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Challenges of Treaty Interpretation No. 2

Alternate Title
Treaty Interpretation 2 - Treaty Conference
Vancouver Island Pre-Confederation Treaties Conference, 2012
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
John Lutz
Cole Harris
Raymond Frogner
Louise Mandell
Speakers discuss: ambiguity in both oral accounts and written versions of the Douglas Treaties; litigation arising from treaties; archival treatment of colonial documents pertaining to the treaties and the bound register; contradictory views about the issue of treaty annuities versus lump sum payments. Followed by question and answer period. Duration: 2:01:00.
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Challenging Colonial Spaces: Reconciliation and Decolonizing Work in Canadian Archives

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Krista Mccracken
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 100, no. 2, June 2019, pp. 182-201
Argues that teaching the history of residential schools in Canada requires an examination of how that history has been recorded and preserved; that this examination reveals an incompatibility between the colonial frameworks in archival institutions and structures of Indigenous knowledges. Discusses the impact of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) on Canadian archival practices.
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Charles Trottier

Alternate Title
Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion
Images » Photographs
Photograph. Caption: "Charles Trottier was named a member of Riel's governing council for his efforts in bringing Whitecap and his band to Batoche." From the book Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion by Blair Stonechild and Bill Waiser.
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Cherokee Phoenix from Hunter Library

Alternate Title
[Cherokee Phoenix, and Indians' Advocate]
Archival » Collections (primary materials)
Author/Creator
Hunter Library
Western Carolina University

Links to certain issues of the newspaper of the Cherokee Nation. On February 11, 1929 became Cherokee Phoenix, and Indian Advocate. Accessible volumes: Vol. 1, February 21, 1828--March 11, 1829; Vol. 2, March 18, 1829--April 14, 1830; Vol. 3, April 21, 1830--June 11, 1831; Vol. 4, June 25, 1831--August 11, 1832; Vol. 5, August 25, 1832--May 31, 1834.

Reflects attitudes and language of the times.

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Chief Red Pheasant Aiding Escape of Indian Officials

Alternate Title
Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion
Images » Photographs
Sketch of Chief Red Pheasant aiding in the escape of John Applegarth, Farm Instructor, and Applegarth's wife from Red Pheasant reserve. Caption: "Chief Red Pheasant and his brother tried to prevent further bloodshed in the Eagle Hills district by warning local Indian officials to flee south to safety." From the book Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion by Blair Stonechild and Bill Waiser.
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Chief Starblanket and Group of Men at Treaty Four Signing

Images » Photographs
ack of photo: Group of Cree Indians in gala attire, taken at the paying of Treaty money at File Hills Reserve. The dresses are very brilliant. The tall man at back of group is wearing an overall of vivid blue. The white cuffs and all cross stitch patterns are their own handiwork. Tiny white beads very closely and evenly sewn together forming the background for cross stitch diamonds, the squares and fringes done in brightly colored beads. The old man wearing a fur cap is a Chief, his name is Star Blanket. The very old man sitting in the centre is quite blind and over a hundred years old.
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Chief Sweetgrass

Alternate Title
Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion
Images » Photographs
Portrait sketch of Chief Sweetgrass. Caption: "Sweetgrass was the acknowledged leader of the River People in the Fort Pitt area. He was killed accidentally by the gun he had received as a special treaty gift. From the book Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion by Blair Stonechild and Bill Waiser.
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Colonel William Otter

Alternate Title
Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion
Images » Photographs
Head and shoulders image of Colonel William Dillon Otter. Caption: "Colonel Otter decided to march against the Cut Knife camp in defiance of Middleton's orders." From the book Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion by Blair Stonechild and Bill Waiser.
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Colonialsim, Archives and Yukon First Nations: A Guide to Public Records in Yukon Archives Documenting the History Colonization in Yukon

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Yukon Archives
Guide developed in anticipation of request from National Inquiry on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls to identify relevant records with a focus on material created by the Yukon government. Divided into five thematic sections: early colonization, education, justice, health and social programs and intergovernmental relationships.
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The Commission of 1885 to the North-West Territories

