Agriculture

Book review of: Aboriginal Australians by Richard Broome Scroll down to page 129 to read review.

Some Aboriginal farm houses from the twentieth century. No date or location given, likely the Canadian prairies.

Book review of: Aboriginal Labour and the Cattle Industry by Dawn May. Review located by scrolling to page 148.

Aboriginal stone pickers working in a field near Davidson, SK. Date unknown.

Aboriginal stone pickers working in a field near Davidson, Sk. Date unknown.

Book review of three books: Aboriginal Workers edited by Ann McGrath and Kay Saunders, with Jackie Huggins. Aboriginal Labour and the Cattle Industry by Dawn May. Indians at Work by Rolf Knight. To read review, scroll down to page 75.

Describes the First Nations Agricultural Council of Saskatchewan (FNACS) mandate, which is to access federal and provincial assistance programs available to farmers.

Agricultural Education Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Arizona, 1984.

Study suggests that failure of agriculture on this reserve had little to do with character and more to do with Department of Indian Affairs' policies.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 1981.

Covers the past 100 years of contact between First Nations farmers and non-Aboriginal farmers which in many circumstances depended on the level of respect they had for each other.

Explores the drive during World War I to compel Native Americans to revise their agricultural practices in order to produce more food for the nation.

Introductory essay outlines the contributions of the ten attached reviews focused on the title theme from a variety of different subject areas.

Geography Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nebraska, 2006.

Science in Geography Thesis (M.Sc.)--Univeristy of Montana, 2014.

A photo of Angus McKay (at left) in his garden at La Ronge with two unidentified men. Taken during the journey of Christina Bateman and Annie McKay from Prince Albert to La Ronge, SK in 1919.

Author suggests that Native Americans should start a tribal food sovereignty by growing native fruits and vegetables.

This booklet answers questions concerning the relationship between Aboriginals, Aleuts and Inuit and the United States Federal Government. Answers cover numerous areas: Legal status of Indians, Indian lands, the purpose of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, economic status, health, education, and law and order on reservations. Also includes lists of selected readings, publications, and museum locations.

Abstract: The territorial aspirations and achievements of Aboriginal minorities in the common-law jurisdictions of North America, Australia and New Zealand can be divided according to three varieties of political-legal situations; those in areas of initiation, enhancement and omission. In the first of these, to which attention is here confined, there has been no legally defined and protected land-base, and Aboriginal land claims are or have been the subject of recent litigation, negotiation and settlement.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2010.

Book review of: The Australasian Catholic Record. To access review, scroll down to page 229.

This file contains excerpts from Reginald Beatty's diary, correspondence about his encounters with Cree people, and letters home to his parents detailing his experience in the 1885 Riel Rebellion. Mr. Beatty was a farmer and fur trader in what is now known as the Melfort area of Saskatchewan.

Image of berry picking expedition on Lac la Ronge Highway. Several children and one adult walking beside or riding in a horse-drawn wagon.

Black and white photograph of a young Blood farmer named Bert Medicine Crane in western apparel.

Book review of: The Black Eureka by Max Brown. To access review, scroll down to page 179.

Discusses relations between the Akha highland peoples and the lowlanders as well as the role opium production and consumption plays in their lives. To access this article scroll down to page 16.

Asks for help for the Masssai and Samuru pastoralists.

Questions findings about the relationship between Late Prehistoric Caddo farmers and earlier Archaic and Woodland foragers because their findings did not include non-metric dental traits.

File contains samples of Red River Rebellion Military Bounty Land Warrants, North West Mounted Police Warrants, North-West Rebellion Military Bounty Warrants and Land Certificates, and Metis Scrip Certificates.

This article describes the findings of a study of isolated communities and reserves in the prairie provinces conducted for the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation, with the co-operation of the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. The study finds that housing conditions for aboriginals are sub-standard and properly constructed houses and housing groups would be beneficial.

Looks at access to federal and provincial funding by Aboriginal cattle producers in Saskatchewan during the 2003 crisis.

Book reviews of:The Heavy Hand of History: Interpreting Saskatchewan's Past edited by Gregory P. Marchildon, On the Side of the People: A History Of Labour in Saskatchewan by Jim Warren and Kathleen Carlisle, Saskatoon: A History in Photographs by Jeff O'Brien, Ruth W. Millar and William P. Delainey.

Uses microbotanical data, macrobotanical data and radiocarbon dating to back up claims that maize agriculture did not exist until the historic period at the site examined.

Excerpt from The Story of Saskatchewan and its People, vol. 1

A long time resident of Cumberland House talks about conditions in the area during the years that Jim Brady was living there.

Subtitled: "Entered according to act of Parliament of Canada, in the year 1885 by Prof. Buell in the office of the ministry of agriculture." Image of Lt. Gov. Dewdney and a troop of military men in uniform. In the foreground are 6 chiefs.

Documentary shows life at boarding school, the city landscape and lifestyle in the Russian tundra. Overview of alternative education offered to tundra children in life skills with teacher Anna Nerkagi. Duration: 28:18.

Renewable Resources Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Alberta, 2012.

Reports how the mountain ecosystem is expected to be influenced by the adverse effects of climate change on water flows, biodiversity, people and livelihoods.

Environment and Geography Thesis (M.E.)--University of Manitoba, 2012.

Note: The title and description 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. This file contains a variety of documents pertaining to the Halfbreed Scrip Commission in the Saskatchewan District of the North West Territories following the Northwest Resistance. It also contains documents referring to the scrip issued to scouts who took part in suppressing the 1885 uprising.

Shows how declining agricultural results forced people to look at other means of survival, how the arrival of railroading provided the alternative employment opportunity needed, and how this all led to the departure of many Laguna to distant areas as wage laborers.

Originally published: 1917.

A memorandum from E.S. Jones, Regional Supervisor of Indian Agencies, Saskatchewan, to all Indian Agency Superintendents and Assistants relating to land leasing procedures for Aboriginals on reserves in Saskatchewan.

Historical note:

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

Papers from a conference held at the Glenbow Museum in September 1997.

Ecology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001.

Looks at the coercesion of the Navajo, by the United States government, through military domination, the threat of starvation, and finally relocation along the Pecos River in eastern New Mexico.

This 84 year old man has lived at Little Buffalo Lake for 55 years, raising cattle and trapping.