Indian & Northern Affairs Canada (INAC)

John Emms was an Indian agent for the federal government. He talks about work in the Kamsack area as a community development officer. He also disusses attitudes within the Indian Affairs department and the CCF/NDP governments' plans for the Indian and Metis peoples of Saskatchewan.

Examines the Indian Agent's efforts to manage failures and contradictions of Indian administration and the Secwepemc resistance to departmental intervention.

John M. Cuelenaere, Minister of National Resources and Indian Affairs. Taken Nov. 4, 1964.

FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Contents include historical documents, annotated indexes, reports, correspondence/letters and the Final Report in both French and English. [These files were created and compiled by the ICC and provided to the Indigenous Studies Portal in 2009 to make widely available in online format.]

An interview with Kate Assinewe who gives an account of her life. Interpreter: Ernest Debassigae ; transcriber: Joanne Greenwood.

Discusses the need for a new Canadian Indigenous policy based upon a collaboration between the Federal government and Indigenous communities.

Book review of: Best Left as Indians: Native-White Relations in the Yukon Territory, 1840-1973 by Ken Coates.

FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Contents include historical documents, transcripts, maps, legal papers, reports, submissions, and the Final Report in both French and English. [These files were created and compiled by the ICC and provided to the Indigenous Studies Portal in 2009 to make widely available in online format.]

Final Report examines whether the claim of the Key Lake First Nations discloses a breach of Canada's "lawful obligations" to the First Nation under the Specific Claims Policy. Commissioners include: P. E. James Prentice, Carole T. Corcoran, and Roger J. Augustine. [These files were created and compiled by the ICC and provided to the Indigenous Studies Portal in 2009 to make widely available in online format.]

Compares the same anonymous First Nation community during the 1960s and 1990s; and explores the effectiveness of current culture ethnicity theories.

Agreement signed on 19th February 2005 includes provisions regarding land set aside, land and water management, surface rights, natural resources matters, taxation, dispute resolution etc.

Discusses severe restrictions pressed for by environmentalists concerning use of the Lake after the Ontario First Nation established a viable tourist industry.

Reports that the Department of Indian Affairs capped First Nation funding for core services at two percent a year and its impact.

Two presentations: "The Need for a Unique Métis Claims Process - Minister's Special Representative Report (2016) on Métis Section 35 Rights" and "Métis Scrip: A Claim Against the Crown". Followed by question and answer period. Duration: 1:54:44.

Federal government meets with an all Chiefs delegation from Saskatchewan in Ottawa.

A photograph of a large group of mainly Aboriginal people outside the Onion Lake Indian Agency house circa 1890. They are all formally dressed including the three non-Aboriginal men sitting on the ground at the right. Perhaps Dominion Day or Treaty Day.

Lawrence Tobacco, born 1919, on the Poor Man Reserve, Saskatchewan He attended a residential school and is now involved in traditional education and counseling. He talks about farming and raising cattle on the Poor Man Reserve; shares a story of a trip he took to Winnipeg to sell cattle for a number of reserves in the File Hills area, and how Indian Affairs officials tried to bribe him with part of the proceeds of the sale; shares stories of defiance toward Dept.

Photograph of Deputy Superintendent General, Indian Branch, Department of the Interior, from 1874 to 1893. From the book Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion by Blair Stonechild and Bill Waiser.

Looks at the policies that impact or relate to medical relocation, the estimated number of individuals who relocate for medical reasons, and community medical facilities.

Concludes that band councils cannot exclude off-reserve members from receiving their fair share of any per capita distribution of money. Entire issue on one pdf. Scroll to page 1 to locate article.

Political Science Thesis (M.A.)--University of Regina, 2012.

Study determined the successes or failures of the design and implementation of the response to the Settlement Agreement.

Includes extensive appendices of statements from chiefs and religious representatives attached to the letter expressing expressing concerns about a wide range of issues including government policy application, conduct and breach of promises by Indian Agents, relationship between missionaries, government and Indian Agents, potlatch law, survey of First Nations lands, Commission and other matters.

A photocopy of a letter sent by Indian agent Thomas Quinn of Frog Lake to farm instructor George G. Mann of Onion Lake on 31 March 1885. It reads: "Dear Mann - Messenger [that] hand you this letter is sent by me to tell some of your Indians to come here to have a talk and try and keep all quiet here. If any wish to come give them grub enough to come with to here. All quiet here and no danger. I will be down on the 2nd. Faithfully T. T. Quinn."

Response to article published by the Toronto Daily Mail on April 19, 1886. Specifically refers to "illicit intercourse with Indian women". Also includes letter to the editor of The Toronto Daily Mail.

Analyzes Indian Agents' responses in 1897 about administrative decisions and confrontations about fishing places, gear, licences and "closed-season" fishing by First Nations; argues Agents conserved fish for settlers and assimilated First Nation fishers into state management practices and extending so-called privileges.

Book review of: Liberalism, Surveillance, and Resistance: Indigenous Communities in Western Canada, 1877-1927 by Keith D. Smith.

Relates the circumstances which led to two adhesions being cut, stitched and glued together.

Analysis of the written Act from public administration and political science perspective, without the context of application or important court decisions.

Discusses distribution and delays of the new Secure Status Indian Cards to Buffalo Point First Nation.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.10.

The file contains a blank ledger issued to Indian Agents during the 1920s for reserve livestock censuses. Historical note: Harold Nelson Woodsworth served as an Indian Agent at a number of agencies in Saskatchewan.

She was born on the Little Pine Reserve, the first girl from that reserve to attend high school. She tells of some childhood memories; naming ceremonies; significance of Indian names; the training of children, especially girls; menarche seclusion; women: influence of, in religion and ceremonialism, pregnancy; her education: traditional; experiences in Anglican boarding school (integrated) in Saskatoon; training for roles as wife and mother.

Discusses the history of First Nation relations in Canada and the United States and why they developed differently.

Looks at policies and legislation focusing on the health care system, jurisdictional divide, information gaps and self-government activities.

An interview which discusses the signing of Treaty 8: understanding of promises made, the establishment of Wood Buffalo Natural Park, and the need for a reserve at Fort Chipewyan for trapping and hunting.

Book review of: Made in Nunavut by Jack Hicks and Graham White.

Provides a Treasury Board Portfolio assessment of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada performance.

Looks into the longest standing and most prestigious award for First Nation athletes in Canada.

Book review of: Making Native Space by Cole Harris.

Overview of the Committee activities effecting the Northwest Territories during a time of social change.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Victoria, 2016.

Illustrates how Indian agents were responsible for the interpretation and implementation of Indian policy and could influence decision-making through their field knowledge.

Map published by the Canadian Department of Indian Affairs showing territory ceded under Treaty 8 and the First Nations living therein.

Three elders from Goodfish Lake Reserve talk about problems of defining accurate boundaries, their rights to a timber berth, and hay meadows which they believe are part of their reserve.

Mark Wolfleg talks about the Blackfoot interpretation of the terms of Treaty #7; also the roles of the Crowfoot and a group of Metis in taking Treaty #7. He also talks about his overseas experiences during World War II.

Mary Whiteford, a chief of the Horse Lakes reserve, describes how her ancestors took treaty and how the treaty promises were broken.

Author examines the discrepancies between the Human Rights Act and the Indian Act regarding matrimonial property laws and reserve land.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.12.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of New Brunswick, 2006.