Leaders

Gives English translation of a number of Indian words.

1 file containing: Notes for an election speech in Peterborough, Ontario. He mentions that his government has installed an Indigenous representative to Parliament.

Describes William Apess' misunderstanding of the relationship between his grandmother and Philip of the Pequots and his later discovery of his Wampanoag heritage.

Lifetime chief of the Fort MacKay band gives a brief account of the signing of Treaty 8; talks about Fort MacKay band reserves, how they are located a long way from Fort MacKay where people reside.

Chief John Smoke Johnson (Mohawk Band), Young Warner (Cayuga Band), and John Tutlee (Cayuga Band) of the Six Nations. All three men are sitting in chairs. Letter attached to back is addressed to Sir John A. Macdonald by Jasper T. Gilkinson (Superintendent of the Six Nations Indian Agency from 1862 to 1891) and identifies the three men.

Art History Thesis (M.A.)--Concordia University, 2000.

John Diefenbaker with Indian Chiefs in parlour car of campaign train, Fort McLeod, Alberta, and John and Olive Diefenbaker with town officials in Medicine Hat, Bow Island, and Taber, Alberta.

Historical note:

Olive Evangeline (Freeman, Palmer) Diefenbaker; b. 14 Apr, 1902; d. 23 Dec, 1976; second wife of JGD.

Explores the popular myth that Plains Cree chief Piapot tried to halt construction of the Canadian Pacific Railroad by pitching tipis along the construction route.

Interview of Mr. Harper that includes stories about the Lousy Ones and Scar Face.

Story of how Poundmaker escaped the Blackfoot after a scouting mission.

Discusses poetry inspired by the life of Louis Riel. Duration: 32:12.

Anthropology and Sociology Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 1972.

Describes the various ranks or social status within the bands.

Overview of events leading up to the Pontiac uprising, events during the war and a brief explanation of what good may have come from it. Excerpt from: Canada and Its Provinces, Vol. III, edited by Adam Shortt and Arthur G. Doughty.

A photograph of the poplar bluff near Bellevue, SK, where Almighty Voice, Little Saulteaux, and Dublin, of the One Arrow band died in a fire fight with police and volunteers in 1897.

A portrait of Louis Riel wearing a plaid overcoat taken in New York state in 1875.

An oval portrait of Louis Riel, taken in Winnipeg around 1873.

Photograph of a Cree man alleged to be Almighty Voice, famed for his standoff against the North West Mounted Police. Almighty Voice was from the One Arrow First Nation.

Black and white photograph of Louis Riel made into a postcard and enlarged.

Negative of a black and white photograph of Chief Poundmaker.

Short profile of the plains Cree chief (1826-1886).

An undated photo of the Cree Chief Poundmaker posed standing with a rifle.

Photograph. Caption: "Poundmaker surrounded by a group of visiting French journalists at Stony Mountain Penitentiary." From the book Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion by Blair Stonechild and Bill Waiser.

Negative of an artists representation of Chief Poundmaker, in traditional costume.

1972 ceremony honouring Chief Poundmaker at the Cut Knife Battlefield on the Poundmaker Reserve.

On July 16, 1993, Poundmaker First Nation unveiled a monument of Big Bear, a Cree leader in the 1880's.

Photograph. Caption: "Poundmaker's grave site at the top of Cut Knife Hill, Poundmaker First Nation." From the book Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion by Blair Stonechild and Bill Waiser.

A paper apparently written by [Jennie] Moore, sister of Mrs. John Douglas, briefly describing pre-contact life and the arrival of European settlers in the Cut Knife, SK area. The paper focuses on Poundmaker and the Battle of Cut Knife Hill in March 1885. It ends with glowing descriptions of productive farm land and of the growth of the town of Cut Knife.

Extracts from Poundmaker's speech to General Middleton.

Photograph of the surrender of Poundmaker (with blanket) to General Middleton's forces. Caption: "Poundmaker was taken into custody for his apparent role in the looting of Battleford and the Cut Knife battle." From the book Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion by Blair Stonechild and Bill Waiser.

Image of a pow-wow with Chief Beardy (plumes on hat) and Chief Okamesis [after] the Northwest Resistance. A group of non-Aboriginal men stand behind the Chiefs.

Kinesiology Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Western Ontario, 2005.

Examines underlying currents in the debate surrounding a monument to commemorate Riel.

Book review of: Prairie Man by Norman E. Matteoni.

A photograph of Prime Minister John G. Diefenbaker with four Aboriginal men looking at a map in ? Northwest Territories in May, 1959.

File contains Diefenbaker's protests to Pearson's announcement that administration of the Quebec Inuit is to be transferred to the Quebec government.

1 file containing a document with a broadcast portion (of local radio station) of a speech given by Diefenbaker at the Orpheum Theatre in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, including a reference to the recent appointment of Chief Gladstone as Senator.

1 file containing Volume 9, Number 2 of the Saskatchewan Indian magazine; House of Commons debates regarding the protection of Indian treaty; Letter to Hon. Bud Cullen, Minister of Employment and Immigration, from Chief Harold Kingfisher of the Sturgeon Lake Band and Doug Cuthand, requesting that the government explain why the Sturgeon Lake Band has not received any Canada Works funding in the past three years

File contains information on activism, agriculture, reserve life, medical services, drug prescriptions, land claims, the Indian Act, Metis, Indigenous rights, chiefs, sterilization of indigenous women, the "Red Paper", discrimination, treaties 8 and 11, recreation, Liquor Act, provincial law, housing, Local Initiatives Programs, utilities on reserves, and poverty.

Parman responds to the article "Progressive-Era Bureaucrats and the Unity of Twentieth-Century Indian Policy" offering a different perspective on social, economic, and political factors which have influenced the polices of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Geography Thesis (Ph.D.)--McGill University, 1990.

File contains a copy of Diefenbaker's speech to the Progressive Conservative Association of Sudbury, in which he mentions that his government gave indigenous peoples the right to vote and the appointment of indigenous senator James Gladstone.

Article examines the Indian Policy of the United States government; argues that the policies hold at their core an evolutionary perspective on social development which places the United States government in a paternalist role, guiding Indigenous people through the evolution of their race.

Examines the leadership power struggle between William Dease, who stressed Metis rights and Louis Riel, who emphasized French and Catholic rights.

A profile of mixed-blooded Creek prophet Josiah Francis who rose to predominance during the War of 1812.