Archival Material
Stories of Indian Days: O-ge-mas-es Relates Many Incidents Of Early Life in the West.
Alternate Title
From the Diary of a Hudson’s Bay Clerk in the Seventies
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Reginald Beatty
Chris Willmore
Description
Compilation, edited and annotated, mainly consisting of newspaper articles published between 1920 and 1921. Text in bold, footnotes and words in square brackets are the editor's.
Subverting the Universality of Metadata Standards: The TK Labels as a Tool to Promote Indigenous Data Sovereignty
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
María Montenegro
[Maria] Montenegro
Journal of Documentation, vol. 75, no. 4, July 8, 2019, pp. 731-749
Description
Author examines current metadata standards, focusing on Dublin Core (DC), investigates ways in which anticolonial metadata frameworks can be implemented in the interest of promoting Indigenous data sovereignty.
Surrender of White Cap's Warriors
Alternate Title
Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion
Images » Photographs
Description
Sketch showing the surrender to French's Scouts, led by Lord Melgund, General Middleton's chief of staff. Sketch caption : "Three Dakota scouts told their captors that they had been forced to join Riel."
From the book Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion by Blair Stonechild and Bill Waiser.
Sustaining Indigenous Culture: The Structure, Activities, and Needs of Tribal Archives, Libraries and Museums
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Miriam Jorgensen
Description
Based on a National needs assessment survey of 230 organizations between 2010 and 2011. Supports need for a master plan, funding for more staff, culturally relevant training programs, and assistance with digitization of materials.
“This Spurious Philanthropy”: Indian Policy, Food and Canada’s North-West As Discussed in the Senate of Canada in 1886
Documents & Presentations
Description
"The evidence provided to this commission provides an interesting record of thoughts by the government and (mostly non-Indigenous, male) experts about food, Indigenous people and the Canadian North-West ten years after the near-extinction of the buffalo."
Through the Eyes of Louis Shotridge: Sharing Alaska’s
Native Tlingit History: A Digital Archive Project at Penn
Alternate Title
Libraries without Borders: Navigating towards Global Understanding
World Library and Information Congress ; 74th, 2008
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Lucy Fowler Williams
David McKnight
Description
A look at the Louis Shotridge collection; Louis Shotridge, also known as Stoowukháa (c. 1882-1937), was from the Tlingit people of Southeast Alaska and worked for the Penn Museum as Assistant Curator from 1915-1932. This paper also discusses decisions made concerning the information architecture and metadata standards used in developing the website.
Treaty 9 Diaries: The Real Agreement between First Nations and the Crown in 1905: Materials and Documents
Alternate Title
Treaty Nine Diaries: The Real Agreement between First Nations and the Crown in 1905
Treaty 9 Oral Promises
Last of the Indian Treaties
Twelve Hundred Miles by Canoe
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Mushkegowuk Council
Description
Website contains links to legal discussion paper on oral promises, digitized copies of the diaries of the three treaty commissioners (Daniel George Martin, Samuel Stewart, Duncan Campbell Scott), the official report, article Last of the Indian Treaties by Campbell Scott published in Scribner's Magazine, and series of articles by the Treaty Secretary entitled Twelve Hundred Miles by Canoe published in the Canada magazine.
Tribal Archives, Traditional Knowledge, and Local Contexts: Why the "s" Matters
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kimberly Christen
Journal of Western Archives, vol. 6, no. 1, Native American Archives Special Issue, 2015, p. article 3
Description
Introduces the Local Contexts project and the corresponding Traditional Knowledge (TK) License and Label platform as a way to navigate Indigenous Intellectual property rights.
Tribal Libraries, Archives, and Museums: Preserving Our Language, Memory, and Lifeways
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Kenneth Wade
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 37, no. 1, 2013, pp. 210-214
Description
Book review of: Tribal Libraries, Archives, Museums edited by Loriene Roy, Anjali Bhasin, and Sarah K. Arriaga.
Review located by scrolling to page 210.
Tribal Writers Digital Library
Archival » Collections (primary materials)
Author/Creator
Sequoyah National Research Center
Description
Website links to out of print works by American Indians, Alaska Natives and First Nations people in Canada, the American Native Press Archives and serials list, The Trail of Tears Through Arkansas, and Trail of Tears Primary Sources.
UP and DOWN the COAST: Records of Missions to First Nations in British Columbia
Alternate Title
Records of Missions to First Nations in British Columbia: UP and Down the COAST
Archival » Collections (primary materials)
Author/Creator
The United Church of Canada
Description
Website includes digitized archival images and documents of United Church of Canada missions to First Nations communities in British Columbia during the period of 1850 to 1975.
The "Vanishing Red": Photographs of Native Americans at the Hampton Institute
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James K. Guimond
Princeton University Library Chronicle, vol. 49, 1987-1988, p. 235
Description
"Discusses the significance of photographs as a record of American ideas about the education of Native Americans during the last years of the 19th Century."
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Viewing an Alien Culture
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Frits Pannekoek
The Beaver, vol. 70, no. 1, February/March 1990, pp. 55-[?]
Description
Book review of: The Orders of the Dreamed: George Nelson on Cree and Ojibwa Religion and Myth, 1823 edited by Jennifer S. H. Brown, Robert Brightman.
Voices of the Canoe: For Teachers
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Museum of Anthropology [University of British Columbia]
Description
Contains links to lesson plans for various levels under the themes of Indigenous Knowledge, Historical Consciousness, Evidence, Cultural Expressions, Colonialism, Ancient Civilizations, Mapping, Oral Traditions, Origin Stories, Resources, and Primary Sources.
Educators' section of website that focusses on Fijian, Haida and Squamish canoe traditions and their importance in each culture.
William James McLean
Alternate Title
Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion
Images » Photographs
Description
Photograph of Chief Factor at Fort Pitt in 1885; taken in a photo studio. Caption: "W.J. McLean, the HBC factor, realized that Pitt was indefensible and agreed to surrender voluntarily to Wandering Spirit."
From the book Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion by Blair Stonechild and Bill Waiser.
William James McLean (1841-1929) was in command of the Hudson's Bay Company trading posts at Fort Qu'Appelle, Ile a la Crosse and Fort Pitt.