Reserves

Public and International Affairs Major Research Paper (M.A.)--University of Ottawa, 2013.

Discusses the need for better connectivity to First Nations reserves, such as telephone lines,underground cables, and cellphone towers to provide Internet and other communication services.

Reports on an assessment of Indigenous health measurement systems in Canada.

Spreadsheet contains information on: community names, reserve names, locations, affiliations, languages, and applicable treaty/agreement/settlement. Can be limited by individual provinces or territories.

Analysis of 309 responses from seven regions (Yukon, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Atlantic). Questionnaire was intended to gauge respondents experience and data sources, and gather basic information about the community, current housing stock and anticipated future needs.

Political Science Thesis (M.A.)--University of Victoria, 2001.

Examines social development policies, human resources, client assessment practices, services and programs, data management resources and research opportunities on reserves.

Compared results of First Nations women living on reserve to those from the National Population Health Survey (NPHS) and found higher rates of depression but lower rates of alcohol consumption.

Describes First Rider (Bill Heavy Runner)'s understanding of promises made in Treaty #7 and how they were later broken.

Discusses the nature and place of storytelling during the early and present day Debajehmujig Theatre, founded in 1984, on Manitoulin Island, Ontario.

Elementary teacher resource for use with I Like Who I Am by Tara White.

FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Consists of historical documents, maps, correspondence/letters, bulletins, legal documents, transcripts, submissions and the English and French versions of the Final Report. [These files were created and compiled by the ICC and provided to the Indigenous Studies Portal in 2009 to make widely available in online format.]

Book reviews of: Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance and Reserves in British Columbia by Cole Harris.

Describes the resistance of Nekaneet (Foremost Man or Front Man) and those that followed him, to the attempts of the Canadian government to settle the First Nations onto reserves. Argues that Nekaneet’s goal was a reserve in the Cypress Hills. Entire issue on one .pdf scroll to page 94

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 2002.

Looks at the federal government's responsibility for special education programs on reserves. Provides recommendations for strategies to develop a system to support students, teachers and communities.

Suggests that educating Aboriginal families in Indigenous ways of knowing and being would reduce child welfare interventions by territorial, provincial and federal governments. Chapter from Until Our Hearts Are on the Ground: Aboriginal Mothering, Oppression, Resistance, and Rebirth edited by Jeanette Corbiere Lavell and Dawn Memee Lavell-Harvard. Scroll down to read chapter.

A photograph of three men and a young boy posing in front of a horse drawn wagon loaded with canoes. The Red Earth Reserve trading post is in the background. The elevated man is identified as Matthew McKay and one of the others as perhaps a Garvin. Photo was taken in early spring before they went out trapping. Nd, perhaps 1930 to 1950?

A frame house with dormer windows on a reserve. Date and location unknown.

General recollections of her school days.

An interview which discusses the negotiation of Treaty 8 at Fort Chipewyan, and promises made ; problems of insufficient land for trapping on Chipewyan Reserve ; and alcohol abuse among native people.

Transfer of families between bands in Lesser Slave Lake area.

Frank Cardinal (aged 68), chief of the Sucker Creek Reserve, discusses Treaty #8 and its interpretation, the establishment of the reserves around Lesser Slave Lake, and problems facing a chief in modern times.

This 62-year-old speaks of the history of Lesser Slave Lake Reserves; and gives details of the history of Swan River Reserve.

Gives the history of the Frog Lake Reserve and the taking of and interpretation of Treaty #6.

Looks at the artists' work and focuses on the roles of rebellion and cross-cultural influences in reservation culture and Native American art.

Book reviews of From Treaties to Reserves by D. J. Hall and From Treaty Peoples to Treaty Nation by Greg Poelzer and Ken S. Coates.

Six teenagers from Ontario share their stories. Teacher's Guide Duration: 35:26.

Discusses how ancestral law and traditional practices of the Diné are understood and applied by the Navajo Nation Council and other cultural and environmental organizations.

Explains the First Nation Land Management Act and the benefits and drawbacks.

This file contains notes regarding factors affecting Wood Buffalo Park and interest of the Department of Indian Affairs in constructing a reserve there.

Gambling, gaming, and economic development on First Nations reserves.

File contains hand written and typed notes of historian George Shepherd, dated from 1937-1974. The notes include several pages on Aboriginal history in the North-West, that were scanned for this database. This includes a wide variety of material: from copy of a letter written by Louis Riel, to a list of the reserves in Saskatchewan in 1962 and their estimated landbase and populations.

Historical note:

Establishment of the Ermineskin, Louis Bull, Montana and Samson Reserves ; sale of Louis Bull Reserve land.

Describes rebate program signed by Chief Sol Sanderson and Agricultural Minister Gordon MacMurchy.

A photograph of a gathering of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in Onion Lake North West Territories circa 1890. Maybe a Dominion Day celebration or perhaps Treaty day. The men wear suits and the women and young girls wear long dresses.

Compares policies that oppressed Aboriginal women in Australia and Canada during the 19th and 20th centuries. Special Joint issue with Labour History, volume 71.

Keynote address by associate professor of Native Studies at York University. Duration: 1:05:11.

Geography Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Saskatchewan, 1968.

Recounts what two elders told of Treaty #6 and the promises made under it.

A discussion of Treaty 7: promises made and broken; and the traditional relationship of the Indian to his surroundings.

Consists of an interview with George First Rider where he talks about his childhood and lack of schooling, his development of horsemanship, his membership in holy societies and his alcoholism.

A photograph of the George G. Mann family in Onion Lake with friends. Taken after Mann's recent transfer from Onion Lake to Saddle Lake; perhaps they had returned for a visit.

A photograph of George Mann Jr. taken in the Saddle Lake North West Territories Indian agency house between 1900 and 1905. He grew up in Onion Lake N. W. T. and was a fluent Cree speaker.

A staged photograph of George Mann Jr. playing cards with a friend, probably in Saddle Lake Indian agency between 1900 and 1905. He worked with his father, Indian agent George Mann (see historical note), and later became a telegraph line man for the Government of Canada.

A photograph of George Mann Jr. playing a banjo and sitting next to a piano in the Saddle Lake Indian agency house between 1900 and 1905. He worked with his father, Indian agent George Mann (see historical note), and became a Government telegraph operator in 1902.

A photograph of George Mann Jr. with some Aboriginal (Cree & Metis?) friends, probably in Onion Lake North West Territories circa 1900. Mann was a fluent Cree speaker and had many friends in that area. He fathered a child there in 1898.

A photograph of George Mann Jr. with a group of Aboriginal men, women and children, probably taken in the Onion Lake North West Territories in the 1890s. Mann spent much of his youth in Onion Lake, and fathered a child there in 1898 before his father was transferred to Saddle Lake in 1900.