File contains 17 negatives from the Indian and Metis Days Parade, Prince Albert, SK, June 20, 1970. All 17 images depict people in traditional dress on automobiles in a parade procession, presumably in downtown Prince Albert.
File contains 2 negatives from the Official opening of the Prince Albert Indian and Metis Friendship Centre, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, June 19, 1970. Images show four officials (including one in traditional headress) cutting the ribbon to officially open the Centre.
The picture shows some Aboriginal men sitting at school desks in the foreground, with a crowded group of mainly Aboriginal people at the back of the room. The political dignitaries are not visible.
File contains 10 negatives from the Indian Metis Days Pow Wow and Sports Events held in Prince Albert, SK on June 21, 1970. All images show Pow Wow dancers in traditional dress.
[Haida] ceremony being performed for Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Connaught. Performer in middle, drummers on left and right; crowd in background.
Consists of an interview with George First Rider where he describes the ceremonies associated with a Holy Lodge. Note: Dave Melting Tallow, interpreter. Joanne Greenwood, transcriber.
There are 28 photographs of the Louis Riel Race in Saskatoon. Pictures of people running, canoeing and doing various other activities in July, 1970. fifteen of these pictures were selected and scanned for the database.
Lucy Margaret Baker: A Biographical Sketch of the First Missionary of Our Canadian Presbyterian Church to the North-West Indians
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Lucy Margaret Baker
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This file contains an original copy of Lucy Margaret Baker: A Memoir, compiled by Elizabeth A. Byers and published by Women's Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, 1920. It discusses her work with the Cree near Prince Albert, Sask. (Mistawasis Reserve), her teaching at Nisbet Academy, her work during North-West Rebellion, and her efforts to help an "outcast band of Sioux."
Note: The title of this document uses wording that was common to mainstream society of that time period in history. As such, it contains language that is no longer in common use and may offend some readers. This wording should not be construed to represent the views of the Indigenous Studies Portal or the University of Saskatchewan Library.
An image of three Aboriginal women and a baby, all wrapped in individual blankets and in front of a teepee. Colours have been added to the photograph in a chromolithograph process. The postcard was addressed to Miss Maggie J. Mitchell, Nova Scotia.
Includes links which highlight individuals in various artistic fields: photography, basketry, picture stories, resources, and museums as well as narratives, stories and legends.
Handwritten annotation on back of postcard: "Named Waum Gana'o 14'[high] / erected 1845 / 4 Bottom figure, is of the big hog, upside down." Waum Gana'o is indicated as the big hog by an arrow. Title from bottom of postcard. Skeena River, BC.
On information card: (L-R) Leo Satoksky - left (clerk) DNA, Luke Essaluk - center (clerk) DNA, Ches. Russell - right (hotel) at Hudson's Bay Co. store". Rankin Inlet, N.W.T.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 21, no. 3, 1997, pp. 145-162
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Descriptions of basketry in the novel Ramona and discussion of the literary accounts, basketry collections, and ethnographic experiences of the author, Helen Hunt Jackson, which may have inspired some passages.
Consists of an interview with George First Rider where he tells the story of a medicine man named Bear Hat (later renamed Curlew). He tells how Bear Hat was revived after serious injury and how Bear Hat healed a young man wounded in a battle.
Consists of an interview with George First Rider where he tells the story of a boy given supernatural powers by the bears and of his subsequent success as a healer of his own wounds and those of other people or animals.
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 31, no. 4, Winter, 1997, p. 144
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1995 Margaret Laurence lecture at Trent University by the artist and quilt maker Alice Olsen Williams. The version given here has been adapted, revised and edited.
File contains a negative from a ceremony held in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan by the Urban Indian Association to honour graduates on May 2, 1970. Image shows men receiving diplomas on stage.