File contains 2 negatives from the opening of the Prince Albert Indian and Metis Friendship Centre, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, April 12, 1962. Images show several officials in attendance at the opening ceremony of the facility.
File contains a copy of Diefenbaker's speech at his nominating convention as the candidate for Prince Albert, in which he speaks of his governments initiatives in allowing the voices of Indigenous peoples to be heard. He refers to the appointment of Indigenous senator James Gladstone, of giving Indigenous peoples the right to vote, and of the Indian Claims Commission.
1 file containing: Notes for an election speech in Peterborough, Ontario. He mentions that his government has installed an Indigenous representative to Parliament.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 1, no. 3, May 1962, pp. [13-18]
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Department of Indian Health employee outlines attitudes necessary to successfully interact with and deliver services to their clients. From a 1962 speech to Peace Crops volunteers, Arizona State University.
An Army commander stands on a platform with an Aboriginal boy on each side of him dressed in ceremonial clothes. A large crowd is gathered in the background. They are all inside the pallisade at Fort Battleford.
File includes list of expenditures by Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources in Saskatchewan, 1957-62, including Roads to Resources; and a 19 December 1962 letter from the Hon. R.A. Bell, Minister of Citizenship & Immigration, enclosing memo from Neil McLeod regarding the activities of Chief Joseph Dreaver, who had travelled to various SK reserves to gather the views of Indigenous peoples concerning possible changes to the Indian Act.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 1, no. 3, May 1962, pp. [26-31]
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Traces the history of Aboriginal education, offers suggestions for improvement, and advances the theory that cutural difference should produce creative expansion in art and ideas.
Journal of American Folklore, vol. 75, no. 298, October-December 1962, pp. 283-300
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Focuses on the Earth-grasper myth or Woman who fell from the Sky, one of the creation stories common to the nations of the Haudenosaunee confederacy and considers the themes and motifs contained therein as a lens for studying the cultures of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca peoples.
Three tepees in an early Indian encampment on the prairies. . A few Red River carts are parked beside them, and an Aboriginal woman and a dog are in foreground.
Booklet of a study of Vuntakutchin people living at Fort Egbert, Alaska. Topics include habitations, annual movements, food, fishing and hunting, government, funeral ceremonies and names.