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Chief Hector Crawler
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.02.017
- Date
- 1931
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.02.017
- Description
- Colour: grey, yellow, red, black. The head and upper torso of an Indigenous man wearing a large feather headdress and a beaded buckskin jacket. A white beaded neckpiece hangs down in front. The background in grey.
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- Title
- Chief Hector Crawler
- Date
- 1931
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 76.5 x 63.0 cm
- Description
- Colour: grey, yellow, red, black. The head and upper torso of an Indigenous man wearing a large feather headdress and a beaded buckskin jacket. A white beaded neckpiece hangs down in front. The background in grey.
- Subject
- portrait, male
- Indigenous
- HECTOR CRAWLER
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.02.017
- Notes
- Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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- Date
- 1935 – 1945
- Material
- wood; stone; skin; fibre; metal
- Catalogue Number
- 104.06.0011
- Description
- Small shaped stone clubhead with handle made from poplar branch which has been bent over clubhead and back on itself. The two ends of the branch forming the handle are tightly bound together with a strip of leather wound about them and nailed into them. The clubhead is held securely in place by ban…
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- Title
- Club
- Date
- 1935 – 1945
- Material
- wood; stone; skin; fibre; metal
- Dimensions
- 5.0 x 11.5 x 44.7 cm
- Description
- Small shaped stone clubhead with handle made from poplar branch which has been bent over clubhead and back on itself. The two ends of the branch forming the handle are tightly bound together with a strip of leather wound about them and nailed into them. The clubhead is held securely in place by bands of leather wrapped around many times and held in place with nails and wire. Apiece of hemp cord is tied around notch at bottom of handle.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- warfare
- hunting
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.06.0011
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- Date
- prior to 1950
- Material
- stone; skin; glass; wood
- Catalogue Number
- 104.06.1007
- Description
- Stone club head attached to a beaded handle. The handle is attached to the stone by a fur thong (1.0 wide). Beadwork design is lines of red, white and blue.
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- Title
- Clubhead
- Date
- prior to 1950
- Material
- stone; skin; glass; wood
- Dimensions
- 5.0 x 16.5 cm
- Description
- Stone club head attached to a beaded handle. The handle is attached to the stone by a fur thong (1.0 wide). Beadwork design is lines of red, white and blue.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- Stoney
- armament
- Credit
- Gift of Unknown, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- 104.06.1007
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- Date
- 1930 – 1950
- Material
- feather; glass; fibre; metal
- Catalogue Number
- 109.02.0001
- Description
- A dance bustle of golden eagle wing feathers placed in a circle around a beaded medallion. There are smaller downier feathers attached to the wing feather tips. Orange, red and green dots attached to each feather form concentric circles. The round central medallion has a white four petaled flowe…
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- Title
- Dance Bustle
- Date
- 1930 – 1950
- Material
- feather; glass; fibre; metal
- Dimensions
- 31.0 (depth) x 50.0 x 50.0 cm
- Description
- A dance bustle of golden eagle wing feathers placed in a circle around a beaded medallion. There are smaller downier feathers attached to the wing feather tips. Orange, red and green dots attached to each feather form concentric circles. The round central medallion has a white four petaled flower outlined in red on a dark background.
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 109.02.0001
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Discovering people : english, french, cree
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25491
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Auger, Neepin
- Publisher
- Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 07.2 A4b
- Author
- Auger, Neepin
- Publisher
- Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 17 cm
- Subjects
- Language
- French
- Cree
- Indigenous
- Abstract
- Introduces basic words in English, French, and Cree relating to familiar people at home and in the community
- ISBN
- 9781771603270
- Accession Number
- P2022.01
- Call Number
- 07.2 A4b
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Finding directions west : readings that locate and dislocate Western Canada's past
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25531
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press
- Call Number
- 07.2 c71f
- Responsibility
- Edited by George Colpitts and Heather Devine
- Publisher
- Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- ix, 266 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Indigenous
- History-Canada
- History of Alberta
- Migration
- Colonialism
- Feminism
- Banff Centre
- Women's Rights
- Abstract
- Western Canada has figured historically as a focus point for new directions in human thought and action, migrations of the mind and body, and personal journeys of both a substantial and transcendental nature. The essays in Finding Directions West interrogate the meaning of those journeys, their reality, their memory, and their constructed identities within Western Canada itself. The book situates landscapes and peopled places in the West within the larger study of Western Canada and its transborder relationships. It draws scholars from a vareity of disciplines within history, from gender studies, to museum studies, to environmental history, in order to examine afresh Western Canada as a place for finding new directions in the human experience. -- From back cover
