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Mortar; Pestle

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Date: prior to 1900

Material: mineral

Catalogue Number: 104.19.1021 a,b

Description: Heavy oval shaped rock, 26.0x20.0x11.0 cm. with a round hole carved into centre, ca. 10.0 dia. at top. Nicely smoothed cavity. One quadrant has been broken off. Pestle is oblong 20.0 long and ca. 9.0 dia. at bottom. Shaped with rim above hand hold.

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Title: Mortar; Pestle

Date: prior to 1900

Material: mineral

Description: Heavy oval shaped rock, 26.0x20.0x11.0 cm. with a round hole carved into centre, ca. 10.0 dia. at top. Nicely smoothed cavity. One quadrant has been broken off. Pestle is oblong 20.0 long and ca. 9.0 dia. at bottom. Shaped with rim above hand hold.

Subject: households; Indigenous

Credit: Gift of Joe A. Brewster, Banff, 1980

Catalogue Number: 104.19.1021 a,b

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Mount Sir Donald Station

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Artist: William Notman (1826 – 1891)

Date: 1889

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: NoW.04.01

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Artist: William Notman (1826 – 1891)

Title: Mount Sir Donald Station

Date: 1889

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 33.5 x 22.6 cm

Subject: landscape; mountains; CPR

Credit: Purchased from Prints Old and Rare, San Francisco, USA, 1979

Catalogue Number: NoW.04.01

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Mountain with Lake

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Artist: Thomas Mower Martin, R. C. A. (1838 – 1934, Canadian)

Date: 1887 – 1897

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: MrT.05.02

Description: A snow covered mountain peak dominates centre of picture, in the foreground is a blue green lake, evergreen trees and rocks surround it, a pale, partly cloudy sky

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Artist: Thomas Mower Martin, R. C. A. (1838 – 1934, Canadian)

Title: Mountain with Lake

Date: 1887 – 1897

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 33.7 x 50.2 cm

Description: A snow covered mountain peak dominates centre of picture, in the foreground is a blue green lake, evergreen trees and rocks surround it, a pale, partly cloudy sky

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake

Credit: Purchased from Sotheby Parke Bernet (Canada) Ltd, Toronto, 1993

Catalogue Number: MrT.05.02

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Mt. Rundle, Vermilion Lakes, Banff, N.W.T.

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Artist: Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith, R. C. A. (1846 – 1923, Canadian)

Date: 1887

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: BeS.05.06

Description: Mt. Rundle with Vermilion Lakes in foreground. A figure in a canoe is on the shore of the lake in the lower centre of image.

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Artist: Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith, R. C. A. (1846 – 1923, Canadian)

Title: Mt. Rundle, Vermilion Lakes, Banff, N.W.T.

Date: 1887

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 33.5 x 48.6 cm

Description: Mt. Rundle with Vermilion Lakes in foreground. A figure in a canoe is on the shore of the lake in the lower centre of image.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; Mount Rundle; Vermilion Lakes; activity; canoeing

Credit: Gift of Ted and Judy Mills, Mill Bay, 2005

Catalogue Number: BeS.05.06

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Noon Time at Ike-No-Hata

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Artist: Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847 – 1915, Japanese)

Date: 1880

Medium: woodblock on paper

Catalogue Number: KiY.04.04

Description: winter scene with very grey sky, a man and a woman are crossing a snow-covered bridge carrying umbrellas,several snow-covered buildings in the distance

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Artist: Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847 – 1915, Japanese)

Title: Noon Time at Ike-No-Hata

Date: 1880

Medium: woodblock on paper

Dimensions: 24.4 x 36.5 cm

Description: winter scene with very grey sky, a man and a woman are crossing a snow-covered bridge carrying umbrellas,several snow-covered buildings in the distance

Subject: landscape; figure ;group

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: KiY.04.04

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Object lives and global histories in northern North America : material culture in motion, c. 1780-1980

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2021

Publisher: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press

Call Number: 07.2 L54o

Responsibility: Edited by Beverly Lemire, Laura Peers, and Anne Whitelaw

Publisher: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press

Published Date: 2021

Physical Description: x, [x], 450 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Museum; Museum Studies; Material culture; North America; Object; History; Indigenous; Indigenous Art

