Churches

A panorama photograph of Dominion Bar Pageant in Lebret, Sask. Included are Native people in ceremonial clothing, Caucasian people wearing black-face and Indian costumes, RCMP officers, and large group of spectators. Group of Native and Metis(?) people stands on periphery in foreground. J.F. Bryant from District Court sits cross-legged in centre. Father Lebret statue also shown.

Celebration of Qaggiqan an Inuit festival and the new territory Nunavut at Christ Church Cathedral in Ottawa.

Discusses the forging a relationship between two churches in Oakville, ON and New Westminster, BC and the Anglican Indigenous Sacred Circle, beginning with prayers and letters.

Explains that the common experience payment is to recognize the kind of deprivation students suffered at the residential schools.

A photo of people outside the Anglican Church at La Ronge. Taken during the journey of Christina Bateman and Annie McKay from Prince Albert to La Ronge, SK in 1919.

Discussion of various missions and correspondence of the Moravian Church in the eighteenth and early twenthieth century.

Describes the amalgamations at the Saddle Lake Reserve, and the sale of reserve land.

A photocopy of a petition and letters sent by Indian agent George G. Mann of Onion Lake to Ottawa in November and December, 1887. This correspondence was in regard to the early release of Way-way-see-too-win (Dressy Man), Charlebois and Louison Mongrain who had been convicted of murder in 1885 and sentenced to life in prison. Mann names these three men as the ones who saved his life on 2 April 1885 after the so-called Frog Lake massacre.

Comments on peyote connection with Native American Church ceremonies and presents general information and description of Native American Church. Bachelor's Thesis towards undergraduate degree in [English Language and Literature]--University of West Bohemia, 2014.

Discusses how members' disagreements over whether or not the use and possession of the psychoactive substance should be criminalized affected the organization. Special combined issue of Studies in American Indian Literatures and American Indian Quarterly. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 159.

Personal narrative about a visit St. John's Episcopal Church on a cold winter day.

Interviews Navajos who were involved in a voluntary foster-care program sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah which placed Native American Mormon children into white Mormon homes for the school year.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan, 1998.

Comments on the expression of sorrow Pope Benedict XVI gave to a Canadian First Nations delegation regarding residential school abuse in April 2009.

Excerpt from the Book of Common Prayer in Cree syllabics.

Several speakers voice concerns about changes that have crept in to the ceremonies. Recall how things were done in former times and stress need to return to old ways.

Comments on one dimension of the process of reconciliation in Montreal and other places in Quebec. Chapter 5 from Plural Spiritualities: North American Experiences edited by Robert J. Schreiter. To access chapter 5, scroll to page 91.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Missouri - Columbia, 1997.

"Text in Duployan shorthand with English and Latin headings in italics."

Photograph of a the Presbyterian Mission House at Prince Albert, NWT, 1879. Has the comment "Built by Mr. Nisbet who like his Master was a Carpenter" attached.

This file contains four reports (quarterly) from the Makoce Waste Mission School in 1898. It marks attendance of students and discusses their school work, "industrial work," and over all "progress" in their studies.

This file contains four Mission School reports (quarterly reports) for the Makoce Waste Reserve near Prince Albert, written by Lucy M. Baker. The reports show student attendance and discuss student activities and progress in their studies.

This file contains four reports (quarterly) from the Makoce Waste Mission School in 1901, and one report from 1902. The reports mark the attendance of students and discuss their school work, "industrial work," "progress" in their studies, conduct and health.

File contains a presentation by Will Basque of Eskasoni, Nova Scotia. Micmac is a Smoganist or soldier veteran in Micmac, and represents all the combat veterans of the Micmac nation. Basque fought in both the Dominican Republic, and twice during the Vietnam War. Basque relays a history of the Micmac nation, with particular emphasis on its Catholic nature, and recognition as the "first state" of Canada. He also discusses legal developments in Canada and the United States, as well as residential schools, the Indian Act, and other matters.

Gives catechisms, prayer and hymns in the Tsattine language in syllabics.

Discussion of the contempt of court charge against Rev. Graeme Brownlee, an Anglican priest, and 23 others who protested against logging in the Clayoquot Sound area of British Columbia.

Rev. Ben Arreak presents own perspective on deacon Rev. Eyeetsiak Simigak's behaviour; he was convicted of sexual interference with a child and three counts of sexual exploitation.

A group of Metis men and Roman Catholic priests at Beauval, Saskatchewan. Date unknown.

Includes comments from Rev. Gloria Moses, who is Salish, in her capacity as a representative of the Anglican Council of Indigenous Peoples (ACIP).

Discusses the visit two Anglican church leaders made to a remote hand-built Anglican chapel in northern Ontario.

Includes phonemic lexicon, translation of a series of questions and answers about characters from the Bible, catechism, prayers, and translations of other scriptural teachings, e.g., Ten Commandments, Lord's Prayer.

Book reviews of 2 books : Proclaiming the Gospel to the Indians & the Metis by Raymond J. Huel, and The True Spirit and Original of Treaty 7 by Treaty 7 Elders and Tribal Council with Walter Hildebrandt, Dorothy First Rider, and Sarah Carter.

Describes how protesters picketed in front of the Anglican Church of Canada's national office, February 8, 2008, demanding that the church investigate the cases of children from the residential school system that went missing or died.

Book review of: Protests, Land Rights, and Riots by Barry Morris.

Title: "Indians and Missionaries". (From left): Rev. J. McDougall, Chief Samson, Chief Pakan, Rev. R.B. Steinh[?], Chief Jonas Big Stoney. Studio portrait.

Titled: "Sarcee Reserve". Group of people gathered outside church(?).

Entitled: "ST. Albert Convent 1898". A marching band, front row seated and back row standing, poses outside gates of convent. Non-indigenous and indigenous boys. Youville de St. Albert is written on the drum.

Woman with two children. Girl possibly about to be confirmed.

Titled: Seven women posed with a nun indoors. Two women in front appear to be shelling peas or beans.

Consists of an interview with Watceu, an old man of the Pasqua reserve, who briefly discusses certain marriage taboos.

Saskatchewan diocese in the second worst financial position in Canada due to the expense of dealing with 330 residential school lawsuits.

More than 200 lawsuits pending involving residential schools in the Saskatchewan diocese.

Progress on the Anglican Council of Indigenous People's defining of job terms and mandate of the First Native National Bishop.

Outlines women's traditional roles and discusses how churches and various Canadian government policies and legislation have created their current disadvantaged position.

Discusses the intricacies and nuances of Lakota performances of popular culture. Challenges perspectives which dismiss Indigenous engagement in contemporary culture as mimicry or assimilation, and that portray contemporaneity as opposed to indigeneity.

Comments on the theme of boarding-schools, and the films The Only Good Indian directed by Kevin Wilmott, and The Education of Little Tree directed by Friedenberg and Older Than America directed by Lightning.

Interview with Elder working at the University of British Columbia First Nations House of Learning.

Review of: Mourir et Renaître: La Réception du Christianisme par les Inuit de l’Arctique de l’Est Canadien by Frédéric Laugrand. Review in French.