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Reclaiming Tradition and Re-affirming Cultural Identity through Creating Kangaroo Skin Cloaks and Possum Skin Cloaks

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lynette Riley
Journal of Indigenous Wellbeing - Te Mauri: Pimatisiwin, vol. 1, no. 1, Healing Our Spirit Worldwide, The Seventh Gathering, August 2016, pp. 5-22
Description
Artist provides background about the robes and their significance, and discusses reconnecting to her culture through creating new versions.
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Red Pheasant Indian Reserve - Wedding on reserve

Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Creative Professional Photographers
Description
Three colour and 17 black and white photographs of a wedding ceremony held at Red Pheasant Reserve (nd). A Caucasian man and a women of African descent are getting married. Several Aboriginal people attend and conduct the ceremony are dressed in beaded, ceremonial clothing. The ceremony was held outdoors.
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Red River Cart at Calgary

Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
E. Roper
Description
Photograph of a painting. Images depicts Indigenous man in European dress with family in Red River Cart passing by man and woman in traditional dress. The caption on back reads: "'Savage' and 'Civilised' Indians meeting."

Historical note:

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The Reverend and Mrs. Stringer

Images » Photographs
Description
A copy of a photograph. On back: "The Rt. Rev. - Stringer Bishop & Mrs Stringer - the well-remembered 'Sadie' Stringer - many children carry her name. Photo taken at Herschel Island c 1911."
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Review Essay: Indigenous Motivations: Recent Acquisitions From the National Museum of the American Indian

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dasha Chapman
Mina Ellison
Anne Kwiatt
Tate LeFevre
Claire Nicholas ... [et al.]
Museum Anthropology Review, vol. 1, no. 2, Fall, 2007, pp. 93-99
Description
Reviews exhibition of over 250 American Indian artworks and crafts showcasing clothing, masks, modern textile designs, sculptures, paintings and artwork on paper.
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Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
June Nash
Renée Ater
James J. Garrett
William Willard
S. Carol Berg
Malinda Maynor Lowery
Rebecca Kugel
Marie Watkins
Robert Keith Collins
James D. Drake
David M. Brugge
Arif Dirlik
Kenichi Matsui
Qwo-Li Driskill
J. Cedric Woods
et. al.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 35, no. 1, 2011, pp. 119-185
Description
Book reviews of: 2000 Years of Mayan Literature by Dennis Tedlock. Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History’s Black and Indian Subject by Kirsten Pai Buick. Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples by Mark Dowie. Delaware Tribe in a Cherokee Nation by Brice Obermeyer. Demons, Saints, & Patriots: Catholic Visions of Indian America through The Indian Sentinel (1902–1962) by Mark Clatterbuck.
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Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
A. D. Fisher
Jill P. May
Heather K. Hardy
Gregory R. Campbell
Carolyn Balkwell
Catherine Price
Kathleen A. Dahl
Alice B. Kehoe
Cornelius J Jaenen
Rebecca Kugel
Michael J. Mullin
Steven Allaback
Greg Sarris
Martine J. Reid
et al.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 14, no. 3, 1990, pp. 93-174
Description
Book reviews of: As Long as the Rivers Run: Hydroelectric Development and Native Communities in Western Canada by James B. Waldram. Sun Journey: A Story of Zuni Pueblo by Ann Nolan Clark. Maricopa Morphology and Syntax by Lynn Gordon. The Cheyenne Nation: A Social and Demographic History by John H. Moore. Pride of the Indian Wardrobe-Northern Athapascan Footwear by Judy Thompson. Sagebrush Soldier: Private William Earl Smith's View of the Sioux War of 1876 by Sherry L.
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Ring Dance at Pion-Era

Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Thomas R. Melville-Ness
Description
An Aboriginal Ring Dance at the Pion-Era festival in Saskatoon, SK. 1958.
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Robes of Power: Totem Poles on Cloth

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Ira Jacknis
BC Studies, no. 78, Summer, 1988, pp. 82-84
Description
Book review of: Robes of Power by Doreen Jensen and Polly Sargent. Scroll down to page 82 to read review.
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Rose Bertha Fleury #1 Interview

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Rose Bertha Fleury
Brenda Arnault
Indian History Film Project
Description
Interview includes a general account of Rose Bertha Fleury's life.
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The Rose Collection of Moccasins in the Canadian Museum of Civilization: Transitional Woodland/Grassland Footwear

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David Sager
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 14, no. 2, 1994, pp. 273-304
Description
In the 19th century many Cree and Ojibway (Saulteaux) became permanent residents of the grassland borders taking on parts of material culture of the Plains. This paper looks at the change in footwear.
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"The Royal Regiment and Royal Grenadier Band visit Fort Battleford, July, 1962. On the dais to take the salute are Brig. Willis J. Moogk, commander of the Saskatchewan Area of the Canadian Army, and Indian boys, Percy Payeechew and Glen Kiskotagan."