Abstract: Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America explores how close, collaborative looking can discern the traces of contact, exchange, and movement of objects and give them a life and political power in complex cross-cultural histories. Red River coats, prints of colonial places and peoples, Indigenous-made dolls, and an Englishwoman's collection provide case studies of art and material culture that correct and give nuance to global and imperial histories. The result of a collaborative research process involving Indigenous and non-Indigenous contributors, this book looks closely at the circumstances of making, use, and circulation of these objects: things that supported and defined both Indigenous resistance and colonial and imperial purposes. Contributors re-envision the histories of northern North America by focusing on the lives of things flowing to and from this vast region between the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries, showing how material culture is a critical link that tied this diverse landscape to the wider world. An original perspective on the history of northern North American peoples grounded in things, Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America provides a key analytical and methodological lens that exposes the complexity of cultural encounters and connections between local and global communities.-- Provided by publisher

Contents: Acknowledgments ; Maps ; Introduction / Beverly Lemire, Laura Peers, and Anne Whitelaw ; 1. Object lives: innovating methodology / Beverly Lemire, Laura Peers, and Anne Whitelaw ; Sidebar 1. Management and methodology / Beverly Lemire, Laura Peers, and Anne Whitelaw ; 2. Crossing worlds: hide coats, relationships, and identity in Rupert's Land and Britain / Laura Peers ; 3. "A typical Canadian outfit": the Red River coat / Cynthia Cooper ; Sidebar 2. The Huron-Wendat Capot / Cynthia Cooper ; Sidebar 3. The Red River coat and its commercial promotion / Cynthia Cooper ; 4. Colonizing winter: tobogganing, toboggan suits, and imperial agendas in the Northlands, c. 1800-1900 / Beverly Lemire ; Sidebar 4. Gifts of empire / Beverly Lemire ; 5. Peter Rindisbacher and the imagined North: circulations, realities, and representations / Julie-Ann Mercer ; 6. The wampum and the print: objects tied to Nicolas Vincent Tsawenhohi's London visit, 1824-1825 / Jonathan Lainey and Anne Whitelaw ; Sidebar 5. Active imperial networks / Jonathan Lainey and Anne Whitelaw ; 7. A brief history of the "Eskimo sweater" / Laurie K. Bertram ; 8. Clare Sheridan: British writer, sculptor, and collector in Blackfoot country, 1937 / Sarah Carter ; 9. Dolls, women's art, and Indigenous networks in the borderlands of northern North America, 1885-1945 / Katie Pollock ; 10. Dew claw bags, Indigenous women, and material culture in history and practice / Judy Half and Beverly Lemire ; 11. Inscribing the North West: hide jackets and colonial surveyors / Susan Berry ; Sidebar 6. Jackets in circulation / Susan Berry ; 12. From the sanatorium to the museum and beyond: the circulation of art and craft made by Indigenous patients at tuberculosis hospitals / Sara Komarnisky ; Figures ; Bibliography ; Contributors ; Index.

ISBN: 9780228003991

Accession Number: P2022.13

Call Number: 07.2 L54o

Collection: Archives Library

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Part of Old Banff

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Artist: D. Clark

Date: 1888

Medium: watercolour on heavy paper

Catalogue Number: CiD.05.01

Description: The oldest known painting of the Banff townsite. It shows Stoney Squaw to the left, Cascade to the right with Brewster in background. A false fronted building in left foreground has Groceries, dry goods, L.C. Fulmer written on front, bigger building to the right foreground Banff Hotel, Keefe, ????.…

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Artist: D. Clark

Title: Part of Old Banff

Date: 1888

Medium: watercolour on heavy paper

Dimensions: 21 x 35.5 cm

Description: The oldest known painting of the Banff townsite. It shows Stoney Squaw to the left, Cascade to the right with Brewster in background. A false fronted building in left foreground has Groceries, dry goods, L.C. Fulmer written on front, bigger building to the right foreground Banff Hotel, Keefe, ????. A log structure to centre left, a small red building centre right, five trees in centre, numerous stumps. The grass and trees are green. Along the bottom of the picture is inscribed: Part of original Banff Siding 29? 1888 Cascade Mtn 8K - D Clark, Agent CPR.Siding 29 was established in 1883 at the base of Cascade Mtn. The CPR moved the station to its current Banff location in 1889 and by 1897 all the residents of the old town had moved to the new town of Banff. Eleanor Luxton, Banff Canada’s First National Park... pg. 68

