Interview includes stories about a ghost priest and a non-existent camp. Also included is a story of how a lame boy's skill as a medicine man won him a chieftainship and a wife.
Interview includes a biographical account of Antoine Lonesinger's life that includes stories about farming, trapping, house construction and the making of charcoal and lime. He also tells of the murder of an Indian Agent at the hands of a Blackfoot named Owl Eyes.
Interview with Mr Lonesinger who tells stories of Indian agents both good and bad. He also tells of the Battle of the Cut Knife Hill and the banning of the Sundance.
Interview relates to understanding of Treaty #8 promises; the establishment of Wabasca Reserves; and the loss of treaty status by many people in the area.
A discussion of Land rights under Treaty #7; trade of furs for goods; and the dispersal of the Blackfoot people and eventual return to the Blackfoot Reserve under Crowfoot.
Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 23, no. 4, Special Issue: Exploring the Governance Landscape of Indigenous Peoples and Water in Canada, Spring, 2013, pp. 1-14
Description
Comments on the unaddressed water issues that persist despite funding initiatives and public awareness.
Interviewee recounts stories told to him by his father about the signing of Treaty #8;denial of Indian requests for reserve; and traditional lifestyle.
Interview of Charlie Chief who discusses the a Grass Dance, Round Dance and Sioux Dance (including songs). Also included are songs. The discusses the difference between old and new ways. Alphonse Littlepoplar is the intterpreter
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 4, Fall, 2013, pp. 237-251
Description
Looks at several treaties and acts which all contributed to loss of land belonging to the Sioux: Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851; Homestead Act of 1862; Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868; Act of 1877; Allotment Act of 1886; Act of 1889 and Wheeler-Howard Act; Pick-Sloan Flood Control Act of 1944; Indian Land Consolidation Act.
An interview which discusses the negotiation of Treaty 8 at Fort Chipewyan, and promises made ; problems of insufficient land for trapping on Chipewyan Reserve ; and alcohol abuse among native people.
Frank Cardinal (aged 68), chief of the Sucker Creek Reserve, discusses Treaty #8 and its interpretation, the establishment of the reserves around Lesser Slave Lake, and problems facing a chief in modern times.
This speech, given by L.I. Barber, Indian Claims Commissioner for Canada, at a Royal Society of Canada symposium on Amerindians, outlines the history of land claims in Canada and the negotiations occurring to settle the backlog of grievances relating to land claims. He also notes that Eskimo / Inuit concerns are only being recognized as a genuine concern in the early 1970s.
Jim Shot Both Sides, Head Chief of the Blood Reserve, Alberta tells his father's account of the signing of the Treaty #7and the promises made at that time.
A transcript of an interview with Chief Thomas Settee of Cumberland House, SK. Settee discusses everything from employment and culture to religion and politics.
Interviews with 13 residents of the Chipewyan Lake area of northern Alberta.- Stresses need for establishment of a reserve in this area, and promises made to them about this.- Describe various lifestyles including farming, trapping and fishing.- Shows how settlement patterns in remote areas have been influenced by the location of schools and stores.
An interview discussing various topics: evidence given to the Office of Specific Claims and Research by Jim Black; signing of Treaty #7; an account of the CPR line being taken through Blackfoot Reserveterritory; a description of two murders: Frank Skynner killed by Scrapings, and Charcoal's murder of Medicine Pipe Stem; the surrender of Blackfoot Reserve land; and an understanding of land rights.
An interview which discusses the signing of Treaty 8: understanding of promises made, the establishment of Wood Buffalo Natural Park, and the need for a reserve at Fort Chipewyan for trapping and hunting.
Interview includes a description of life on the reserve that describes milking, sheep-shearing and fishing weirs. It also consists of stories about a woman whose husband turned into a lizard; a story of Wisakedjak; and how Thunder Blanket killed his wife and then himself.
This 75 year old man describes changes brought about by Treaty #8; promises of reserve at Prairie Lake; and confusion over treaty status of many northern people.
An overall summary of Treaty #6, the hows and whys of the difference in interpretation between Indian and non-Indian, based on field interviews and historical documents.
Bennett, B., "Passes for Indians to Leave Reserves"
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
B. Bennett
Description
Cites many letters between government officials, NWMP officers and Canadian Army officers regarding passes and concludes these passes certainly existed. Passes came into existence after the 1885 resistance. Evidence of their use was only found in Treaty 4, 6 and 7 territories, and it cannot be certain they were used in every agency. Author states evidence indicates passes were used as late as the 1930s, but no sources are given.
Sixty-three elders' interviews from the Treaty 8 area were reviewed for references to land, and of these, all but fourteen contain some sort of statement about land.
A total of 136 elders' interviews were read for reference to treaty mineral rights. Of these, 58 were either not concerned with an Indian understanding of treaty or did not deal specifically with minerals.
Author uses various anthropological and historical sources to throw some light on the way in which the Indians of the Treaty 6 and 7 regions might have interpreted the treaty promises.
This paper, based on his many field interviews, represents Mr. Rain's views on why the Indians in the Treaty 6 area wereanxious to sign treaty, the problems of language, and therefore of their understanding of the terms.