Lena Desjarlais Interview
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Lena Desjarlais
Sharon Gaddie
Indian History Film Project
Description
Interviewee gives a general description of her life. The tape got increasingly more difficult to hear as it went along, and the transcriber stopped after 16 pages. There are no index terms provided.
[Leo Baskatawang, Applied Research, Marching From Vancouver to Ottawa]
Alternate Title
At the Edge of Canada: Indigenous Research
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Leo Baskatawang
Robert-Falcon Ouellette
Description
Interview with a Masters student who will be conducting a march (March4Justice) across Canada from Vancouver to Ottawa to force awareness about the issues surrounding the Indian Act.
Duration: 32:38. Interview begins at 7:10.
[Leo Baskatawang March 4 Justice and the Indian Act]
Alternate Title
At the Edge of Canada: Indigenous Research
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Leo Baskatawang
Robert-Falcon Ouellette
Description
Interview with a Native Studies student who walked from Vancouver to Ottawa to raise awareness about the Indian Act.
Duration: 29:46.
Lessons From a Case Study of Aboriginal and Canadian Justice Coexistence in Vancouver
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Ted Palys
Richelle Schaefer
Yana Nuszdorfer
Justice as Healing, vol. 19, no. 4, 2014, pp. 1-8
Description
Looks at the creation of Vancouver Aboriginal Transformative Justice Services (VATJS) and the development of a Downtown Community Court (DCC) to service chronic offenders in an area of Vancouver.
Letter
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Ernest Merwick
Indian History Film Project
Description
Ernest Merwick writes a letter to Margaret Stobie regarding possible Scottish (Orkney) connections to the Red River dialect of certain tribes in that area. Letter includes an Orkney fairytale. No date given, possibly the 1970's. No indexed terms.
Letter from Thomas Quinn to George G. Mann
Archival » Archival Items
Author/Creator
Thomas T. Quinn
Description
A photocopy of a letter sent by Indian agent Thomas Quinn of Frog Lake to farm instructor George G. Mann of Onion Lake on 31 March 1885. It reads: "Dear Mann - Messenger [that] hand you this letter is sent by me to tell some of your Indians to come here to have a talk and try and keep all quiet here. If any wish to come give them grub enough to come with to here. All quiet here and no danger. I will be down on the 2nd. Faithfully T. T. Quinn."
[Letters by a Former Student on His Memories of the Indian Training School]
Alternate Title
Letters by Henry Sicade
Archival » Archival Items
Author/Creator
Henry Sicade
Description
Three brief transcribed letters about student's time at the Forest Grove Indian Training School, also known as the Chemawa Indian School. Originals held in the Forest Grove Indian School Collection, Pacific University Archives.
Letters of Sir Alexander MacKenzie
Archival » Archival Items
Author/Creator
MacKenzie
Alexander
Description
This book consists of letters written to Roderic Mackenzie during Alexander Mackenzie's travels to such places as Ile a la Crosse, Grand Portage, Sandy Bay, Athabasca, Lac la Loche, Lac la Pluie, Fort Chipeywan, and other locations. He frequently mentions encounters with Indians, specifically "Red Knives", Chipewyan, Cree, and Beaver Indians.
Levi Wasegenis Interview
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Levi Wasegenis
Indian History Film Project
Description
Most of the tape is incomprehensible or inaudible. There wasn't any material to index. Transcribed by Heather Yaworski.
A Life Changing Experience
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Krista Harada
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 18, no. 1, The Winding Road to Student Success, Fall, 2006, p. 37
Description
Author reflects on how she came to learn she was a diabetic and the time it took to accept the diagnosis.
Life Experiences of Aboriginal Women Living With HIV/AIDS
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kim McKay-McNabb
Canadian Journal of Aboriginal Community-Based HIV/AIDS Research, vol. 1, Inaugural Edition, Summer, 2006, pp. 5-16
Description
Qualitative study involving eight women infected or affected by HIV. Focused on women's experiences on the road to healing. (Article appears on p. 5 of inaugural issue of Canadian Journal of Aboriginal Community-Based HIV/AIDS Research.)
Life in Residential Schools: A Response to Shirley Sterling’s My Name is Seepeetza
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Desirée Pelletier
Language & Literacy, vol. 2, no. 2, 2000, p. [?]
Description
Author compares the experiences of her grandmother to those of the character Martha in Sterling's work and asserts that while Martha 's story it is not representative of all the children, it provides a useful introduction to the subject of residential schools.
The Life of Ne-gua-nan-I-sew
Archival » Archival Items
Author/Creator
Reginald Bird Beatty
Description
This chapter of Reginald Beatty's diary relates to his friendship with Ne-gua-nan-I-sew, a Cree man who first traded with Beatty in 1884. Beatty details Ne-gua-nan-I-sew's marriage, family life and eventual death of Ne-gua-nan-I-sew and his family in a prairie fire. Item found within folder 'Reginald Bird Beatty Papers.'
Historical note:
Life of W. J. Carter - 30 July 1923.
Archival » Archival Items
Author/Creator
W.J. Carter
Description
Typescript of W.J. Carter's autobiographical account of his life and experiences in Western Canada during the period 1879 to 1910s. The most interesting part is Carter's account of the impact of the Northwest Resistance of 1885 on the Prince Albert community. Carter, a carpenter by trade, was hired by William McKenzie in August 1889 to build stations on the railway between Regina and Prince Albert.
Life Stories of Inuit Leaders: Inuit Voices in the Making of Nunavut
Alternate Title
INALCO 2009, Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference, Orality (Paris, 2006)
Orality in the 21st Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices. Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Thierry Rodon
Louis McComber
Description
Five narrators comment on the transformation to the way of life of Inuit people due to the arrival of government services.
Paper from Orality in the 21st Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices. Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference edited by B. Collingnon and M. Therrien.
Life With the Esquimaux: The Narrative of Captain Charles Francis Hall, of the Whaling Barque "George Henry" From the 29th May, 1860, to the 13th September, 1862. Vol.1-2
E-Books
Author/Creator
Charles Francis Hall
Description
"With the results of a long intercourse with the Innuits, and full description of their mode of life, the discovery of actual relics of the expedition of Martin Frobisher of three centuries ago, and deductions in favour of yet discovering some of the survivors of Sir John Franklin's expedition".