- Contents
- Partial List of Contents: Colonizer or Compatriot?: A Reassessment of Reveren John McDougall / Will Pratt ; "The Country Was Looking Wonderful": Insights on 1930s Alberta from the Travel Diary of Mary Beatrice Rundle / Sterling Evans ; Mountain Capitalists, Space, and Modernity at the Banff School of Fine Arts / PearlAnn Reichwein and Karen Wall
- ISBN
- 9781552388808
- Accession Number
- P2021.05
- Call Number
- 07.2 c71f
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- Archives Library
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- Date
- 1930 – 1950
- Material
- skin; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.1051 a-d
- Description
- 2 pairs embroidered gauntlets with fringes a,b: (38.0 x 22.5) machine sewn construction, gauntlet lined with yellow cotton which also forms a 0.5 wide edging, on hand back embroidered pink and purple rose with green and yellow stem, on gauntlet embroidered 4-petal red and pink flower, green stems a…
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- Title
- Gauntlet Gloves
- Date
- 1930 – 1950
- Material
- skin; fibre
- Description
- 2 pairs embroidered gauntlets with fringes a,b: (38.0 x 22.5) machine sewn construction, gauntlet lined with yellow cotton which also forms a 0.5 wide edging, on hand back embroidered pink and purple rose with green and yellow stem, on gauntlet embroidered 4-petal red and pink flower, green stems and leaves, dark blue flower in one corner, dark red in other, fringes ca 9.5, c,d: (36.0 x 19.0) machine sewn, gauntlet lined with unbleached cotton, on hand back embroidered star, light and dark red, 4 smaller designs, 2 light and dark red, other yellow and green, gauntlets, 1 light and dark red flower, green and yellow leaves, grey and white stems, fringes both sides ca 7.5.
- Credit
- Gift of Robert Crosby, Banff, 1985
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.1051 a-d
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- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Material
- skin; glass; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.1052 a-d
- Description
- 2 pair beaded and fringed gauntlets a,b: smoked buckskin, machine sewn, canvas lined gauntlet, 3 rows of beading on back of hand, red, blue, yellow, gauntlet has floral pattern, one large symmetrical flower, green, blue, red, yellow, 2 red and white flowers connected by dark blue stems, fringe 11.0…
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- Title
- Gauntlet Gloves
- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Material
- skin; glass; fibre
- Dimensions
- 19.0 x 35.0 cm
- Description
- 2 pair beaded and fringed gauntlets a,b: smoked buckskin, machine sewn, canvas lined gauntlet, 3 rows of beading on back of hand, red, blue, yellow, gauntlet has floral pattern, one large symmetrical flower, green, blue, red, yellow, 2 red and white flowers connected by dark blue stems, fringe 11.0 long, c,d: white buckskin, machine sewn, green cotton lined gauntlet, 3 rows of beading on back of hand, 2 silver, 1 pink on gauntlet, 2 daisy-type flowers, pinks, 1 yellow centre, 1 black, 3 green leaves, dark brown stems, fringe 9.5 long. (a,b) 35.0 x 19.0 (c,d) 34.5 x 20.0
- Subject
- Indigenous
- clothing
- beadwork
- Deer Lodge
- souvenirs
- regalia
- Credit
- Gift of Robert Crosby, Banff, 1985
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.1052 a-d
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- Date
- 1935 – 1945
- Material
- skin; glass; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.0077 a,b
- Description
- A pair of lightly beaded tan buckskin gloves with fringe at side of gauntlet. Back of hand contains three vertical lines of blue and orange feathers stitch beading. Gauntlet contains tulip like flower with white at centre and orange stamens above outlined with two rows of blue then a single row of …
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- Title
- Gauntlet Gloves
- Date
- 1935 – 1945
- Material
- skin; glass; fibre
- Dimensions
- 20.0 x 34.0 cm
- Description
- A pair of lightly beaded tan buckskin gloves with fringe at side of gauntlet. Back of hand contains three vertical lines of blue and orange feathers stitch beading. Gauntlet contains tulip like flower with white at centre and orange stamens above outlined with two rows of blue then a single row of transparent beads, and a white stem and three leaves with green centres. Floating on each side above are two heart shaped flowers with orange centres outlined with beige, a beige stem and three leaves with brown centres. Notched edge of gauntlet shows where stitched to hand, reinforced stitching around fingers, thumb and gauntlet. Gauntlet lined with muslin.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- beadwork
- regalia
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.0077 a,b
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- Date
- 1935 – 1945
- Material
- skin; glass; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.0101 a,b
- Description
- A pair of small child's gloves of buckskin with beaded design on gauntlet and back of hand, and fringes along outside of gauntlet. Gauntlet has large bell shaped turquoise flower with white and orange pointed petals at the top, with smaller star shaped flowers of green centres with red petals on a …
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- Title
- Gauntlet Gloves
- Date
- 1935 – 1945
- Material
- skin; glass; fibre
- Dimensions
- 13.0 x 22.1 cm
- Description
- A pair of small child's gloves of buckskin with beaded design on gauntlet and back of hand, and fringes along outside of gauntlet. Gauntlet has large bell shaped turquoise flower with white and orange pointed petals at the top, with smaller star shaped flowers of green centres with red petals on a turquoise stem in each corner at the top. Similar flowers with turquoise centres and black petals in each corner of the bottom a single star like blossom medallion with turquoise centre and red petals at the centre of the hand. Completely hand stitched with rolled edge at cuff. Cuff lined with patterned cotton having orange, blue and white oval shapes on black stems.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- beadwork
