Leaders

Author examines the writings and compares the careers of two missionaries working to convert Indigenous peoples in North America; focuses on the missionaries’ engagement with the elders, storytellers and culture of the nations.

Back of photo reads "Kinosa-oo and Moostoosh. 2 Cree Chiefs. Posed seated in chairs beside one another.

Environmental Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2002.

Speech and Drama Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 1957.

Brief look at the speaking career of the advocate and representative for the Apache, Comanche, Kiowa peoples of Oklahoma.

Book review of: The Queen's People, A Study of Hegemony, Coercion, and Accommodation Among the Okanagan of Canadaby Peter Carstens.

Examines the memoirs of Queen Liliuokalani (1838-1917) which challenged the United States colonial construction of the Hawaiian nation, and became the historical foundation of the 1993 congressional apology to the Hawaiian people. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 32.

Considers evidence and critical questions regarding, if or when Riel became mentally ill.

Image of three chiefs with Rev. Hives and C. Innes outside RCMP barracks at Battleford.

File contains 11 negatives of the official flag raising ceremony at the Opening of the Prince Albert District Chief's Offices in Prince Albert, SK on March 25, 1988. The pictures show what appear to be Chiefs and other officials outside the District Offices assembled for the flag ceremony.

Book review of Recollecting Black Hawk by Nicholas A. Brown and Sarah E. Kanouse.

Comments on why Hāmana Mahuika's assailant was tried in a settler court rather than dealt with by the Indigenous peoples in accordance with their own laws and customs.

Uses the writings of historical Hawaiian leaders to analyze how they embraced their blackness to challenge settler-colonial ideology that their perceived blackness made them unfit for sovereignty. Maoli literature used includes: Prince Alexander Liholiho, Samuel Kamakau, King Kalakaua, and Queen Lili‘uokalani.

Essay argues "that Geronimo's relative obscurity is due to its generic constraints and enigmatic content, both of which frustrate the reader by eluding easy interpretation".

Pencil sketch of Indian chief mounted on horse at left and Red River Cart at right; trees in background. Written at bottom of sketch: Pte. J.W. Craig / C.Co. I.S.C / Toronto Ont. Item found within folder 1 of file Rebellion, 1885.

This essay examines reasons for unrest among the Aboriginal population of the old Northwest in the years leading up to the disturbances of 1885. The writer worked for the Indian Department of the Dominion Government during this time. Item found within folder 1 of file Rebellion, 1885.

Coverage of the trial of Louis Riel, including an appeal of Riel's death sentence. Also covered is Poundmaker's trial in Prince Albert. Item found within folder 1 of file Rebellion, 1885.

This chapter of Reginald Beatty's diary describes his experiences as a Free-Trader in the winter of 1884-1885. He notes a general feeling of unrest among the Aboriginals he encounters as he travels from the Stony Creek area to the Carrot River area. Item found within folder 'Reginald Bird Beatty Papers.'

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Note: The title of this document uses wording that was common to mainstream society of that time period in history. As such, it contains language that is no longer in common use and may offend some readers. This wording should not be construed to represent the views of the Indigenous Studies Portal or the University of Saskatchewan Library. Collage of sketches relating to the Northwest Resistance; sketch subjects include Louis Riel, Government House in Battleford, and Fort Carlton.

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From The Graphic, an Illustrated Newspaper.

Tribute to the late Gordon MacMurchy, a senior member of the Allan Blakeney cabinet and MLA from 1971 to 1982 whose responsibilities included First Nations affairs.

Sam Kenoi’s “Coyote and the Whitemen”: Contact in and out of a Chiricahua Narrative by Anthony K. Webster examines specific narration by placing it within the context of received standards for a Coyote narrative. Language in Mari Sandoz’s Crazy Horse: Strange Man of the Oglalas by Kimberli Lee discusses the Indian perspectives used in Mari Sandoz’s work.

Focuses on Louis Riel's years in exile in Montana and his involvement with the Métis.

Thesis (Ph.D)--Kent State University, 2016.

Portrait of Red Dog, "Chief of Crees."

Article provide biographical information from historic sources and articulates Sagoyewatha’s (Red Jacket’s) role as an activist for Indigenous sovereignty; focuses on his participation in the Ogden Council of 1819 and his appropriation of the Republican rhetoric of the time.

The story of Sagoyewatha, a Seneca orator and leader who, until 1820, refused to have an image of him made that would outlast his physical existence.

Portrait sketch of Red Pheasant. Caption: "In 1878 Red Pheasant selected a reserve in the Eagle Hills, south of the territorial capital at Battleford, Saskatchewan. From the book Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion by Blair Stonechild and Bill Waiser.

Focuses on James McKay, a famous guide and Métis who later became a Member of Parliament for Manitoba.

Response to 66-page pamphlet entitled Red River Insurrection: Hon. Wm. McDougall's Conduct Reviewed.

Article details how the journalist John Sedgwick solicited editorial readings of his book, Blood Moon, from the author and another scholar and how, after refusing to make the fact and tone based change the had recommended, included notes in the texts thanking the scholars for their work and making it seem as though they had endorsed the text.

Depicts U.S. Government policy betraying the Sioux people in the 1870s and 1880s.

Highlights from the Hanakaska collection on twelve Plains Indian Leaders.

Louis Riel trial, appeal and medical reports. English version: The Queen vs. Louis Riel, Accused and Convicted of the Crime of High Treason: Report of Trial at Regina ... .

Author offers a critical examination of the ways that the Coast Salish Chief Seattle is remembered; considers both Indigenous and settler perspectives, and different social and cultural discourses that have evolved around the leader.

The cover story of the CBC Radio Guide for May 1985 deals with the legacy of Louis Riel, written by Bob Beal and Rod MacLeod. The story contains a brief analysis of the Northwest Resistance and the political effects on French and English Canada. Pps. 5-7.

History Thesis (M.A.)--Concordia University, 2009.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--Queen's University, 2010.

Transcript of a tape recorded interview of Metis North West Mounted Police employee Gabriel Leveille. Leveille worked in the Cypress Hills, Fort Walsh area during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Topics covered in the interview include Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse in Canada, Gabriel Dumont and the 1885 uprising, roping a grizzly bear in the Cypress Hills, Chief Piapot, Ranching, and numerous other topics pertaining to Police and Metis life.

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Report includes appendices relating to reserves, schedule of leases, statutes of British Columbia relating to Aboriginals and missions of British Columbia.

English Philology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Universidade da Coruña, 2015.

Author uses archives, historical narratives, and or histories to reconstruct a biography of the historic chief.

Uses this meeting to illustrate the differences between Aboriginal and European ways of constructing knowledge and interpreting past events.

Examines Treaty 6 through the struggle of Cree leader, Mistahi Maskwa, and his fight for better terms.