst the Indians."
From caption: "Mrs. Angela Solomon, Patuanak, 75 year old Chipewyan Indian, works on birch bark baskets. Art was learned from her mother. Also makes moccasins decorated with porcupine quills, almost a lost art amongst the Indians. July, 1961"
Olive Diefenbaker, wife of the Prime Minister, receives a bouquet from a happy Aboriginal child at Whitehorse in 1961. An Aboriginal woman watches and a Red Ensign is visible behind them.
Olive Diefenbaker, wife of the Prime Minister, visits with residents of Inuvik, NWT at the official opening of the Arctic community, in 1961. She walks with an Aboriginal woman, a large crowd is in the background.