First Nations & Reserves

Interview with the respected storyteller and singer Antoine Lonesinger. Interview includes the Legend of Cut Knife Hill and stories of BlackRock and Chokecherry Wood.

The interview includes the story of a Cree boy who becomes a Blackfoot Chief.

Interview includes two stories: the first about a boy who saves a boy and wins a wife in the process; a second about a boy who upon returning to his band with a wife becomes chief.

Antoine Lonesinger discusses different methods of earning a living that included making charcoal and lime. Also included is the story of a boy saved a camp from starvation with the help of the raven spirit.

Interview includes stories about a ghost priest and a non-existent camp. Also included is a story of how a lame boy's skill as a medicine man won him a chieftainship and a wife.

Interview includes stories about a Cree band who avenged the killing of a young boy by the Blackfoot. He tells of his grandfather who helped a Cree raiding party find food.

Interview includes stories of a Woods Cree who turned a Plains Cree son-in-law into a bone spirit and the revenge that came from that.

Interview with Antoine Lonesinger, who tells stories of escapes from Blackfoot and the use of spirits and evil powers.

Interview includes a biographical account of Antoine Lonesinger's life that includes stories about farming, trapping, house construction and the making of charcoal and lime. He also tells of the murder of an Indian Agent at the hands of a Blackfoot named Owl Eyes.

Interview with Mr Lonesinger who tells stories of Indian agents both good and bad. He also tells of the Battle of the Cut Knife Hill and the banning of the Sundance.

Interview includes stories of attacks on women by Blackfoot and Cree raiders. It also includes the story of the acquisition of the Sioux Dance (or Grass Dance) from the bone grass spirits.

Interview includes the stories of a raid on the Blackfoot and the struggle for supremacy between two medicine men. (Transcribed by J. Greenwood)

Examines three Canadian works that deal with life on reserves: Keeper'n Me by Richard Wagamese , fareWel by Ian Ross, and Truth and Bright Water by Thomas King.

(Ph.D.)--University of Missouri - Columbia, 2002.

Describes the processes involved in tribal decision making process and how the U.S. government policy contributed to the conflict.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Washington State University, 1982.

Book review of: The Archaeology of Native-Lived Colonialism by Neal Ferris.

Archaeology Thesis (M.A.)--Simon Fraser University, 1996.

Examines the aftermath of the colonial uprising in New Mexico and the radical changes it instigated in Pueblo culture and society.

Chronicles the complex relationship between archaeologists and Native Americans. The author argues that changes have only occured because of law, not ethics.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Arizona, 2001.

Book review of: Arctic Smoke and Mirrors by Gerard Kenney.

Thesis (M.A.)--Bowling Green State University, 2010.

Book review of: "As Their Natural Resources Fail": Native Peoples and the Economic History of Northern Manitoba, 1870-1930 by Frank Tough.

Provides an overview of the development of the Indian Act and the effects of Bill C-31. The article argues that the amendment, which was intended to rectify previous injustices, has failed to provide a solution.

Originally published as the Forty-Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology. This edition published with a new introduction by David Reed Miller.

Origins of the Assiniboine people and the establishment of the White Cap Reserve.

History of the White Bear Reserve at Moose Mountain. No date given, probably in the early 1970's.

History of the Qu'Appelle Valley Reserves. No date given, probably in the early 1970's.

Charles Ryder tells the story of the settlement of the Carry the Kettle (Assiniboine) Reserve. Also gives a detailed description of old agricultural practices. No date given, probably early 1970's.

Discusses the migration of the Assiniboine after the break with the Yanktonai Dakota.

Author explores the meanings that are made by the La Paz Run, an annual commemoration of the hundreds of Hualapais who, in 1875, broke out of an internment camp in Southern Arizona and followed the Colorado River for almost 200 miles back to their reservation at the edge of the Grand Canyon.

Discusses historical trends of surrendering reserve land to speculators and current trends of land purchase through the Treaty Land Entitlement Agreement.

Humanities, Social Sciences and Social Justice Education Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2013.

A very brief interview touching on treaty rights and on the history of the Swan River Reserve.

Detailed description of what happened at Blackfoot Crossing when Treaty 7 was negotiated; and CPR right of way through the Blackfoot Reserve.

A discussion of Land rights under Treaty #7; trade of furs for goods; and the dispersal of the Blackfoot people and eventual return to the Blackfoot Reserve under Crowfoot.

Examines the contrasting portrayal of Indigenous issues and people in film by Native and non-Native filmmakers.

Discusses a manuscript, recording the history of Ojibwe communities from Minnesota to Michigan, written by an Ojibwe man published 32 years after his death.

Guide to accompany student resource book. Class is designed for Grade 12 students. For use with: Textbook. Integrated Resource Package.

Bad Man gives an account of the arrival of white men, acceptance of treaty by Bloods, and subsequent lease of land by Mormons.

Using still photographs from the nineteenth century, Willie Dunn sings a ballad about the Blackfoot Chief of the Canadian West. Duration: 10:18.

Describes ceremony on Sweetgrass Reserve in Saskatchewan; administrative offices officially opened by Dr. J. Cliff McIsaac (Liberal representative from Battleford/Kindersley area).

Final report regarding the two specific claims arguing that reserve lands taken for highway construction were never surrendered to Canada and/or transferred to the Province of Quebec. Commissioners include : Sheila G. Purdy and Alan C. Holman. [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.]