The Indian Title Question in Canada: An Appraisal in the Light of Calder. - K. Lysyk. - Reprint. - September 1973.

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Kenneth Lysyk
Description
The author, Deputy Attorney General of Saskatchewan, gives his personal views on the Calder vs. Attorney General of British Columbia legal case that established that Aboriginal title exists in modern Canadian law. The Calder case related to the Nishgas (Nisga'a) land claim in northwestern British Columbia. Item found within folder 'XXXII-39'.

Historical note:

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Indian Treaties in Historical Perspective

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
George Brown
Ron Maguire
Description

Includes extensive chronology (1497-1978), list of treaties and grants, and brief summaries of activities in each of the provinces and territories.

2nd edition.

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The Indian Treaties of the North West

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Douglas Kemp
Manitoba Pageant, vol. 5, no. 3, April 1960, p. [?]
Description
Brief description of theTreaties that were concluded between 1871 and 1877.
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Indian Tribes of Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
C. M. Barbeau
Man, vol. 13, 1913, pp. 122-127
Description
Focuses on problems of lack of understanding about many aspects of Aboriginal peoples at the beginning of the 20th century.
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Indian Unity

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
J. E. Officer
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 3, no. 3, May 1964, pp. [1-8]
Description
Discusses changes in education statistics, local government and the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
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Indian-White Relations in Early America: A Review Essay

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bernard W. Sheehan
The William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 2, Third Series, April 1969, pp. 267-286
Description
Reviews historic relationship with Native Americans through works by Helen Hunt Jackson, Annie Abel, William N. Fenton, Grant Foreman and Wilcomb E. Washburn.
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“The Indian Who Bombed Berlin”: German Encounters in Ralph Salisbury’s Work – Modulating Modern Precariousness

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Cathy Covell Waegner
Transmotion, vol. 6, no. 1, June 21, 2020, pp. 97-130
Description
Literary criticism article which focuses on various ways that Salisbury’s work deals thematically with Germans and Germany. Compares and contrasts this engagement with Gerald Vizenor's in Blue Ravens: Historical Novel (2014) and Drew Hayden Taylor's in The Berlin Blues, a 2007 play.
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Indian Women as Cultural Mediators

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Clara Sue Kidwell
Ethnohistory, vol. 39, no. 2, Spring, 1992, pp. 97-107
Description
Comments on the roles Native American women played in relations between the cultures of two worlds.
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The Indianization of Lewis and Clark

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Clarissa W. Confer
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 4, Fall, 2013, pp. 253-254
Description
Book review of: The Indianization of Lewis and Clark by William Swagerty.
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The Indianness of Louise Erdrich's The Beet Queen: Latency as Presence

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dennis M. Walsh
Ann Braley
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 3, 1994, pp. 1-17
Description
Explains how Louise Erdrich uses "survival humor" to compare a white world that is spirituality bankrupt, with no meaningful tradition and ceremony, to that of the Ojibway culture that tends to have coherent meaning.
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Indians and Open-Ended Political Rationality

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Neal Mcleod
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 13, no. 1, Spring, 1998, pp. 53-71
Description
Investigates the lived experiences of First Nation scholars in mainstream society and the politcal realities they deal with.
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Indians and Other Americans at Center Stage

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Roger L. Nichols
Journal of American Ethnic History, vol. 15, no. 4, Summer, June 1, 1996, pp. 53-59
Description
Book review of: The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization by Daniel K. Richter, A Country Between: The Upper Ohio Valley and its Peoples by Michael C. McConnell, The Dividing Paths: Cherokees and South Carolinians Through the Era of Revolution by Tom Hatley, The Founders of America: How Indians Discovered... by Francis Jennings.
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The Indians and the Crown: Aboriginal Memories of Royal Promises in Pacific Canada

Alternate Title
Majesty in Canada: Essays on the Role of Royalty
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Keith Thor Carlson
Description
Looks at Native-newcomer relations in BC through various meetings and delegations of Aboriginal elders to the British Crown. Chapter from Majesty in Canada: Essays on the Role of Royalty edited by Colin MacMillan Coates. Find page 68 to read chapter.
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Indians, Archaeology and the Changing World

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Eldon Yellowhorn
Native Studies Review, vol. 11, no. 2, 1996, pp. 23-50
Description

Examines the past and present relationship between academics and the Aboriginal community and discusses the issue of repatriation of cultural property and human remains.

