File containing various news clippings and reports regarding Canada's sovereignty in the Arctic. Includes a proposal by John Diefenbaker for the establishment of an Inuit force, 500 strong, to patrol Canada's arctic. Also includes a newspaper article on the Canadian Rangers.
Documentary filmed during a community discussion of Aboriginal issues such as residential schools, lack of employment, and economic opportunism.
Duration: 14:30.
File contains 4 negatives depicting a Saskatchewan Cree woman named National Indian Princess in September 1972. Scanned image shows woman in a procession, presumably at the ceremony crowning her Princess, exact date and location unknown.
" Also, An Account of their Manners, Customs, Traditions, Religious Sentiments, Mode of Warfare, Military Tactics, Discipline and Emcampments, Treatment of Prisoners, &c. which are better Explained, and more Minutely Related, than has been heretofore done, by any other Author on that subject. Many Articles have never before appeared in printed. The whole Complied from the best Authorities."
Image of group of persons (Inuit and Caucasian) looking in canoe while standing on ice. On information card: Dr. D. Sydiaha with sledding party, transporting canoe.
Documents the activities of a Netsilik family unit hunting seal on the spring ice floes. Shows techniques of stalking, killing, skinning, butchering and preparing the hide and internal organs for use. Also depicts the division of labour between the men and women.
Duration: 33:45.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 6, no. 2, January 1967, pp. [1-13]
Description
Discussion of program which seeks to deal with problems such as broadening students western cultural knowledge to improve language usage and encouraging students to express their personal feelings verbally.
File contains 5 negatives showing two men being made honorary Chiefs of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indians (presumably in Prince Albert, SK) on November 15, 1967.