Christianity

A photograph of students and staff in front of the Indian Industrial School at Battleford. Photograph shows the new east wing added in 1889. Religious and academic subjects, trade courses and a physical education program were included in the curriculum. The students at the far right hold musical instruments (trumpet, bass drum and snare drum are partially visible).

Sixty-three elders' interviews from the Treaty 8 area were reviewed for references to land, and of these, all but fourteen contain some sort of statement about land.

Author uses various anthropological and historical sources to throw some light on the way in which the Indians of the Treaty 6 and 7 regions might have interpreted the treaty promises.

"This paper examines processes of cultural contact and change in the Canadian western Arctic resulting from the dual impacts of the fur trade and of missionary activities between 1850 and 1940."

Discusses nine religious or supernatural topics from Elders' perspectives.

Religious Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--McMaster University, 2000.

Contends that those who worked with the residential school system believed that they were saving the souls of the children and caring for them as best they could.

Theology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Marquette University, 1978.

Discusses the history of one group of Indians from southern Arizona who embraced the Christian devil cosmology and related theories of sickness and cure.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2003.

Recalls struggles, both in the past and currently, to retain local Pueblo control of what is considered the source of all Taos life.

[American Studies] Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNY), 2000.

Brief description of commandments painted on the walls of Christ Church Anglican, The Pas, Manitoba.

Book review of: That the People Might Live by Arnold Krupat.

Discusses how Native Americans viewed, incorporated, and used Christianity.

Describes Jesuit Claude Allouez and 17th missioning among the Native Americans of Illinois.

History Thesis (M.A.)--Simon Fraser University, 1981.

He talks about traditional lifestyle while growing up in northern Saskatchewan and compares life today with life when he was a child.

Political Science Thesis (Ph.D.)--Louisiana State University, 2016.

Three articles on missionary life, the first describing events of Christmas 1888 in Bella Bella, BC. The second article is a letter from Rev. John Nelson, dated 7 March 1889, discussing the Mountain Stoney Aboriginal population present in the Saskatchewan District. The third article is a letter from Rev. A.E. Green, dated 11 February 1889, concerning the frustration relating to the land issue in the Naas River, BC, area.

Looks at the organization of Indian society, the connection between rural and urban people and the opinion of young people in western Oklahoma.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Johns Hopkins University, 1990.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta, 2005.

Investigates the differences between females from progressive mixed-blood families and those from traditional families, with uneducated backgrounds.

Looks at the history and themes in Indigenous literatures, and the culturally authentic voice found in those themes.

Looks at the correlation between language knowledge, suicide rates and religion. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 73.

Argues that Indigenous peoples bought more European goods from the Hudson's Bay Company post as fur prices went up, and also increased trapping for trade purposes.

Discusses issues of ethnicity and identity in Native American communities.

Discusses five themes that were identified from the interviews: hunger, sharing, gathering, medicine and religion.

Book review: Transmission Difficulties by Ralph Maud.

Discusses the important role Father Constantine Scollen played prior to the signing of Treaty 7, and his efforts in encouraging First Nations leaders to petition for a treaty with the British Crown.

Remarks by Marie Wilson, Truth and Reconciliation of Canada Commissioner, including how the Canadian TRC is unique to others in the world and the mandate and purpose of the TRC. Followed by excerpts from survivors stories. Duration: 30:19.

Book review of: Amongst God's Own by Terry Glavin.

History and Classics Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alberta, 2010.

Discusses the history of La Tuque School in Quebec, which ran from 1962 to 2006. It was one of the last church run schools to open before the government took over management of residential schools in 1969.

Chronological list of the United Church's apologies to various Aboriginal groups and First Nations Peoples.

Review article of seven books: Aboriginal Australians and Christian Missions: Ethnographic and Historical Studies edited by Tony Swain and Deborah Bird Rose. Christianity and Aboriginal Australia by John Harris. I'd Rather Dig Potatoes: Clamor Schurmann and the Aborigines of South Australia, 1838-1853by Edwin A. Schurmann. Black Robinson: Protector of Aborigines by Vivienne Rae-Ellis. Thomas Dove and the Tasmanian Aborigines by R. S. Miller. Dark Deeds in a Sunny Land or Blacks and Whites in North-West Australia by J. B.

Church in background.

Article draws on the journals of Guardian of Aborigines William Thomas in New South Wales to describe and examine corroborees (Indigenous spiritual ceremonies) taking place in the early 1850s. Author considers the role of syncretism in Indigenous peoples’ process of understanding European systems of belief.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta, 2008.

A photograph in a scrap book (A-792-2) that shows Santa (Charlie Beattie) with an unknown Native girl at the North Battleford Indian Hospital 25 December 1953.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Montreal, 2017.

Theological Studies Thesis (MTS)--University of Waterloo and Conrad Grebel University College, 2014.

Book review of: Vancouver Island Letters of Edmund Hope Verney, 1862-1865 edited by Allan Pritchard.

The author explores different expressions of conversion to Catholicism in the daily practices of the different Indigenous peoples in the San Francisco Bay area; considers where people chose to give birth or die and the practice of various traditional protocols.

Consists of an interview where Verna Patronella Johnston speaks of uses for traditional foods and medicines. She also gives an account of Grandma Jones, a storyteller.

Verna Richards ran the La Ronge Cafe in the 1950s and 1960s. She knew many of the local people including Brady and Norris.