Photography

Black and white photograph of a line of Aboriginal people on horseback participating in a parade at Fort Macleod. They wear traditional clothing and the horses pull travois.

Image of a long line of horses and buggies taken from the rear of the procession. No Aboriginal people are clearly visible in the picture.

Database with a searchable online photograph collection, including by subject, date, location and tribe. The database attempts to provide students, researchers and the general public with direct access to primary material on the Plains Indian cultures.

Presents photographs from the Fort Hall Indian Reservation in 1887 during the Presbyterian Mission.

File contains 12 negatives depicting a city-wide "Indian Playground" held as part of the City of Prince Albert's summer playgrounds program involving all city playgrounds. 2 scanned negatives show playground events (poor quality images).

Four Aboriginal men on horseback preparing to race at the Cannington Manor track. The photographer has written on the back: "The Indian Pony race was a great event at the Cannington Races - a definite sporting event in the western calendar. The big English houses put up the guests. During the year racing ponies up the village street was a mail day pastime."

42 images (10 scanned here) of First Nations people of all ages, leaders and elders taking part in Pow-wow ceremonies in Saskatoon on December 29, 1979.

File contains 8 negatives from an unspecified Pow Wow in Prince Albert, SK held on June 24, 1961.

Indian pow-wow at Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, July 1, 1905. A large group of Aboriginal people stand in background with seven men around a pow-wow drum in foreground.

A First Nations Pow-wow in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, 1908.

This photograph shows what is purported to be an Indian pow-wow on Broad Street in Regina taken circa 1885. Some have presumed that this was taken at the time of Louis Riel's trial, although the Archives Board is unable to confirm this. The photo shows a large crowd of non-Aboriginal people watching a pow-wow drum group. Pow-wow dancers are seated nearby. The Mowat Brothers store on Broad Street is in the background.

Image of Powwow. Indigenous people of all ages gathered in a circle, some seated some standing, a few on horseback. Town buildings in background. One dancer holds the Union Jack. Published for W.H. Hunter. [Local Druggist and owner of Hunter's Drugs, Qu'Appelle. Postmarked 1906.

Twelve photographs (11 scanned here) of Aboriginal protestors at the Department of Indian Affairs office in Saskatoon on October 10, 1973.

A side/rear view of a man on a horse riding down a dirt street in Yorkton. He wears a broad brim hat and has a pony tail.

File contains 2 negatives of a painting behind a Church Altar at a school (presumably All Saints Residential School), Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, December 14, (year illegible, presumably 1950s-1960s).

File contains 9 negatives showing a new dormitory at the All Saints Residential School/Prince Albert Indian Residence on June 15 of an unidentified year. Scanned image shows the frontal profile of the new building.

A photograph of the view across the river of the Indian Industrial School in Battleford (left side).

Historical note:

The building was formerly Government House. Taken over as the Indian Residential School in 1883, and remained that until 1914. First principal was Thomas Clarke. The building was given heritage designation in 1984.

An image of several houses behind a stockade style fence. Colours have been added to the photograph in a chromolithograph process.

A photograph of an exterior view of Sundance Lodge including people seated around outside of lodge and circle of tents and campers around perimeter. Probably near Saskatoon.

A photograph of an exterior view of Sundance Lodge of people seated around the outside of the lodge. Probably near Saskatoon.

A photograph of an exterior view of Sundance Lodge including people seated around outside of lodge and circle of tents and campers around perimeter. Probably near Saskatoon.

A photograph of a man standing outside the wall of a [Cree?] Sundance Lodge, probably near Saskatoon.

A photograph titled Indian Sweat tents. Probably taken near The Pas, Manitoba circa 1930s.

Historical note:

Ernest J. Morris (1905-2004) was a lumberman who lived and worked near the reserve (Opaskwayak?) at The Pas, Manitoba ca. 1930s-1940s.

A First Nations Tipi and Drying Rack, probably somewhere in Saskatchewan in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century. No date given.

An image of an several teepees in a long line in a grassy field. Most of the teepees are completely white, however, one at the extreme right has a red top and pictographs on the side. There are a few empty wagons, two horses and two people visible amongst the teepees. There are some shrubs in the foreground and small trees in the background. Colours have been added to the picture in a chromolithograph process.

An image of a totem pole standing in front of a large wooden building. There are five Aboriginal children dressed in western style clothes standing at the base of the pole.

An image of a totem pole standing on a wooden bridge structure. The picture appears to be a composite of chromolithograph and colour illustration techniques. The totem appears to be at the entrance to the Capilano suspension bridge.

An close-up image of three totem poles in a village. There are buildings, large pole structures and trees in the background. An boy is visible in the bottom left corner.

An image of a boardwalk in a small village. Totem poles are visible along the wooden walkway at the front of several buildings. There is a small boat on the walkway which indicates it may be a wharf in a fishing community.

Indian trappers taking a noon break, boiling muskrat for lunch.

Two trappers, with their dogs, in a canoe, bringing in furs that were trapped during the spring.

A photograph an Aboriginal woman carrying one child and followed by at least two others near a gazebo-like structure at the Wilkie, Sask., Fair in 1921.

Indian women and children seated in shade of impromptu shelter of teepee poles draped with cloth or leather on side of an ox-cart. Inscribed - in the lee of a Red River cart. One woman holds infant bundled in papoose-fashion. She may be same woman shown in photo LH 246. Probably taken near Saskatoon.

File contains 2 negatives of a panel discussion group from the Indian Youth Heritage Days conference (presumably in Prince Albert, SK) on July 3, 1985.

File contains 3 negatives of a tipi village from the Indian Youth Heritage Days conference (presumably in Prince Albert, SK) on July 3, 1985.

Looks at a variety of "painter-reporters" who made invaluable contributions to history by capturing life on the frontier in the 19th century.

An image of a long parade of Aboriginal men on horseback in ceremonial regalia. Blackfoot Indians at a parade in Lethbridge. Colours have been added to the picture in a chromolithograph process. The postcard appears to be dated 21 June 1902, but this not clear.

Two Aboriginal men seated in foreground, dog and tent in background.

Aboriginal youth posing for camera; two young men standing in back, smaller children seated on ground. Summer scene.

An image of a small camp next to a river, probably the Bow River in southern Alberta. There is a teepee structure with no covering, a Red River style cart, several horses, and one woman stands alone at the far left.

[Haida] ceremony being performed for Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Connaught. Performer in middle, drummers on left and right; crowd in background.

A photograph of a group of Aboriginal men performing a traditional ceremony, taken in Prince Albert, NWT [1901]. They wear traditional clothing, and some hold long narrow sticks. They are probably Dakota people from Wahpeton.

Historical note:

A photograph of an Aboriginal couple riding in their Red River cart on corner of 2nd Ave and 20th street in Saskatoon, Sask. The Bank of Hamilton is in the background.

Canoe with Aboriginal men camped in background. Date and location unknown, probably early twentieth century.

Author comments on the exhibition mounted by the Canadian Museum of Civilization in 1992 and issues concerning the Aboriginal artistic community in general, such as being the subject or object, rather than the observer.

Developed from papers presented at the 2009 AIATSIS National Indigenous Studies Conference and the 2010 Symposium, Information Technologies and Indigenous Communities.

A photograph of a teepee structure set up as a fish drying rack. There is a covering on the back half of the teepee and a group of people seated inside. On the back of the photo is written: Salt River in the Northwest.

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.