Photography

A painted overhang at Kipahigan Lake, Manitoba. [Group to South]

File contains a series of negatives from a meeting between Roland Crowe and Civic Officials in Prince Albert. The officials are posing for a portrait in all three. Crowe was Chief of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations at the time, and is on the far left of the negatives. The individual on the far right of all three negatives is Gordon Kirkby, mayor of Prince Albert.

George Lutz recounts stories while living at Mandan, North Dakota and helping his father Rolland produce thousands of postcards of Native Americans. Includes photographs.

A panorama photograph of the Roman Catholic Mission in Onion Lake North West Territories circa 1890. The Church, residential school and outbuildings are visible. A rail fence surrounds the property.

A photograph of the Roman Catholic Residential School in Onion Lake, North West Territories. The Aboriginal girls stand on the left with four nuns, the boys on the right with one priest. The children all wear matching uniforms.

An aerial photograph of the Roman Catholic residential school in Onion Lake, probably taken in the 1950s.

A photograph of the Roman Catholic Residential School, Onion Lake in the 1890s. A large group of students stand in front of the school dressed in western clothing. Several of the girls wear matching dresses. A group of four nuns are at the right, and a priest and two Aboriginal men are at the left. An group of Aboriginal women and their children are seated under a balcony in the background on the right.

Transcript of talk given by Métis photographer and artist in conjunction with the exhibition Steeling the Gaze: Portraits by Aboriginal Artists. Podcast.

Book review of: Rosebud Sioux by Claes H. Jacobson, a compilation of the photographs of John A. Anderson (1869-1948) and modern pictures of the descendants of the original sitters.

Rows of tipis in temporary First Nations village erected at Pion-Era at the Saskatoon Exhibition, July 1959. There is a cooking pit and tri-pod. There is a crowd of people behind a fence observing the Dakota people in the camp. The woman in the striped dress with her hands on hips is likely Pauline Royal of Whitecap Reserve at Moose Woods, while Jewel Littlecrow peeks out from behind a tipi on the left.

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Discusses the issues of transnationalism and its role in contemporary Native American art.

Image of the S.S. Marquis. Written on front of photo at top: "At the close of the Rebellion the Marquis left Fort Pitt for the Grand Rapids at 2:30 on the 4th of July 1885 having on board the following troops. 90th Battalion, Winnipeg Rifles, The Little Black Devils, 232 officers and [illegible]; 10th Royal Grenadiers, Toronto, 190 officers and men; part of the Winnipeg Light Infantry, 50 officers and men; arriving Battleford at 3 a.m., 5th of July, Prince Albert 8:30 a.m.

Image of the S.S. Northcote, first successful steamer, beached at Cumberland House, Saskatchewan.

The Saddle Lake Telegraph Office and Indian Agency (background) circa 1900. Saddle Lake, NWT.

Two salmon seiners at dusk; Prince Rupert, BC.

A photograph of Chief Sam Swimmer making Dr. P. W. Head an honourary Chief (Chief Medicine Knife) at the North Battleford Indian Hospital in December, 1953.

Black and white photo of Indigenous man, "Black Plume" , wearing embroidered coat and holding ceremonial stick. From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.

A photograph in a scrap book (A-792-2) that appears alongside the same photograph as it appeared in a North Battleford newspaper on 7 January 1954. Part of the caption reads: "Indian youngsters from several nearby reserves joining in an impromtu pow wow with Santa Claus. Edwin Awasis, second from left, is "sounding off" on his tom tom." Also in the picture are Douglas Awasis, Raymond Pete, Edgar Pete, Gordon Angus and Charlie Beattie plays Santa.

Staged portrait of Sarcee braves Mutsenamakan and Stumetsekini. Traditional clothing and Mutsenamakan holding tomahawk.

Note: The title of this document uses wording that was common to mainstream society of that time period in history. As such, it contains language that is no longer in common use and may offend some readers. This wording should not be construed to represent the views of the Indigenous Studies Portal or the University of Saskatchewan Library. An image of an Aboriginal woman wrapped in a blanket standing in front of a teepee. Colours have been added to the photograph in a chromolithograph process. The postcard is addressed to Miss Lena Quam, Limerick, Saskatchewan.

Note: The title of this document uses wording that was common to mainstream society of that time period in history. As such, it contains language that is no longer in common use and may offend some readers. This wording should not be construed to represent the views of the Indigenous Studies Portal or the University of Saskatchewan Library. An image of an Aboriginal women wrapped in a blanket and standing next to a horse, which is hitched to a travois. There are teepees in the background and an Aboriginal man seated on a stool.