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
H. H. Langton
[W. P. R. Street]
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 25, no. 1, March 1944, pp. 38-53
Background to the Commission's role in enumerating Métis entitled to land, followed by transcript of Chief Commissioner's account of its activities.
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Community Archival Practice: Indigenous Grassroots Collaboration at the Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Krista McCracken
American Archivist, vol. 78, no. 1, 2015, pp. 181-191
Case study emphasizes the importance of archival practices which follow cultural and ethical best practices and involve the community in order to correct past biases and ensure that Indigenous voices are present in the historical record.
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Conducting Research on Residential Schools: A Guide to the Records of the Indian and Inuit Affairs Program and Related Resources at Library and Archives Canada

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Library and Archives Canada
Topics include: tracing changes in administration of a Band, First Nation, or residential school; filing systems, school file series; finding records; using archives search; consulting records; and accessing records from a remote location.
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Coqualeetza Institute

Alternate Title
Guide to Residential Schools Records at the Pacific Mountain Regional Council Archives, Part 4
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Pacific Mountain Regional Council of the United Church of Canada
Guide to documents held in the United Church Archive in British Columbia. Arranged alphabetically by the name of the collection or fonds, with the ability to click on title and access detailed description from MemoryBC.
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A Corroboree for the Countess of Kintore: Enlivening Histories Through Objects

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gaye Sculthorpe
Aboriginal History, vol. 42, December 2018, pp. 55-72
Article examines how the artifacts and records held in ethnographic collections in Britain can, when re-examined critically, reveal additional information about historical events. Uses a Corroboree (Indigenous rite) held in 1893 as a case study to illustrate this process.
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Coulee at Fort Qu'Appelle, N.W.T.

Alternate Title
Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion
Images » Photographs
On back of photograph: "(North-West Rebellion - 1885) Coulee at Fort Qu'Appelle, N.W.T. 12th and 35th Regiments and Winnipeg Cavalry, York and Simcoe Batteries, en route through Touchwood Hills to Humboldt [Sask.]. [Lt.-Col. Wm. E. O'Brien on white horse commanding the York and Simcoe Battalions." From the book Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion by Blair Stonechild and Bill Waiser.
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CPR Telegraph Ledger: The North-West Resistance

Archival » Archival Items
Author/Creator
Saskatchewan Archives
Online exhibition of communication between the military forces and the Canadian government during the conflict. Telegrams begin in days leading up to Battle of Fish Creek, after the initial Battle of Duck Lake, and after the Frog Lake Massacre.
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Cree Council on Sweetgrass Reserve

Alternate Title
Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-west Rebellion
Images » Photographs
Photograph of council held near Battleford. People; horses and terrain in foreground; buildings on extreme left and right of image. Caption "The Battleford-bound Cree held a council on the Sweetgrass reserve in late March 1885; the meeting was interrupted by two Metis messengers who wanted the Indians to capture the fort." From the book Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-west Rebellion by Blair Stonechild and Bill Waiser.
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Crosby Girls’ Home (Lax Kw’alaams, B.C.)

Alternate Title
Guide to Residential Schools Records at the Pacific Mountain Regional Council Archives
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Pacific Mountain Regional Council of the United Church of Canada
Guide to residential school records held by the United Church Archive in British Columbia. Arranged alphabetically by the name of the collection or fonds, with the ability to click on title and access more detailed description from MemoryBC.
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Curtis (Edward S.) Collection

Alternate Title
Edward S. Curtis
Archival » Archival Items
Author/Creator
Edward S. Curtis
Collection contains 1,068 digitized images taken by the famed photographer of Aboriginal peoples in the early 19th century. Many of the images were not included in the multi-volume The North American Indian, so are unavailable elsewhere.
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[Decolonizing Archives]

Alternate Title
[5th Annual Critical Conversations Series]
[Critical Conversations on Truth and Reconciliation]
[Critical Conversations Series]
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
[Greg Bak]
Podcast discusses the destructing of archives which amounted to lost records of residential school students experiences. Duration: 25:29 Accompanying material.
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Decolonizing Attribution: Traditions of Exclusion