- regalia
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.0101 a,b
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- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Material
- skin; glass; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.0102 a,b
- Description
- A pair of lightly beaded, well made gloves with gauntlets. Hand bodies are made of a single piece of leather folded on inside, fingers with inset panels machine stitched in, and thumb set in as well. Gauntlets of leather with fringes at outsides. Back of hand has a simple white floral motif bordere…
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- Title
- Gauntlet Gloves
- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Material
- skin; glass; fibre
- Dimensions
- 18.0 x 33.0 cm
- Description
- A pair of lightly beaded, well made gloves with gauntlets. Hand bodies are made of a single piece of leather folded on inside, fingers with inset panels machine stitched in, and thumb set in as well. Gauntlets of leather with fringes at outsides. Back of hand has a simple white floral motif bordered in vermilion, and one in white with a blue centre and bordered in orange, the three blossoms connected by "dotted" beads in rose. Gauntlet is lined with flour sacking cotton.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- beadwork
- regalia
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.0102 a,b
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- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Material
- skin; glass; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.0104 a,b
- Description
- A pair of finely made, lightly beaded, gauntleted gloves. The hand bodies are cut from a single piece of hide with the thumb inset, and gauntlet is made from two pieces seamed to the handpiece at the wrist and at the extremities. A fringe of buckskin is added at the outside. The wrist seam is disgu…
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- Title
- Gauntlet Gloves
- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Material
- skin; glass; fibre
- Dimensions
- 19.0 x 35.0 cm
- Description
- A pair of finely made, lightly beaded, gauntleted gloves. The hand bodies are cut from a single piece of hide with the thumb inset, and gauntlet is made from two pieces seamed to the handpiece at the wrist and at the extremities. A fringe of buckskin is added at the outside. The wrist seam is disguised by a strip of lazy stitch green beads with a few lines of red and black. The edges of the gauntlets are bordered in black and white trapezoids, and across the gauntlets three strips of black and white triangles are accented by strips of yellow, vermilion, rose, and green.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- beadwork
- regalia
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.0104 a,b
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- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Material
- skin; glass; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.0105 a,b
- Description
- A pair of heavily beaded gauntleted gloves. Hand body cut from a single piece of buckskin, thumb inset. Heavily beaded gauntlets sewn on at wrist, front panel of gauntlet being of canvas and sewn to buckskin back, with long fringe at outside edge. Pattern is a red ground bordered in yellow and a la…
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- Title
- Gauntlet Gloves
- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Material
- skin; glass; fibre
- Dimensions
- 20.0 x 40.0 cm
- Description
- A pair of heavily beaded gauntleted gloves. Hand body cut from a single piece of buckskin, thumb inset. Heavily beaded gauntlets sewn on at wrist, front panel of gauntlet being of canvas and sewn to buckskin back, with long fringe at outside edge. Pattern is a red ground bordered in yellow and a large bright eight pointed yellow "sun" bordered in black, an inset square of red bordering black and a blue rectangle inside the square.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- beadwork
- regalia
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.0105 a,b
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- Date
- 1930 – 1950
- Material
- skin; glass; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.1077 a,b
- Description
- Pair of beaded gauntlets. Gauntlets lined with patterned fabric. Back of hand is a floral design of 3 flowers, red, mauve with orange and red with pink. Stem and branches are white. Light green leaves at base and 2 dark green and black leaves at top between the flowers. Gauntlets have a larger fl…
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- Title
- Gauntlet Gloves
- Date
- 1930 – 1950
- Material
- skin; glass; fibre
- Dimensions
- 24.5 x 38.0 cm
- Description
- Pair of beaded gauntlets. Gauntlets lined with patterned fabric. Back of hand is a floral design of 3 flowers, red, mauve with orange and red with pink. Stem and branches are white. Light green leaves at base and 2 dark green and black leaves at top between the flowers. Gauntlets have a larger floral design similar to back of hand but with larger flowers and flower buds, 4 at bottom, 2 similar together at the right, and 2 different at the left. Machine sewn gloves and gauntlets. Edges and junction of hand and gauntlet have a leather trim. Fringe along one side.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- beadwork
- regalia
- Credit
- Gift of Fred McCullagh, Banff, 1965
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.1077 a,b
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- Date
- 1930 – 1950
- Material
- skin; fibre; glass
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.1017 a,b
- Description
- A pair beaded gloves with gauntlets, gloves have 3 rows of orange and green stepped design on back of hand, gauntlets, yellow orange black rosette, centre top and green white stems and leaves, hand 18.0 x 10.0, gauntlet 14.0 x 17.0, fringe on gauntlelets ca. 7.5 long.
