Biography & Autobiography

From Kangiqsualujjuaq to Copenhagen: A Personal Journey

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mary Simon
The Northern Review, no. 22, Winter, 2000, pp. 17-21
Description
Canada's Ambassador to Denmark and Canadian Ambassador for Circumpolar Affairs presents an autobiographical speech at the opening of the Circumpolar Women's Conference.
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"From the Story Book": Haven Gourneau

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Richard Peterson
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 26, no. 4, Tribal College Governance, Summer, 2015
Description
Looks at services offered at Fort Peck Community College and the president Haven Gourneau.
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Gabriel Dumont

Images » Photographs
Description
Full length shot of Gabriel Dumont, ca 1900, who presided over Metis Council of St. Laurent district and acted as war leader in the Riel Rebellion of 1885.
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George Ceepeekous: Dancer

Articles » General
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 29, no. 2, Powwow Issue, 1999, pp. 3, 6-7, 15, 17, 19, 22, 2
Description
Reflections of a powwow Prairie Chicken Dancer.
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George Gwynne Mann Family Fonds

Archival » Archival Items
Description
George Gwynne Mann was a farm instructor and Indian agent for the government of Canada in Onion Lake, North-West Territories from 1879 to 1900. Mann and his family fled Onion Lake to Fort Pitt after the so-called Frog Lake "massacre," and were later taken as hostages from Fort Pitt and held for two months by Plains Cree warriors. The file contains hand written manuscripts and photocopied documents that detail Mann family's involvement in the 1885 rebellion, and describe aspects of Aboriginal ceremony and culture.
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Geronimo

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Philip J. Greenfeld
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 217-220
Description
Book review of: Geronimo by Robert M. Utley. Review located by scrolling to page 217.
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[Geronimo]

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
T. Christopher Aplin
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 2, Spring, 2014, pp. 259-261
Description
Book review of: Geronimo by Robert Utley.
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Ghostkeeper

Alternate Title
Ghostkeeper: The Work of Ahasiw Maskegon-Iskwew
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
[Grunt Gallery]
Description
Website examines work of artist Ahasiw Maskegon-Iskwew through his writings, images, websites, and performances and essays by other curators and producers of his work.
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The Gibbet of Regina

Images
Description
An image of the frontispiece, The Gibbet of Regina by the One Who Knows, New York 1886. It shows an image of a young Riel next to his grave stone. It reads: In Memory of Louis David Riel, Born in 1844 and Cowardly executed on November 16, 1885. A tribute from his countrymen and sympathisers.
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Going Native

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Dorothy Kennedy
BC Studies, no. 134, Summer, 2002, pp. 97-98
Description
Book review of: Going Native by Tom Harmer. To acces this review, scroll to page 97.
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Grandma's Wicker Sewing Basket: Untangling the Narrative Threads in Silko's Ceremony

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Peter G. Beidler
Robert M. Nelson
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 28, no. 1, Special Issue on Teaching Leslie Marmon Silkos Ceremony, 2004, pp. 5-13
Description
The main character Tayo narrates return to his Reservation after being a prisoner of war and in Veteran's hospital. The book illustrates his transitions from confusion to clarity, sense of loss to security, feelings of being alone to feeling connected and fear to confidence.
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The Great Trek

Archival » Archival Items
Author/Creator
Reginald Bird Beatty
Description
This chapter of Reginald Beatty's diary describes his journey from his homestead in the Carrot River area to Troy (later Qu'Appelle Station) for supplies in late February 1886, a round trip of 300 miles. Also included is a description of the courtship between one of Beatty's travel companions and the local schoolteacher. Item found within folder 'Reginald Bird Beatty Papers.'

Historical note:

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Guy Williams Only Indian Senator

Articles » General
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 3, no. 5, May 1972, p. 12
Description
Brief biography and views of the only Indigenous person in the federal Senate, Senator Guy R. Williams (Kitimat).
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"Haida Ida": The Musical World of Ida Halpern

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Douglas Cole
Christine Mullins
BC Studies, no. 97, Cultural History in British Columbia, Spring, 1993, pp. 3-37
Description
Looks at the singer's life and northwest coastal Native Indian music especially the Kwakiutl and Nootka.
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Hail the New Chief, Georges Erasmus!

Alternate Title
[Georges Erasmus: Native Rights Crusader]
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
Description
News stories from the CBC Archives.
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Haunted by Pehin Hanska

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jay F. Custer
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 3/4, Special Issue: The National Museum of the American Indian, Summer - Autumn, 2005, pp. 675-690
Description
The author describes their experience of having grown up, and of later working in the field of archaeology, with the surname Custer.
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He Who Dreams: Reflections on an Indigenous Life in Film

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael Greyeyes
Theatre Research in Canada, vol. 29, no. 1, 2008, pp. 110-128
Description
Presents a performative text delivered by Michael Greyeyes as a keynote address given at Indigenous Film and Media in an International Context conference hosted by Wilfred Laurier University and York University, May, 2007.
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Henry Beaudry

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Rene Wassil
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 6, no. 3, March 1976, p. 44
Description
Exhibit at the RCMP Museum in Regina displays art work by Henry Beaudry of the Mosquito First Nation.
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Henry Dufresne and Charles Trottier

Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Reg Taylor
Description
Henry Dufresne (left) and Charles Trottier (right) who lived in Loon Lake in 1947. During the Rebellion Dufresne was an employee of the Hudson's Bay Company and surrendered to the Indians with 27 others at Fort Pitt. Trottier was a lieutenant of Gabriel Dumont at Duck Lake.

Historical note:

This photograph is part of a collection of images used by Reg Taylor of the Saskatoon Star Phoenix in an article he wrote which featured William Bleasdell Cameron, a survivor of the so-called Frog Lake Massacre, 2 April 1885. The article appeared in the Star Phoenix October 23, 1947.
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