Leaders

Recounts the battle of the Little Big Horn in Montana.

Overview of McNickle's life (1904-1977) and his contributions to the field of cultural anthropology.

Examination of a Hudson Bay journal entry about the treatment for illness and death of Barbue in the summer of 1828 at Fort Good Hope.

Leadership and Training Thesis (M.A.)--Royal Roads University, 2000.

History of Lesser Slave Lake reserves, and details of the history of Swan River Reserve.

Image of John Diefenbaker with an RCMP officer at the Batoche at cemetery during the opening ceremony.

Image of John Diefenbaker walking through the cemetery at the opening ceremony, June 28, 1961.

Image of procession at the funeral of John Diefenbaker. Man with headdress at centre.

File contains an itinerary for Diefenbaker's visit to Calgary, where he is to see the indigenous village at the exhibition grounds.

Education Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Manitoba, 1999.

Interdisciplinary Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Manitoba, 1997.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--Ohio State University, 2011.

Focuses on the Treaty Alliance of North American Aboriginal Nations which is a mutual defense pact. Includes supportive commentaries.

Uses the ideology of manifest destiny to connect the policies and political practices of Donald Trump, Andrew Jackson, and Adolf Hitler; focuses on the removal of one people or race to make living space for another.

Among another documents, this folder contains an undated handwritten note by Dr. Stewart about the death of Almighty Voice. Also includes an undated newspaper clipping written by Howard Angus Kennedy about cairns with inscriptions naming Poundmaker and Big Bear as rebels, entitled "More Strange Errors In Comedy Of The Cairns Related And Injustice To Rebelling Indians Is Exposed".

Historical note:

Dr. A.B. Stewart acted as coroner for the Royal North West Mounted Police and had a medical practice at Rosthern, Saskatchewan in the late 1800s-early 1900s.

This folder contains correspondence relating to a pension increase request for Napoleon Venne, shot by Almighty Voice on 26 May 1897. Venne sought medical aid for his wound from Dr. A.B. Stewart, and Stewart wrote a letter of support in 1924 for Venne's request for a pension increase. Venne was turned down. Also includes a letter from William Bleasdell Cameron about the capture of Big Bear.

Historical note:

A photograph taken at the North Battleford Indian Hospital that appeared in the Saskatoon Star Phoenix, 22 December 1953. The caption reads: "DR. HEAD, left, on behalf of the hospital staff, presents Archdeacon Hives with a parting gift on the eve of his departure to assume his new duties as Bishop of Keewatin."

Examines Bland's background influences which helped motivate him to act as an advocate against the practice of assimilation.

This file contains information relating to the dugout canoe located in the Prince Albert Historical Society Museum, Prince Albert, SK. Notes describing the construction are attributed to Dan Ellison Jr. and an unknown person. Also included are notes relating to Big Bear’s Winchester rifle, made in 1880 and donated to the Museum in 1933 by Fred McFadden.

Investigates how early American literature portrayed death of Indigenous leaders and how such portrayals were used as a method of marginalizing the people.

A portrait of an Aboriginal family in a studio setting. All are dressed in ceremonial costume. Colours have been added to the photograph in a chromolithograph process. The postcard is addressed to Miss Myrtle Meakin, French River, Ontario.

Tribute to and biography of Chief Albert Bellegarde.

The Eighth 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. Includes a map of the Nex Perce Indian Reservation located in present-day Idaho.

Historical note:

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

[Political History] Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 2006.

A photograph of an elderly Aboriginal man sitting on a chair, taken in Prince Albert, NWT [1901]. He wears a knitted wool hat, knee high moccasins and a military style wool coat.

Historical note:

File contains a copy of Diefenbaker's speech in Quebec City concerning his contention that Canada's indigenous persons should have a voice in the affairs of the state; he also mentions indigenous senator James Gladstone.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 1981.

Book review of: Elias Cornelius Boudinot by James W. Parins.

Consists of an interview where she gives a brief account of Indian medicine; she mentions accounts she has heard of the War of 1812; and mentions certain superstitions.

Consists of an interview where she tells of stories for amusement and general reminiscences of her life.

Interview describes a chief who led a raid in which many warriors lost their lives.

Political Science Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Utah, 2010.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Arizona, 1972.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 1998.

American Indian Studies Thesis (M.A.)--The University of Arizona, 1997.

Four leaders: Maniilaq, Punginguhk, Uyagaq and Egaq and their influence on maintaining Inuit cultural patterns through creative accommodation to white contact.

Examines the issues Governor Archibald faced as he attempted to create the structures necessary to run the newly formed province.

Challenges the stereotype of static Indigenous political organization with an investigation of the historical adaptability of Indigenous leadership on the Great Plains.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Oklahoma State University, 1997.

Ten panels demonstrate the progression of the war, highlighting some of the key battles and significant figures of the war.