File contains 6 images from a Confirmation ceremony for students at the Prince Albert Indian Student Residence. Scanned image shows sixty nine students posed with clergy (presumably Anglican or Roman Catholic) in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan on April 20, 1969.
Consists of an interview with George First Rider where he talks about his childhood and lack of schooling, his development of horsemanship, his membership in holy societies and his alcoholism.
"National publication for the Indians of Canada." Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Previously published as Indian Missionary Record.
Articles reflect the attitudes and policies of the time.
In Education, vol. 22, no. 1, Indigenous Education, Spring, 2016, pp. 110-126
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Study finds that cultural legends and stories familiar to historical, ceremonial and spiritual practices are vital to the cultural foundation of the Haudenosaunee.
Gives some context behind the rise of Pan-Indianism in part due to the divide between urban and reservation American Indians struggling between spiritual and communal connection and learned white individualistic industrial activity.
Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature & Culture, vol. 10, no. 2, 2016, pp. 189-207
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Comments on the theme of boarding-schools, and the films The Only Good Indian directed by Kevin Wilmott, and The Education of Little Tree directed by Friedenberg and Older Than America directed by Lightning.