Subject: landscape; Banff

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1974

Catalogue Number: CiD.05.01

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Picturing indians : native Americans in film, 1941-1960

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2020

Author: Black, Liza

Publisher: Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska

Call Number: 07.2 B57p

Author: Black, Liza

Publisher: Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska

Published Date: 2020

Physical Description: xxi, 327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Indigenous; Film making; History; Colonialism

Abstract: Liza Black critically examines the inner workings of post-World War II American films and production studios, which cast American Indian extras and actors as Native people, forcing them to come face-to-face with mainstream representations of "Indianness." -- From by publisher

Contents: "Just Like a Snake You'll Be Crawling in Your Own Shit": American Indians and White Narcissism ; "Indians Agree to Perform and Act as Directed": Urban Indian (and Non-Indian) Actors ; "Not Desired by You for Photographing": The Labor of American Indian (and Non-Indian) Extras ; "White May Be More Than Skin Deep": Whites in Redface ; "A Bit Thick": The Transformation of Indians into Movie Indians ; "Dig Up a Good Indian Historian": The Search for Authenticity

ISBN: 9780803296800

Accession Number: P2022.02

Call Number: 07.2 B57p

Collection: Archives Library

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Plants, people, and places : the roles of ethnobotany and ethnoecology in Indigenous peoples' land rights in Canada and beyond

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2020

Publisher: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press

Call Number: 07.2 T85p

Responsibility: Edited by Nancy J. Turner

Publisher: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press

Published Date: 2020

Physical Description: xxxii, 480 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Indigenous; Indigenous Culture; Indigenous Traditions; Indigenous Peoples; Indigenous Customs; Plants, Edible; Plants, Medicinal