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"Indians dancing on Yorkton Street"

Images » Photographs
Description
First Nations men in traditional dress dancing on a Yorkton, Saskatchewan street in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century (no date provided).
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The Indians in the War of 1812

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
George F. G. Stanley
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 31, no. 2, June 1950, pp. 145-165
Description
Discusses strategies used by the British and Americans to try to form successful alliances and the role First Nations played in various campaigns and battles.
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Indians, Incorporated

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael A. Elliott
American Literary History, vol. 19, no. 1, Spring, 2007, pp. 141-159
Description
Chronicles the relationship between Indigenous peoples and the American state through a discussion of five books and concludes increased Indigenous presence requires critical historical awareness of the state.
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Indians - Indian Act

Documents & Presentations
Description
File contains a brief entitled "Help Indians Help Themselves", and a copy of the Indian Act as it existed in 1950, as well as a copy of Chapter 149 of the Indian Act as it existed in 1952.
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Indians, Land, and Identity in Washington (or, Why Cross-Border Shop): A Review Essay

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Paige Raibmon
BC Studies, no. 124, Politics and Planning, Winter, 1999/2000, pp. 93-98
Description
Book review of: Indians, Fire, and the Land in the Pacific Northwest edited by Robert Boyd. An Anchored Radiance by Jay Miller. Beyond the Reservation: Indians, Settlers, and the Law in Washington Territory, 1853-1889 by Brad Asher. Indians in the Making: Ethnic Relations and Indian Identities around Puget Sound by Alexandra Harmon. Pardon Me If When I Talk Want to Tell the Story of My Life It's the Land I Talk About by Pablo Neruda.
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Indians of British Columbia - Booklet. - 1969.

Alternate Title
Indians of British Columbia: An Historical Review
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development
Description
Federal government publication relating to Aboriginal life in British Columbia, covering areas such as pre-contact, explorers and traders, colonization, missions, post-Confederation, education and economic development.
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Indians of British Columbia. - Booklet. - November 1964.

Alternate Title
Indians of British Columbia: An Historical Review
Archival » Archival Items
Author/Creator
Indian Affairs Branch
Department of Citizenship and Immigration
Description
Federal government publication relating to Aboriginal life in British Columbia, covering areas such as pre-contact, explorers and traders, colonization, missions, post-Confederation, education and economic development.
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Indians of Southern Maryland

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Samuel R. Cook
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 215-216
Description

Book review of: Indians of Southern Maryland by Rebecca Seib and Helen C. Rountree.

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Indians of the Prairie Provinces / (An Historical Review)

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (DIAND)
Description
Federal government review of Aboriginal life in the prairie provinces, covering areas such as pre-contact, explorers and traders, introduction of the horse, colonization, treaties, missionaries, the Northwest Resistance and education.
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Indians of the Yukon and the Northwest Territories - Booklet. - March 1966.

Archival » Archival Items
Author/Creator
Canada. Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development
Description
Federal government publication relating to Aboriginal life in the Yukon and Northwest Territories, covering areas such as pre-contact, explorers and traders, Confederation to World War I, World War I to World War II, post-war years, missions and education.
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Indians of Yukon and Northwest Territories - Booklet. - March 1967.

Archival » Archival Items
Author/Creator
Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development
Description
Federal government publication relating to Aboriginal life in the Yukon and Northwest Territories, covering areas such as pre-contact, explorers and traders, Confederation to World War I, World War I to World War II, post-war years, missions and education.
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Les Indiens du Canada / Document de consultation - January 1968.

Archival » Archival Items
Author/Creator
Ministre des Affaires Indiennes et du Nord Canadien
Description
This document, in French, describes aspects of Aboriginal life in Canada, including history, settlement location, administration, treaties, legal status, economic development and education.
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