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A family in front of a house on the John Smith (now Muskoday) Reserve in August 1942. Includes children and a dog.

A Family with their Pion-Era baby, Bernice, at Saskatoon in 1960.

A photograph of the farm home of Indian Agent, W.R. Tucker on Moose Woods Reserve. Standing: Mr. & Mrs. Tucker, in sleigh: Mr. & Mrs. D. Stanley King, in front of sleigh: Alfred A., Nora and Kathleen Tucker.

Image of the father of Almighty Voice, Senikensic or John Sounding Sky, and the mother, Many Colors or Spotted Calf.

Photograph depicting two local Inuit with Father Henri, and Brother Paradis.

File contains 16 negatives from the election of Roland Crowe as the new Chief of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations on October 7, 1986.

File contains 2 negatives from a Federation of Saskatchewan Indians Conference held at the old Coronet Hotel in Prince Albert, SK, on November 14, 1967. The two images show conference participants posing.

File contains 2 negatives from a Federation of Saskatchewan Indians Meeting held in 1969, presumably in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.

File contains 2 negatives of a guest speaker and two other unidentified inviduals at a meeting of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indians (presumably in Prince Albert, SK) on October 28, 1969.

Cutting up seal meat for dogs. Northeast Devon Island, N.W.T. [NU].

Side view of child. Caption by Dommasch: "Tuktoyaktuk (NWT) April 1989".

Child holding one dog on a chain in foreground., with another standing in background. Caption by Dommasch: "Cornwallis Island, Resolute [NU] Native Settlement".

Black and White photograph Fine Day in farmer's clothing.

Photograph of Chief Fine Day posing with rifle and wearing battle dress. Caption: "War chief Fine Day of the Strike-Him-on-the-Back band directed the Cree counter-attack at the Cut Knife battle." From the book Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion by Blair Stonechild and Bill Waiser.

A close up portrait of Fine Day on horseback. Fine Day was Poundmaker's Chief Warrior at the Battle of Cut Knife Hill during the Riel Rebellion of 1885. He is shown wearing an elaborate headpiece mounted with buffalo horns and trimmed with weasel skins. Fine Day died on January 8, 1942 at the age of 94.

Slides appear to be a series of 14 images in a slide show about Canada's North. On slide: "Drum Rhythms Arctic Winter Games"

Slides appear to be a series of 14 images in a slide show about Canada's North. On slide: "Drum Rhythms Arctic Winter Games" In the picture is John Munro, Minister of Amateur Sport.

Slides appear to be a series of 14 images in a slide show about Canada's North. On slide: "Harpoon Toss Arctic Winter Games"

Slides appear to be a series of 14 images in a slide show about Canada's North. On slide: "Ayagag Event Arctic Winter Games"

Depicts Inuit Blanket Toss. On slide: "Arctic Games"

Slides appear to be a series of 14 images in a slide show about Canada's North. On slide: "Harpoon Toss Arctic Winter Games"

Slides appear to be a series of 14 images in a slide show about Canada's North. On slide: "Arctic Games"

Photograph of athlete performing one hand reach. On slide: "Arctic Games"

Slides appear to be a series of 14 images in a slide show about Canada's North. On slide: "Harpoon Toss Arctic Winter Games"

Slides appear to be a series of 14 images in a slide show about Canada's North. On slide: "'Ayagag' Event Arctic Winter Games"

Slides appear to be a series of 14 images in a slide show about Canada's North. On slide: "Arctic Games"

Slides appear to be a series of 14 images in a slide show about Canada's North. On slide: "Harpoon Toss Arctic Winter Games".

Slides appear to be a series of 14 images in a slide show about Canada's North. On slide: "Native Dancers Arctic Winter Games"

Slides appear to be a series of 14 images in a slide show about Canada's North. On slide: "Drum Rhythms Arctic Winter Games"

A photograph of unidentified First Nations Chiefs meeting in Prince Albert, SK, May 19, 1971.

First Nations men in traditional dress dancing on stage at Pion-Era, Saskatoon, 1958.

Three young First Nations men, and two women all dressed in traditional clothing outside a tipi, probably at the Saskatoon Exhibition grounds in July 1943.

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Three First Nations men outside a tipi, at the unveiling of the North-West Mounted Police memorial on June 24, 1928.

First Nations people in feather head-dresses and other traditional garb, on an outdoor stage in front of an elaborate stage set. An article in the Star-Phoenix July 22, 1943 describes a ceremony on stage in front of the grandstand, in which Sid Johns, secretary-manager of the Exhibition, was inducted into the tribe of Sioux Indians and made an [honorary] Indian chief, by Chief Harry Littlecrow. Johns was named Chief Fine Weather.

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A postcard featuring four First Nations youth in ceremonial clothing standing a hill overlooking the South Saskatchewan River on a bright summer day. Saskatchewan is written on the front.

An Inuk man fishing in the traditional style; location unknown. Part of the "Inuit of Keewatin" series (#22).

One Caucasian, four Inuit. Duplicate of BW Currie slide # 25.

A photograph of four Aboriginal men and a young boy (probably all Wahpeton Dakota) posing for the camera in the Prince Albert District, NWT [1901]. The boy stands in a Red River style cart and there is a teepee in the background.

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Portrait of Flying Buffalo of the Dakota (Sioux).

Three-quarters length portrait of Flying Buffalo of the Dakota (Sioux), taken in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. He is wearing a feathered headdress and holding aloft a stick, highly decorated with feathers. His leggings show extensive, detailed beadwork.

Father Charles Gamache recalls fifty-four years in Fond du Lac. Page one: portrait of Father Charles Gamache and Brother Jean Marie Labonte. Page two: picture of church.

File contains a programme of the dedication of a memorial cairn at Fort Dufferin, Manitoba on October 6, 1949. It was hosted by The Historical & Scientific Society of Manitoba in cooperation with the RCMP. "The Westward Trek of the North-West Mounted Police, July, 1874."

A photograph of three men and a young boy posing in front of a horse drawn wagon loaded with canoes. The Red Earth Reserve trading post is in the background. The elevated man is identified as Matthew McKay and one of the others as perhaps a Garvin. Photo was taken in early spring before they went out trapping. Nd, perhaps 1930 to 1950?

A photograph of Four Indian men in front of cabin in working clothes with axes.

Standing in front of wooden building with long stairway.

Four people, one apparently in the air force, discussing traditional Inuit Caribou clothing in Churchill, Manitoba.

A photograph of four Aboriginal men (probably all Wahpeton Dakota) posing for the camera in the Prince Albert District, NWT [1901]. They wear western style clothes and cowboy hats. Two of them wear traditional beaded necklaces, and one holds a rifle. From left to right they are Naji, or Standing, Omani or Walking, Hanyetumani or Night Walking, and Falling Water (Dakota translation unclear).--Source of names, Charmbury Family--See SAB.

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Photograph. Caption: One of the fugitive Indians (possibly Four Sky Thunder) who surrendered at Battleford instead of fleeing to the United States. From the book Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion by Blair Stonechild and Bill Waiser.

Image of Father Louis Cochin, O.M.I. At the time of the 1885 Rebellion, Father Louis Cochin was a Catholic missionary to the Cree Indians in the Battleford district. He was taken prisoner by Poundmaker. From the book Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion by Blair Stonechild and Bill Waiser.

Frank McIntyre of Patuanak shares various stories about life in the Patuanak region. Page one, Frank McIntyre and his family in 1935. Page two, Frank McIntyre standing on the grounds of the Patuanak rectory.