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- Title
- Gauntlet Gloves
- Date
- 1930 – 1950
- Material
- skin; fibre; glass
- Description
- A pair beaded gloves with gauntlets, gloves have 3 rows of orange and green stepped design on back of hand, gauntlets, yellow orange black rosette, centre top and green white stems and leaves, hand 18.0 x 10.0, gauntlet 14.0 x 17.0, fringe on gauntlelets ca. 7.5 long.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- beadwork
- regalia
- Credit
- Gift of Cyril Paris, Banff, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.1017 a,b
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- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.02.024
- Description
- Colour: blue, brown, red. The head and shoulders on a man facing left. He has short hair and wears a hat. There is a red scarf around his neck. The background is blue.
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- Title
- George McLean
- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 40.5 x 51 cm
- Description
- Colour: blue, brown, red. The head and shoulders on a man facing left. He has short hair and wears a hat. There is a red scarf around his neck. The background is blue.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.02.024
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The golden grindstone : the adventures of George M. Mitchell
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26172
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1935
- Publisher
- Toronto : Oxford University Press, Canadian Branch
- Call Number
- 08.2 G76g
- Responsibility
- Recorded by Angus Graham
- Publisher
- Toronto : Oxford University Press, Canadian Branch
- Published Date
- 1935
- Contents
- I. The general idea -- II. The geographical problem -- III. The immigrant train -- IV. Edmonton -- V. Athbasca landing -- VI. The Athabasca River -- VII. Grand rapids -- VIII. The Slave River -- IX. Great Slave Lake -- X. Fort Simpson -- XI. The Mackenzie River -- XII. Fort McPherson --XIII. The Eskimo -- XIV. The first traffic with the Indians -- XV. The Peel River -- The upper Peel River and the valley of noises -- XVII. Gold -- XVIII. The winter camp -- XIX. Prospecting and exploration -- XX. Bears and wolves -- XXI. The winter night -- XXII. The Indians' visit -- XXIII. Dogs -- XXIV. The broken knee -- XXV. The last of the white men -- XXVI. The Indian Camp -- XXVI. The Indian Camp -- XXVII. Caribou -- XXVIII. The old lady -- XXIX. Famine and riot -- XXX. Mitchell becomes an Indian -- XXXI. An Indian "Veillee" -- XXXII. Women -- XXXIII. The closest shave of all -- XXXIV. The skin boats -- XXXV. Summer hunting -- XXXVI. Mitchell remains an Indian -- XXXVII. The last of the Indians.
- Accession Number
- 2023.47
- Call Number
- 08.2 G76g
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- Archives Library
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Heavy Shield- “To-so-ko-ya-wo-tan” Blackfoot Chief
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- Date
- 1938 – 1938
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- MiG.03.03
- Description
- A first nations male sits with his back against the left edge of the image with his arms resting on his thighs. In his hands he holds a pipe. This man is wearing a head band with a feather at the back. He is sitting in a chair, and wears beaded cuffs and has a small horse around his neck with ot…
- Title
- Heavy Shield- “To-so-ko-ya-wo-tan” Blackfoot Chief
- Date
- 1938 – 1938
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 61.0 x 41.0 cm
- Description
- A first nations male sits with his back against the left edge of the image with his arms resting on his thighs. In his hands he holds a pipe. This man is wearing a head band with a feather at the back. He is sitting in a chair, and wears beaded cuffs and has a small horse around his neck with other neck adornment. The image is black and white.