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jane Anderson
Kimberly Christen
Journal of Radical Librarianship, vol. 5, June 3, 2019 , pp. 113-152
Authors offer a decolonial critique of academic attribution practices arguing that they maintain the Euro-centric hierarchies of knowledge production. They argue for the decolonizing attribution by reevaluating the process through Indigenous lenses of kinship and connection to land.
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Dickinson College Builds Carlisle Indian Industrial School Resource Center

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Malinda Triller Doran
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 1, no. 2, Fall, 2014, pp. 149-150
Looks at building a searchable database that will provide information about a specific student, tribal affiliations or outing assignments.
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Digital Archives Database

Alternate Title
Métis Digital Archive
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
[Métis Research Lab
University of Ottawa?]
Contains links to thousands of Métis historical documents, personal accounts, genealogical information and Hudson's Bay Company, Census, and Church missionary records.
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Digital Archives Database Project

Alternate Title
[Métis] Digital Archives Database Project
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
[Adrienne Fleming
Paul Gareau
Katie Pollock
Joseph Arbour
Tim Foran]
Contains three basic datasets: Sacramental Records from the Great Lakes, Red River, and Great Plains, Censuses, 1827-1870, and western north American fur trade documents, 1793-1858. Much, but not all, of the information relates to the Métis. You must register and log in to use resource.
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Digital Decolonization and Activist Tagging in the Post-Apology Residential School Database

Alternate Title
Proceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS ; 2018
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Danielle Allard
Shawna Ferris
Kiera Ladner
Carmen Miedema
Database is a collection of news media responses to and representations of the schools since the Canadian government's official apology in 2008. Authors describe their approach to archival description and outline how project members and "guest taggers" describe, organize and display records to promote decolonization.
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Digital Ethics and Reconciliation: Digital Ethics Report

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Karine St-Onge
Report offers 26 recommendations for library staff and researchers seeking to decolonize their services in regards to collaborative research with Indigenous communities, the products of that research, and previously acquired archival materials. Multiple case studies included; majority are Canadian, but also includes cases from Australia, New Zealand, Latin America, and the United States.
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Digitising and Handling Indigenous Cultural Resources in

Libraries, Archives and Museums

Alternate Title
Communities and Memories: A Global Perspective: Memory of the World Conference
International Memory of the World Conference ; 3rd, 2008
Making the Intangible Tangible
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Alex Byrne
Discusses the issues involved when institutions attempt to provide greater access to materials relating to Indigenous cultures.
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Digitizing Cherokee Culture: Libraries, Students, and the Reservation

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Timothy B. Powell
MELUS, vol. 30, no. 2, Pedagogy, Praxis, Politics, and Multiethnic Literatures, Summer, 2005, pp. [79]-98
Uses the example of the University of Georgia's project to preserve, archive and interpret culture to illustrate opportunities and problems associated with using technology to provide access to historical materials.
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Dis/engagement: Zitkala-Ŝa's Letters to Carlos Montezuma, 1901-1902

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ruth Spack
MELUS, vol. 26, no. 1, Varieties of the Ethnic Experience, Spring, 2001, pp. 172-204
Article explores the biographical, historical and sociocultural context of the correspondence housed by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
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Documenting the Dakota: Lucy Margaret Baker

Alternate Title
Lucy Margaret Baker Fonds (F 375)
Archival » Collections (primary materials)
Author/Creator
Saskatchewan Archives Board
Records in the Margaret Baker fonds collection tell the story of the development of the Wahpeton reserve and Lucy Baker's activities as a missionary teacher. Reflects stereotypical views of the time.
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The Doris Duke American Indian Oral History Program: Gathering the "Raw Material of History"

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dianna Repp
Journal of the Southwest, vol. 47, no. 1, Oral History Remembered: Native Americans, Doris Duke, and the Young Anthropologists, Spring, 2005, pp. 11-28
Provides overview of the program and goals which included documentation of the history of Native Americans in their own voices and from their own perspectives.
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