Dwellings & Architecture

Photograph of buildings located in Hazelton, BC taken by a former missionary.

Compares conventional stormwater management with a sustainable design model.

Discusses structure type, location and faunal content.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--McGill University, 1996.

City Planning Thesis (M.C.P.)--University of Manitoba, 2014.

Image shows a camp set up with racks (made from poles bound together) and tent and wagon in background.

A photograph of an Aboriginal camp in Prince Albert District, NWT [1901]. There are several teepees and some wagons. There is a corral in the background, and they also appear to be building log houses.

Historical note:

A photograph of an Aboriginal camp in Prince Albert District, NWT [1901]. There are several army style white tents with chimneys in background and a teepee in foreground. A man sits outside the teepee.

Historical note:

An image of five teepees on a rock outcropping near a lake.

Postcard of painting done by Canadian artist Paul Kane (1810-1871) showing an Aboriginal camp on Lake Huron, ON. Canoes and people working in foreground; tipis and Lake Huron in background.

A photograph of an Aboriginal family in front of their teepee wearing western clothing. Taken in Prince Albert District, NWT [1901].

Historical note:

Theodore Henry James Charmbury or T. H. J. as he was known, was an assistant to photographer Samuel Gray in Prince Albert for two years before starting his own studio there in 1902. He moved to Saskatoon in 1918, and was mainly a portrait photographer there until he retired in 1938. He photographed several Native leaders including Fine Day and Kahneepotaytayo. Two fires (1931, 1942) destroyed a huge portion of his negative collection.

Thesis (Ph.D)--Arizona State University, 2003.

A log house and smoking teepee at Indian Village. Near Yellowknife, N.W.T.

Book review of: The Indian School on Magnolia Avenue edited by Clifford E. Trafzer, Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert and Lorene Sisquoc. Review located by scrolling to page 183.

Discussion of colonial and post-colonial theory and the relationship to the design of a pavilion. Architectural History Paper--(McGill University?), 2010.

Panel members discuss their participation in the Unceded: Voices of the Land exhibit, how they incorporate Indigenous worldviews into their practice, the importance of consulting with communities, and furthering decolonization when designing buildings. Duration: 1:44:25.

Interdisciplinary Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia (Vancouver), 2015.

Focuses on the four accessibility standards developed by the Canadian Accessibility Standards Development Organization (CASDO): design of public space, employment, plain language, and means of egress/exits from buildings.

Author speaks on the influences on his work as well as indigenous ancient architectural sites and his contemporary projects. Duration: 54:53.

Architecture Thesis (M.Arch)--Laurentian University, 2020.

Landscape Architecture Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba, 1999.

Interior Design Thesis (M.I.D.)--University of Manitoba, 2013.

Plant Science Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of British Columbia, 2009.

The interior of the Anglican church in the community of Apex at Frobisher Bay, N.W.T. [NU]. In 1987 Frobisher Bay was renamed Iqaluit.

Architecture Thesis (M.Arch.)--Dalhousie University-DalTech, 1998.

Discusses how the built environments of residential schools, as well as structures erected on reserves, were a reflection of the government's colonialist agenda.

Topics include community planning, technical considerations, design by demographic, and cultural housing and community design.

Five elders of the Sarcee Reserve (ages 48-63) discuss their understanding of Treaty #7.

Introduction to special issue celebrating Indigenous film in North America with examples of key films and filmmakers, approaches to studying and writing and interviews with filmmakers in Canada, Mexico and the United States.

Photograph of children playing, with tents in background; taken at Eskimo Point, N.W.T. [NU]. (community's name changed to Arviat in 1989). Title on file: Eskimo Children at Play.

Children exiting tent located beside drying hides; photograph taken in Eskimo Point, N.W.T. [NU]. (community's name changed to Arviat in 1989). Title on file: Eskimo Children, Drying Caribou Hide.

Photograph of an Inuit encampment at Chesterfield Inlet, NWT.

Photograph of encampment with church in the background.

Mission in background at Chesterfield Inlet, NWT [NU].

Mr. Ledoux, aged 99 at the time of the interview is of mixed French and Indian ancestry but is registered as a treaty Indian. He was present during the Riel Rebellion of 1885 and gives an account of what he saw in the Rebellion; views of the rebellion and the people involved.

General account of Mr. Ouellette's life; and Metis history.

Interview of the grandsons of Little Bear who discuss lifestyle. They tell stories about Cree raids on Blackfoot;the hanging of Little Bear and murder of a storekeeper's son by a medicine man. Interpreter by Alphonse Littlepoplar.

Summary of a series of interviews with four elders in which they are asked to tell how they understand the treaties.

Consists of an interview where Joe Clemine reminiscences about his early life. He mentions a smallpox epidemic which occurred in his grandfather's time and tells of a battle between the Chilcotin and Cree Indians.

Joe Duquette, born 1904, on Mistawasis Reserve, never attended school, completely self-educated. Now Senator of F.S.I. and involved in teaching and counselling young people. He tells the story of his arranged marriage.

Describes how Blood Indians came to have tipis and the various designs they use for them.

Tipi Design 2 and Black Seizers Pipe. Describes how the Blood Indians came to use tipis and the various designs they use to decorate them.