- Subject
- portrait
- male
- Indigenous
- Credit
- Gift of C. Gardner Lane Jr., Scarborough, USA, 1996
- Catalogue Number
- MiG.03.03
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Honouring the strength of Indian women : plays, stories, poetry
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25710
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Manuel, Vera
- Publisher
- Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press
- Call Number
- 07.2 M31h
- Author
- Manuel, Vera
- Responsibility
- Vera Manuel = Kulilu Pal ki, Edited by Michelle Coupal, Deanna Reder, Joanne Arnott, and Emalene A. Manuel ; introduction by Emalene A. Manuel ; afterwords by Michelle Coupal, Deanna Reder, and Joanne Arnott.
- Publisher
- Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- xii, 391 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Subjects
- Indigenous
- Indigenous Culture
- Indigenous Customs
- Indigenous Art
- Indigenous Peoples
- Indigenous Traditions
- Women
- Ktunaxa
- Secwepemc
- Abstract
- This critical edition delivers a unique and comprehensive collection of the works of Ktunaxa-Secwepemc writer and educator Vera Manuel, daughter of prominent Indigenous leaders Marceline Paul and George Manuel. A vibrant force in the burgeoning Indigenous theatre scene, Vera was at the forefront of residential school writing and did groundbreaking work as a dramatherapist and healer. Long before mainstream Canada understood and discussed the impact and devastating legacy of Canada's Indian residential schools, Vera Manuel wrote about it as part of her personal and community healing. She became a grassroots leader addressing the need to bring to light the stories of survivors, their journeys of healing, and the therapeutic value of writing and performing arts. A collaboration by four Indigenous writers and scholars steeped in values of Indigenous ethics and editing practices, the volume features Manuel's most famous play, "Strength of Indian Women"--First performed in 1992 and still one of the most important literary works to deal with the trauma of residential schools-along with an assemblage of plays, written between the late 1980s until Manuel's untimely passing in 2010, that were performed but never before published. The volume also includes three previously unpublished short stories written in 1988, poetry written over three decades in a variety of venues, and a 1987 college essay that draws on family and community interviews on the effects of residential schools. -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Introduction / Emalene A. Manuel -- Plays. Strength of Indian women -- Song of the circle -- Journey through the past to the future -- Echoes of our Mothers' past -- Every warrior's song -- Stories. That grey building -- Theresa -- The letter -- The abyss -- Poetry. The storm -- Woman without a tongue -- Ghosts & predators -- L.A. Obsession song -- Addictions -- Lies -- Life abuse of girls -- The woman I could be -- Fools -- Loneliness -- Abused mothers, wounded fathers -- Hunger -- The Catholic Church -- Deadly legacy -- Keeping Secrets -- Forgiveness -- When I first came to know myself -- When my sister & I dance -- The girl who could catch fish with her hands -- Two brothers -- La Guerra -- Keepers in the dark -- Inheritance -- For the child who knew -- Never ever tell -- Ottawa -- The truth about colonization -- Justice -- Beric -- Christmas inside of me -- Spring fever -- Megcenetkwe -- Dying -- Afterwords. Narrative acts of truth and reconciliation: teaching the healing plays of Vera Manuel / by Michelle Coupal -- Embedded teachings: Vera Manuel's recovered short stories / Deanna Reder -- "Through poetry a community is brought together": Vera Manuel's poetry, poetry activism, and poetics / Joanne Arnott -- Appendix. Indians and residential school: a study of the breakdown of a culture / Vera Manuel
- Notes
- The "l " in Vera Manuel's (Kulilu Pal ki's) name on the title page appears as the International Phonetic Alphabet symbol for palatoalveolar click.
- ISBN
- 9780887558368
- Accession Number
- 2023.09
- Call Number
- 07.2 M31h
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- Archives Library
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Horse Toy, Animal
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact108.05.1002
- Date
- 1939
- Material
- wood; skin; glass
- Catalogue Number
- 108.05.1002
- Description
- Carved, elongated horse with buckskin saddle. Simply carved horse with short legs and long body. Padded buckskin "squaw" saddle trimmed with orange and light coloured beadwork. Extra piece of buckskin goes around saddle and girth of horse. In pencil on belly of horse "1939 Stoney".
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- Title
- Horse Toy, Animal
- Date
- 1939
- Material
- wood; skin; glass
- Dimensions
- 5.5 x 3.8 x 14.3 cm
- Description
- Carved, elongated horse with buckskin saddle. Simply carved horse with short legs and long body. Padded buckskin "squaw" saddle trimmed with orange and light coloured beadwork. Extra piece of buckskin goes around saddle and girth of horse. In pencil on belly of horse "1939 Stoney".
- Subject
- Indigenous
- households
- playthings
- horse
- Credit
- Gift of J. Monroe Thorington, Philadelphia, USA, 1969
- Catalogue Number
- 108.05.1002
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