Leaders

One photograph taken at North Battleford Indian Hospital that appeared in the Saskatoon Star Phoenix, 22 December 1953. It is found on page 13 of the scrap book (A-792-2). The caption reads: "Chief Swimmer is shown here addressing the assembly before the initiation. Left to right are: Miss J. M. Morton, RN, head of the nursing staff; Edwin Wuttunee, Red Pheasant reserve, interpreter; Chief Sam Swimmer; Dr. P. W. Head, superintendent of the Indian hospital; Archdeacon H. E. Hives, Bishop-elect of Keewatin."

Copy of illustration depicting white missionary shaking hands with an Aboriginal man wearing traditional head-dress, beside a sod-roofed log cabin - supposedly near Carlton. Copied from Red Indians of the Plains by J. Hines, 1916, p.78. Two natives look on. Caption reads: I thought I never saw a finer built man.

Book review of Mississauga Portraits by Donald B. Smith.

Presents transliteration of statement made by Big Bear following sentencing at the 1885 trial in which he was tried for treason. Author presents a revised statement after considering words and meaning lost in translation.

Image depicts Mistahimaskwa bound and covered with a blanket while seated in a chair. 4 soldiers/policemen (two holding rifles) stand behind him. A fort wall (Fort Carlton?) is directly behind them.

Book review of: Modern American Indian Leaders in 2 volumes by Dean Chavers.

Discusses postcards by a Kiowa photographer who capitalized on the popularity of Plains Indian male imagery.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2016.

An image of two Aboriginal men in full ceremonial regalia with head dresses.

Ovide Mercredi elected as National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) at 12th Assembly held in Winnipeg.

Biographical essay reexamines the legacy of a nineteenth-century Cheyenne leader named Vóóhéhéve (Morning Star or Dull Knife); draws on statements from his family and community members to decolonize the historical narrative surrounding the chief.

Discusses the Pequot activist and writer's attempts to subvert the myth of the "Vanishing American", and his unique position as an Indian intellectual in the early 1800s. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 1.

Discussion of the remodelling of the local church. No date given, probably in the 1970's.

Consists of an interview where she discusses arranged marriages in her youth and the artistic tradition in her family.

Consists of an interview where there is discussion of traditional Indian values. There is also mention of a flood legend.

Reflects on the long political career of John Munro, former Minister of Indian Affairs, who died on August 20, 2003.

[American Indian Studies] Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 2012.

Black and white photograph of Muskwa, the son of Four Sky Thunder, Big Bear's Councillor.

Black and white photograph of Muskwa, the son of Four Sky Thunder, Big Bear's Councillor.

FSI Senator John Tootoosis of the Poundmaker Reserve addresses University of Regina students. Reprinted from the Regina Leader Post.

The author works to recontextualize the life of Colonel George Laird Shoup illustrating his role and responsibility in the Sand Creek Massacre (November 29, 1864), an event which led to the deaths of 230 Cheyenne and Arapaho people.

National Indian Brotherhood ceremony pays tribute to Clive Linklater, Omer Peters, Alwyn Morris and Wilton Littlechild.

History Thesis (M.A.)--Simmons College, 2009.

Comments on one of the most famous women in Cherokee history who distinguished herself as a war hero. Presented at the Tenth Native American Symposium, November 14-15, 2013. Chapter from Native Ground: Protecting and Preserving History, Culture, and Customs edited by Mark B. Spencer.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005.

Article commemorating the life and accomplishments of Harold Cardinal, author, teacher, lawyer and leader who died June 3, 2005 at the age of 60.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.22.

File contains a series of negatives from a ceremony installing Ovide Mercredi as an honorary prisoner at the Saskatchewan Penitentiary in Prince Albert, SK. The negatives contain pictures of Mercredi (National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations 1991-1997) receiving a certificate from unidentified (Penitentiary?) officials.

File contains 11 negatives from the National Treaty Chief's Meeting at the Beardy's Reserve on July 19, 1988. The first negative shows a procession of dignitaries with the Canadian flag. The second shows an unidentified Chief or elder with the Canadian flag. The third and forth show men apparently in prayer, with the flags of Canada and Great Britain. The fifth and sixth show two men in a tent one, of whom appears to be delivering a speech. The seventh and eighth show a procession of men (one of whom is an Aboriginal RCMP member) with a what appears to be an unidentified flag and a coup stick.

Donald L. Fixico, policy historian, speaks about relationships, places of reference, stories and legends and his latest book, Inside the Lodge: American Indian Oral Tradition, Myth, and Oral History. Duration: 1:01:47.

Book reviews of: The New Warriors: Native American Leaders Since 1900 edited by R. David Edmunds, Indigenous American Women: Decolonization, Empowerment, Activism by Devon Abbot Mihesuah, Sifters: Native American Women's Lives edited by Theda Perdue, Esther Ross: Stillaguamish Champion by Robert H. Ruby and John A. Brown, Indian Women and French Men: Rethinking Cultural Encounter in the Western Great Lakes by Susan Sleeper-Smith.

History Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia, 1985.

File contains 2 negatives from an unidentified National Chief's Conference Panel (Prince Albert?) held on March 5, 1989. The negatives show a variety of unidentified officials sitting at a table, during a panel discussion.

Presents introduction and black and white photographic images of Aboriginal leaders. Individuals are identified by name.

Community and Regional Planning Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia, 1987.

First of series B1715-17 of Native Indians in elaborate beaded clothing honour a middle-aged Caucasian man, probably at the Exhibition grounds. An article in the Star-Phoenix July 22, 1943 describes a ceremony on stage in front of the grandstand, in which Sid Johns, secretary-manager of the Exhibition, was inducted into the tribe of Sioux Indians and made an [honorary] Indian chief, by Chief Harry Littlecrow. Johns was named Chief Fine Weather.

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History Thesis (M.A.)--The University of Manitoba, 2009.

A group of Native and non-Native people at Fort Carlton nd. There are three Native men with headdresses and three non-Native women in dresses and sun hats. There is a Union Jack on a pole and a teepee in the background. Probably a treaty day celebration.

Communication Thesis (M.A.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2004.

Book review of: Indian Fall: The Last Great Days of the Plains Cree and the Blackfoot Confederacy by D'Arcy Jenish.

History of North American Indigenous political systems by examining their individual conscience, kinship and creative power.

"This paper examines the structural constraints and contradictory roles of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN), with a particular focus on state funding".

Interviewee discusses area of land covered when living by traditional trapping,hunting and fishing; relationship between residents of various northern settlements; and bringing freight by barge from Lesser Slave Lake.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of New Mexico, 2007.

Book review of: Ahtahkakoop: The Epic Account of a Plains Cree Head Chief, His People, and Their Struggle For Survival, 1816-1896 by Deanna Christensen.

Three photographs (2 scanned here) of David Ahenakew, president of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indians, speaking at an NDP convention in Saskatoon, November 19, 1977.

Uses correspondence to and from Joseph Brown to explore his personal philosophy and his process of transcribing and editing The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk’s Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 2001.