A photograph of Saskatchewan Indian Cultural College, formerly the Provincial Normal School, 1030 Idylwyld Drive North, formerly Avenue A North, Saskatoon, Sask.

Images of Saskatchewan Metis leaders' meeting on March 30, 1976.

"Saw Pit" for squaring logs for the manufacture of buildings. Taken during the journey of Christina Bateman and Annie McKay from Prince Albert to La Ronge, SK in 1919.

A panoramic photograph of a large Aboriginal camp with many Teepees wagons and horses. The postcard is addressed to Miss Cooke, London, England.

A photograph of the Little Narrows, between Loon Lake and Tullibee Lakes, near the town of Loon Lake, that was the scene of the last fight between Big Bear's Indians and troops during the Rebellion of 1885. See Star-Phoenix of October 23, 1947.

Looks at the systemization of identity, based on race, through examination her photographs of students.

Image of five scows travelling across Great Slave Lake, NWT.

Photograph of "an Indian Buffalo stone".

Book review of: The Sea Women: Sedna in Inuit Shamanism and Art in the Eastern Arctic by Frederic Laugrand, Jarich Oosten.

Website traces the evolution of village life with historical photographs and information selected from Secwepemc Museum and Heritage Park exhibit.

Two Indigenous women in traditional dress standing on either side of Herb Sellin portrait of John Diefenbaker in Calgary.

Looks at photographs appearing in the magazine from 1990 to 2010 using the coding factors of look, appearance, activities, surroundings and use of technology. Bachelor thesis towards an undergraduate degree in International Migration and Ethnic Relations--Malmö University, 2019.

The individual in the photograph is on guard duty at a sentry post at Prince Albert, NWT, 1885. A few possibilities exist for what this photograph represents. It appears to be a Northwest Mounted Police man (note the pith helmet), or less likely, a member of the Prince Albert Volunteers, or the Prince Albert Home Guard taken during the "siege" of Prince Albert.

A set of 11 photographs of Calvin McKenzie setting a snare. Snaring animals, fish, and birds has been a way of securing food for thousands of years in northern Saskatchewan. Even today many people use snares to catch food when living in the bush.

Seven Cree children at La Ronge. Taken during the journey of Christina Bateman and Annie McKay from Prince Albert to La Ronge, SK in 1919.

Aboriginal shacks and tents near Churchill, Manitoba in 1955.

Reviews an exhibition exploring the photographic representation of Native North Americans from the 1850s to the present.

Exhibition mounted by the Saskatchewan Arts Board. Includes two essays, a list of works and artist's statements, biographies and a digital re-creation of the exhibition. Artists exhibited: Richard Agecoutay, Bob Boyer, Dennis Bruce, S. Ruth Cuthand, Sherry Farrell, Ray Keighley, Ann McLean, Janice M. Morin, Sheila Orr, Edward Poitras, Celina Ritter, Kathleen Wasacase-Janzen, Jerry Whitehead.

Black and white photograph of a group of non-indigenous men in cowboy costumes with man in traditional indigenous dress in middle.

Black and white photograph of a group of non-indigenous men in cowboy costumes seated on red river cart with teepees in background.

Listing of the sites and installation dates as well as brief information on the artists participating in this exhibition held in Barrie, Ontario and sponsored by the MacLaren Art Centre.

Book review of: Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan.

Comments on a photographers' work, subject matter and contest awards. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 12.

A photograph of a Dakota (Sioux) Chief in Prince Albert, likely sometime in the latter half of the nineteenth century. The Chief is seated on a horse in traditional garb, flanked by two other Dakota people, with carriages and a building in evidence in the background.

Sioux Dance (probably Wahpeton Dakota people) in the Prince Albert district, NWT. Pictured is a large group of Aboriginal men and women in ceremonial clothing.

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Sioux Dance (probably Wahpeton Dakota people) in Prince Albert, NWT [1901]. Pictured is a large group of Aboriginal men and women in ceremonial clothing dancing on main street while white settlers look on.

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Series of color lithograph printed post-cards of Oglala Sioux Wild West show performers with accompanying descriptions.

Postcards and descriptions of Chief Tall Crane, Skin Cote, Yellow Hair, Bear Goes In the Wood, Lone Wolf and Chief Blackhawk.

Three Sioux pipes collected by W.D. Wallis in 1914. Portage La Prairie, MB.