Leaders

Discusses Gabriel Dumont Speaks and Captive in an English Circus as alternate narratives to those usually found in the genre.

Discusses the role of Ely S. Parker in the film Lincoln.

A photograph of a Dakota (Sioux) Chief in Prince Albert, likely sometime in the latter half of the nineteenth century. The Chief is seated on a horse in traditional garb, flanked by two other Dakota people, with carriages and a building in evidence in the background.

A head and torso portrait of Chief Whitecap of the Moose Woods Reserve, now called the Whitecap Dakota First Nation. Photo taken in Regina in 1885 after the North West Resistance. Whitecap reportedly saved the people of Saskatoon from massacre at the time of the resistance. The Dakota people under his leadership fled the U.S. Cavalry for Canada in ca. 1862.

Correspondence by John Diefenbaker regarding honorary chieftainship from Sioux thanking Chief Little Crow for being named Chief Walking Buffalo.

Postcards and descriptions of Chief Tall Crane, Skin Cote, Yellow Hair, Bear Goes In the Wood, Lone Wolf and Chief Blackhawk.

Photograph of Sir John A. Macdonald, Prime Minister of Canada from 1867 to 1873, and 1878 to 1891. Caption: "Prime Minister Macdonald, the most senior Indian official in the country, privately endorsed a number of measures that amounted to an abrogation of Canada's treaty obligations." From the book Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion by Blair Stonechild and Bill Waiser.

First printing of the New Edition.

Describes events after the leader and his followers fled to Canada but continued to cross the border into the United States, causing friction between the two governments.

File containing a letter inquiring about a portrait of Sitting Bull on the Centennial Train, and an excerpt from the "Canadian Encyclopedia" on the life of Sitting Bull.

Story of the Northwest Resistance of 1885.

The Sixth Annual Report of the United States Board of Indian Commissioners includes reports of living conditions on reservations; correspondence and transcripts of meetings between government officials and Aboriginal chiefs and officials; and lists of Indian Agencies with names of tribes and agents.

Historical note:

Harold Nelson Woodsworth served as an Indian Agent at a number of agencies in Saskatchewan.

Biography of a man who was kidnapped as a child and raised by the chief of the Ottawas. Some events recorded to have happened may be questionable.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba, 1995.

This 86-year-old gentleman discusses Treaty #10 and his understanding of the terms. The informant was present at the signing.

General reminiscences of his life and he talks about a smallpox epidemic before he was born.

History Thesis (M.A.)--Simmons College, 2008.

Black and White photograph of the son and grandson of Chief Poundmaker in beaded traditional costumes posing in Western studio.

File contains a copy of Diefenbaker's speech at the inauguration of construction on the South Saskatchewan Dam, in which he thanks the Chief, Little Crow and the braves of the Dene tribe for making him a honorary Chief. He also speaks of the proud history of the Dene, their contributions to Canada, and the appointment of an indigenous man to senate.

Author uses the treatment of the Indigenous Christians by the colonial government during Metacom’s War (or King Phillip’s War) to contrast colonial and Indigenous understandings of sovereignty.

Book review of: Spirit's Trail by Dante.

Re-examines the American military disaster, analyzing what they did wrong, and how the Indians achieved their victory.

File contains a copy of Diefenbaker's speech at Cornwall, ON. in which Diefenbaker notes that there is an indigenous person (James Gladstone) in the senate.

Chronicles activities of the Church Missionary Society of London, England (CMS), which included the first attempt to establish a First Nation agricultural community in Western Canada.

Describes the conversion and control of Aboriginal people by Franciscans; analyzes and identifies leadership selection patterns and the role of leaders in relation to the missions.

A photograph taken at Stand Off, Alta. on Blood Reserve. Shows a ceremony in which Alexander of Tunis, Governor General, was inducted into Kainai Chieftanship. Part of a series of photographs, LH 2166-2169. In this photograph, Percy Creighton stands in centre holding "weasel tail robe", formerly owned by Red Crow, Blood war chief and signator to Treaty 7. Robe now in Alberta provincial Museum. John Cotton, kneeling at right, is medicine man performing initiation ceremony.

A photograph taken at Stand Off, Alta. on Blood Reserve. Shows a ceremony in which Alexander of Tunis, Governor General, was inducted into Kainai Chieftanship. Part of a series of photographs, LH 2166-2169. In this photograph, Percy Creighton stands on the left and John Cotton on the right, the medicine man performing initiation ceremony. Alexander of Tunis stands in the centre wearing a headdress.

A photograph taken at Stand Off, Alta. on Blood Reserve. Shows a ceremony in which Alexander of Tunis, Governor General, was inducted into Kainai Chieftanship. A large crowd stands near a decorated teepee. There are two men with headdresses and three men playing hand drums.

A photograph taken at Stand Off, Alta. on Blood Reserve. Shows a ceremony in which Alexander of Tunis, Governor General, was inducted into Kainai Chieftanship. Five men on horseback are shown wearing headdresses. Part of a series of photographs, LH 2166-2169.

Indian chief Noel Starblanket is seen in action, from talking to government officials for grants, to solving the domestic problems of his reserve. Duration: 27:20.

Noel Starblanket, Starblanket Reserve, was elected to a second two-year term as President of the National Indian Brotherhood

Contends that Michigan's experiment with citizenship should not be viewed as a failure.

Image depicts Bill Epp's statue of Gabriel Dumont astride a horse. The statue is located in Friendship Park near the Broadway Bridge in Saskatoon. The first image is taken facing toward Spadina Crescent.

Pamphlet contains an account of the battle at Loon Lake, SK, the final battle of the Northwest Resistance.

Historical note:

The Battle of Loon Lake concluded the Northwest Resistance on June 3 and was the last battle ever fought on Canadian soil.

Brief discussion of the lives of Egerton and Robert, sons of Rev. Henry B. Steinhauer, the first Aborigiinal Christian in Alberta.

American Culture Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan, 2011.

Biography of Paspasces (Woodpecker) of the Plains Cree.

Contains a speech given by John Diefenbaker at Strathmore Alberta during the election campaign of 1963 in which he discusses his first encounter with Indian people when his family moved to Saskatchewan in the early twentieth century, the many contributions of Indian people to Canadian society, the appointment of Senator Gladstone, and his desire to establish an Indian Claims Commission.

Story of Sweetgrass (Wikaskokiseyin).

Looks at the life of Chief Sweetgrass of the Cree Sweetgrass First Nation.

[English] Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Texas at Austin, 2010.