Images » Photographs
Description
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.
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Royal Saskatchewan Museum First Nations Gallery Guide

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Royal Saskatchewan Museum
Description
A comprehensive guide to the First Nations Gallery at the Royal Saskatchewan Museum in Regina. Includes a variety of historical and anthropological information on First Nations within present day Saskatchewan.
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Saddle Lake Interviews

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Richard Lightning
Indian History Film Project
Description
Nine elders in discussion at Saddle Lake Reserve. They talk about aspects of life before contact with whites, Treaty #6, the history of amalgamations and land sales, and a traditional story of a boy raised by buffalo.
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Sakaweo, a Cree man from Sweetgrass

Images » Photographs
Description
Sakaweo, a Cree man from the Sweetgrass band armed with a lever action repeater rifle. No date provided: likely late nineteenth, early twentieth century.
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Sakaweo, a Cree man with Shotgun

Images » Photographs
Description
Sakaweo, a Cree man from the Sweetgrass band wearing a hat and sporting a shotgun. No date given but apparently late nineteenth early twentieth century.
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Sample Cover for The Face Pullers

Alternate Title
The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Frederick Steele
Description
Black and white photo of Indigenous man, "Black Plume" , wearing embroidered coat and holding ceremonial stick. From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
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Sample Cover for The Face Pullers

Alternate Title
The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Frederick Steele
Description
Sample cover for Brock Silversides' "The Face Pullers" featuring black and white photo of Blackfoot man identified as Black Plume, wearing embroidered coat.
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Sampson Beaver: Jasper National Park

Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
G. Morris Taylor (photographer)
Description
Formal portrait of Sampson Beaver wearing traditional clothes and headdress on postcard from Jasper National park.
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Sapangat: Inuit Beadwork in the Canadian Arctic

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bernadette Driscoll
Expedition, Winter, 1984, pp. 40-47
Description
Focuses on the decoration found on amautik (women's parkas) from the northwest coast of Hudson Bay.
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Saskatchewan River Dam Opening (Diefenbaker)

Images » Photographs
Description
Image of John Diefenbaker in ceremonial head dress at South Saskatchewan River Dam Opening. A crowd surrounds him and an interviewer takes a statement from a man in ceremonial dress standing beside Diefenbaker.
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Scalping and Torture: Warfare Practices Among North American Indians

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Olive Patricia Dickason
Prairie Forum, vol. 14, no. 1, Spring, 1989, pp. 98-100
Description
Book reviews of 2 books: Scalping and Torture: Warfare Practices Among North American Indians by Georg Friederici, Gabriel Nadeau, and Nathaniel Knowles. Hair Pipes in Plains Indian Adornment by J. C. Ewers.
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Seminole Buckskin Leggings

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
M.E. (Pete) Thompson
Whispering Wind, vol. 44, no. 1, 2015, pp. 6-12
Description
Instructions for constructing leggings in the style unique to the Florida region.
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Seminole Men & Women Head-Wear 1850-1920

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
M. E. Thompson
Whispering Wind, vol. 40, no. 1, Issue 275, March-April 2011, pp. 4-11
Description
Looks at changes in head wear with the availability of trade goods from turban style to hats and caps. Includes photographs.
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The Seminole / Mikasuki Plain Shirt

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
M.E. Thompson
Whispering Wind, vol. 42, no. 2, October/November 2013, pp. 6-15
Description
Instructions for sewing a replica. Shirts were originally a combination of Creek buckskin coats and British trade shirts.
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Seven Cree Children

Images » Photographs
Description
Seven Cree children at La Ronge. Taken during the journey of Christina Bateman and Annie McKay from Prince Albert to La Ronge, SK in 1919.
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Sharing Aboriginal Stories: Aborginal Moccasins

Alternate Title
Circles of Intelligent Knowledge Program
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Nikki Mike
Description
Very short pamphlet, written by a student; meant for use in the classroom as a tool to improve literacy. Text in English and Cree.
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The Shasta

Alternate Title
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History ; v. 17, pt.5
Huntington California Expedition (1899-1904)
E-Books
Author/Creator
Roland B. Dixon
Description
Forms part of Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, v.17 (p.381-498).
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