Abstract: For millennia, plants and their habitats have been fundamental to the lives of Indigenous Peoples--as sources of food and nutrition, medicines, and technological materials--and central to ceremonial traditions, spiritual beliefs, narratives, and language. While the First Peoples of Canada and other parts of the world have developed deep cultural understandings of plants and their environments, this knowledge is often underrecognized in debates about land rights and title, reconciliation, treaty negotiations, and traditional territories. Plants, People, and Places argues that the time is long past due to recognize and accommodate Indigenous Peoples' relationships with plants and their ecosystems. Essays in this volume, by leading voices in philosophy, Indigenous law, and environmental sustainability, consider the critical importance of botanical and ecological knowledge to land rights and related legal and government policy, planning, and decision making in Canada, the United States, Sweden, and New Zealand. Analyzing specific cases in which Indigenous Peoples' inherent rights to the environment have been denied or restricted, this collection promotes future prosperity through more effective and just recognition of the historical use of and care for plants in Indigenous cultures. A timely book featuring Indigenous perspectives on reconciliation, environmental sustainability, and pathways toward ethnoecological restoration, Plants, People, and Places reveals how much there is to learn from the history of human relationships with nature"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents: Introduction: Making a Place for Indigenous Botanical Knowledge and Environmental Values in Land-Use Planning and Decision Making / Nancy J. Turner, Pamela Spalding, and Douglas Deur (Moxmowisa) -- Living from the Land: Food Security and Food Sovereignty Today and into the Future / Jeannette Armstrong -- Nuuc aan ul Plants and Habitats as Reflected in Oral Traditions: Since Raven and Thunderbird Roamed / Marlene Atleo ( eh eh nah tuu kwiss) -- Tamarack and Tobacco / Aaron Mills -- Xa´xli'p Survival Territory: Colonialism, Industrial Land Use, and the Biocultural Sustainability of the Xa´xli'p within the Southern Interior of British Columbia / Arthur Adolph -- Understanding the Past for the Future: Archaeology, Plants, and First Nations' Land Use and Rights / Dana Lepofsky, Chelsey Geralda Armstrong, Darcy Mathews, and Spencer Greening -- Preparing Eden: Indigenous Land Use and European Settlement on Southern Vancouver Island / John Sutton Lutz -- A Place Called Pi´psell: An Indigenous Cultural Keystone Place, Mining, and Secwe´pemc Law / Marianne Ignace and Chief Ronald E. Ignace -- Traditional Plant Medicines and the Protection of Traditional Harvesting Sites / Letitia M. McCune and Alain Cuerrier -- From Traplines to Pipelines: Oil Sands and the Pollution of Berries and Sacred Lands from Northern Alberta to North Dakota / Linda Black Elk and Janelle Marie Baker -- The Legal Application of Ethnoecology: The Girjas Sami Village versus the Swedish State / Lars O¨stlund, Ingela Bergman, Camilla Sandstro¨m, and Malin Bra¨nnstro¨m -- Ta¯ne Mahuta: The Lord of the Forest in Aotearoa New Zealand, His Children, and the Law / Jacinta Ruru -- Cultivating the Imagined Wilderness: Contested Native American Plant Gathering Traditions in America's National Parks / Douglas Deur (Moxmowisa) and Justine E. James Jr -- Ki¯puka Kuleana: Restoring Reciprocity to Coastal Land Tenure and Resource Use in Hawai i / Monica Montgomery and Mehana Blaich Vaughan -- Right Relationships: Legal and Ethical Context for Indigenous Peoples' Land Rights and Responsibilities / Kelly Bannister -- Ethnoecology and Indigenous Legal Traditions in Environmental Governance / Deborah Curran and Val Napoleon -- Indigenous Environmental Stewardship: Do Mechanisms of Biodiversity Conservation Align with or Undermine It? / Monica E. Mulrennan and Ve´ronique Bussie`res -- Tsilhqot'in Nation Aboriginal Title: Ethnoecological and Ethnobotanical Evidence and the Roles and Obligations of the Expert Witness / David M. Robbins and Michael Bendle -- Plants, Habitats, and Litigation for Indigenous Peoples in Canada / Stuart Rush, QC -- Restorying Indigenous Landscapes: Community Restoration and Resurgence / Jeff Corntassel -- Partnerships of Hope: How Ethnoecology Can Support Robust Co-Management Agreements between Public Governments and Indigenous Peoples / Pamela Spalding -- "Passing It On": Renewal of Indigenous Plant Knowledge Systems and Indigenous Approaches to Education / Leigh Joseph (Styawat) -- On Resurgence and Transformative Reconciliation / James Tully -- Retrospective and Concluding Thoughts / Nancy J. Turner with E. Richard Atleo (Umeek) and John Ralston Saul -- Epilogue: Native Plants, Indigenous Societies, and the Land in Canada's Future / Douglas Deur (Moxmowisa), Nancy J. Turner (Galitsimg a), and Kim Recalma-Clutesi (Oqwilowgwa).

ISBN: 9780228001836

Accession Number: P2023.13

Call Number: 07.2 T85p

Collection: Archives Library

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Police Barracks in Banff

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Artist: William Hastings McMahon (1864 – 1956, Canadian)

Date: 1880 – 1929

Medium: watercolour, pen and ink on paper

Catalogue Number: McW.05.01

Description: Watercolour painting with pen and ink detailing. It is a landscape painting with 4 Mountains, blue skies, an evergreen forested area, leafy trees, bushes, a building with a red roof, yellow walls and a wood fence. The sky accounts for half the image surface, some mountain peaks and trees cross the …

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Artist: William Hastings McMahon (1864 – 1956, Canadian)

Title: Police Barracks in Banff

Date: 1880 – 1929

Medium: watercolour, pen and ink on paper

Dimensions: 19.05 x 30.48 cm

Description: Watercolour painting with pen and ink detailing. It is a landscape painting with 4 Mountains, blue skies, an evergreen forested area, leafy trees, bushes, a building with a red roof, yellow walls and a wood fence. The sky accounts for half the image surface, some mountain peaks and trees cross the center line and stretch into the sky. There are four birds, off centered, flying in the back ground. The forested area stretches over the mountain ranges, coming up just behind the building which is placed in the distance to the viewer. The left side of the image is surrounded by bushes and three large trees. There are four figures in the painting, two closer to the viewer with red coats, blue pants. They are placed in the middle at an opening in the gate. Another figure is on the right edge, riding a dark brown horse. the fourth figure is standing next to the building, too far to paint details. There is a white structure to the right of the building, Unidentified.

