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An Act Respecting Indians [1886]
Annette, The Métis Spy: A Heroine of the N.W. Rebellion
Are the Eastern Industrial Training Schools for Indian Children a Failure?
Pamphlet produced in response to debates in Congress on the Indian Appropriation Bill. Includes various letters, articles, statistics, extract from Congressional Record, and The Indian School at Carlisle Barracks, published by U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Education in 1880.
Biologist's Quest
Blackfeet at Earnscliffe
Brief Outlines of the Most Famous Journeys in and about Rupert's Land
Excerpt from the Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada ; sec. 2, 1886.
Cairns of British Columbia and Washington
Chippewa Exercises: Being a Practical Introduction into the Study of the Chippewa Language
Course of Study for the Indian Schools of the United States: Industrial and Literary
Detailed Report upon All Claims to Land and Right to Participate in the North-West Half-Breed Grant by Settlers along the South Saskatchewan ... Settlements Commonly Known as St. Louis de Langevin, St. Laurent or Batoche and Duck Lake
Duncan Campbell Scott - Sketch. - [1901 or 1902].
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Duncan Campbell Scott (b. 2 August 1862-19 December 1947) was a Canadian poet and prose writer. Charles G.D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, Archibald Lampman and Scott are known as the "Confederation poets". Scott was also deputy superintendent of the Department of Indian Affairs, a position he held from 1913 to 1932.Elderly Indian Man sitting on a chair, Prince Albert, NWT.
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Episodes in the Culture-Hero Myth of the Sauks and Foxes
Epitome of Parliamentary Documents in Connection with North-West Rebellion, 1885
Includes some discussion of Riel's trial and sentencing.
Ethnological Notes on the Astronomical Customs and Religious Ideas of the Chokitapia or Blackfeet Indians, Canada
The Execution of Louis Riel: Speech of the Hon. John S. D. Thompson, Minister of Justice
Speech made in the House of Commons.
The Face Pullers: Ch.1 images - Blackfoot Chiefs en Route to Ottawa
The Face Pullers: Ch.1 images - "Indian Sun Dance, Making a Brave"
The Face Pullers: Ch. 1 Images - Participants at Sun Dance
Black and white photograph of two young Indigenous men on horseback. From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
The Face Pullers: Ch. 2 Images - Portrait of Isapo-Muxika
The Face Pullers: Ch. 2 Images - Portrait of Piapot
Portrait of Cree Chief Piapot holding a rifle and wearing hat and scarf. Historical note:(Piapot (c.1816 - 1908) Chief of First Nations people in southern Saskatchewan in the late 1800s. From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
The Facts Respecting Indian Administration in the North-West
The Father of St. Kilda: Twenty Years in Isolation in the Sub-Arctic Territory of the Hudson's Bay Company
The First Canadian Woman in the Northwest: The Story of Marie Anne Gaboury, Wife of John Baptiste Lajimonière, Arrived in the Northwest in 1807, and Died at St. Boniface at the Age of 96 Years
First Reader in the English and Blackfoot Languages, with Pictures and Words: Prepared by Order of the Department of Indian Affairs for Use in the Industrial Schools ...
Five Sioux Indians Posing, Prince Albert District, NWT.
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Four Sioux Indians pose at their camp, Prince Albert District, NWT.
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Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-'83
From the Minnetarees to the Shoshonees
The Gibbet of Regina
The Gibbet of Regina: The Truth about Riel: Sir John A. Macdonald and His Cabinet before Public Opinion by One Who Knows
Group Photo at Onion Lake Indian Agency
Hon. James Allan Smart - Sketch. - [1901 or 1902].
Indian Act Amendments
Indian Camp Prince Albert District, NWT.
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Indian Camp with Teepee, Prince Albert District, NWT.
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Indian Family in front of Teepee.
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Theodore Henry James Charmbury or T. H. J. as he was known, was an assistant to photographer Samuel Gray in Prince Albert for two years before starting his own studio there in 1902. He moved to Saskatoon in 1918, and was mainly a portrait photographer there until he retired in 1938. He photographed several Native leaders including Fine Day and Kahneepotaytayo. Two fires (1931, 1942) destroyed a huge portion of his negative collection.Indian Family Poses in front of Teepee, Prince Albert District, NWT.
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Indian Games: An Historical Research
The Indian Sagamore Samoset
Indian Territory, Descriptive, Biographical and Genealogical: Including the Landed Estates, County Seats, Etc., Etc., With a General History of the Territory
Indians performing a traditional ceremony, Prince Albert, NWT.
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