Interview includes two stories: the first about a boy who saves a boy and wins a wife in the process; a second about a boy who upon returning to his band with a wife becomes chief.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 19, no. 1, 1999, pp. 193-211
Description
Book review of:
The Iroquois in the War of 1812 by Carl Benn.
The Lakota Ritual and the Sweat Lodge: History and Contemporary Practice by Raymond Bucko.
The Legacy of Shingwaukonse: A Century of Native Leadership by Janet E. Chute.
The Social Life of Stories: Narrative and Knowledge in the Yukon Territory by Julie Cruikshank.
Looking North: Art from the University of Alaska Museum by Aldona Jonaitis (Editor).
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 2, no. 4, Winter, 1975-1976, pp. 347-361
Description
An examination of the negotiations to remove the Western Cherokee from their homeland in Arkansas through the 1828 Treaty of Washington to the area known as Lovely's Purchase. Lovely's Purchase was named after William Lovely who secured the land from the Osages for the Cherokee people to use as a hunting ground.
University of British Columbia Law Review, vol. 33, no. 1, 1999, pp. 53-74
Description
Discusses Indian Affairs Branch decision to advocate for limited exemption from overseas combat service in cases where verbal agreements had been reached concerning military participation during the course of negotiations for Treaties 3,6,8, and 11.
Understanding of treaty promises; distribution of food, ammunition, etc. in earlier times; interesting accounts of home-made agricultural equipment (aswell as that supplied by Dept. of Indian Affairs).
Native Studies Review, vol. 12, no. 2, Aboriginal Peoples and National Rights Issues in Quebec, 1999, pp. 1-4
Description
Suggests that the situation in the province, where both Quebecers and the First Nations/Inuit were declaring the right to self-determination, has parallels to other ethnic nationalisms.
Education Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Saskatchewan, 1975.
Author illustrates validity of oral history as a source for teaching about the Frog Lake incident in 1885.
Saskatchewan History, vol. 28, no. 2, Spring, 1975, pp. [41]-51
Description
Describes the incident on the Crooked Lakes Reserves in the lower Qu’Appelle valley in which several First Nations participated in a confrontation of the local Indian Agent over the Department of Indian Affairs’ food rationing policies and their enforcement.
Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 41.
Mr. Mustus, aged 78, is the grandson of Mustus, the first chief of the Sucker Creek Reserve. This is an unusual interview in that he displays fairly positive feelings about the treaty. Also talks of generosity of the H.B.C. storekeeper, sharing problems with white settlers, learning from them, etc. Shows little or no animosity to whitesociety.