The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939
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Black and white photograph of a football team of young indigenous men and their non-indigenous coaches. Subtitled "High River Industrial School Football Team: Champions of the Association Football Tournament, Calgary, May 24, 1898.
Unused photograph from the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
Western Historical Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 4, Winter, 2004, pp. 429-450
Description
Argues that Native Americans experimented with their identities and dramatized their resistance to white society and culture during the Haskell Institute homecoming of 1926.