Subject: Royal Canadian Mounted Police; R.C.M.P; landscape; barrack; banff

Credit: Gift of Jack McMahon, Edmonton, 2018

Catalogue Number: McW.05.01

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The politics of the canoe

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2021

Publisher: Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press

Call Number: 07.2 E4t

Responsibility: Edited by Bruce Erickson and Sarah Wylie Krotz

Publisher: Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press

Published Date: 2021

Physical Description: xi, 256 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Indigenous; Canoeing; Politics; History; History-Canada; Water

Abstract: Popularly thought of as a recreational vehicle and one of the key ingredients of an ideal wilderness getaway, the canoe is also a political vessel. A potent symbol and practice of Indigenous cultures and traditions, the canoe has also been adopted to assert conservation ideals, feminist empowerment, citizenship practices, and multicultural goals. Documenting many of these various uses, this book asserts that the canoe is not merely a matter of leisure and pleasure; it is folded into many facets of our political life. Taking a critical stance on the canoe, The Politics of the Canoe expands and enlarges the stories that we tell about the canoe's relationship to, for example, colonialism, nationalism, environmentalism, and resource politics. To think about the canoe as a political vessel is to recognize how intertwined canoes are in the public life, governance, authority, social conditions, and ideologies of particular cultures, nations, and states. Almost everywhere we turn, and any way we look at it, the canoe both affects and is affected by complex political and cultural histories. Across Canada and the U.S., canoeing cultures have been born of activism and resistance as much as of adherence to the mythologies of wilderness and nation building. The essays in this volume show that canoes can enhance how we engage with and interpret not only our physical environments, but also our histories and present-day societies. -- From back cover

Contents: The Politics of the Canoe / Bruce Erickson and Sarah Wylie Krotz ; Tribal Canoe Journeys and Indigenous Cultural Resurgence: A Story from the Heiltsuk Nation / Frank Brown, Hillary Beattie, Vina Brown, and Ian Mauro ; This is What Makes Us Strong: Canoe Revitalization, Reciprocal Heritage, and the Chinnok Indian Nation / Rachel L. Cushman, Jon D. Daehnke, and Tony A. Johnson ; Whaehdoo Eto K'e / John B. Zoe and Jessica Dunkin ; Building Canoe, Knowledge, and Relationships ; Model Canoes, Territorial Histories, and Linguistic Resurgence: Decolonizing the Tappan Adney Archives / Chris Ling Chapman ; Ginawaydaganuc: The Birchbark Canoe in Algonquin Community Resurgence and Reconciliation / Chuck Commanda, Larry McDermott, and Sarah Nelson ; Beyond Birchbark: How Lahontan's Images of Unfamiliar Canores Confirm His Remarkable Western Expedition of 1688 / Peter H. Wood ; Monumental Trip: Don Starkell's Canoe Voyage from Winnipeg to the Mouth of the Amazon / Albert Braz ; The Dam That Wasn't: How the Canoe Became Political on the Petawa River / Cameron Baldassarra ; Unpacking and Repacking the Canoe: Canoe as Research Vessel / Danielle Gendron

ISBN: 9780887559099

Accession Number: P2022.03

Call Number: 07.2 E4t

Collection: Archives Library

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Remembering our relations : De¨nesu liné oral histories of Wood Buffalo National Park

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2023

Publisher: Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press

Call Number: 07.2 At3r

Responsibility: Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation with Sabina Trimble and Peter Fortna.

Publisher: Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press

Published Date: 2023

Physical Description: xxxiii, 307 pages cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Indigenous; Indigenous Culture; Indigenous Customs; Indigenous People; Indigenous Traditions; Oral History; Athabasca Chipewyan First Nations; Wood Buffalo National Park; Alberta; British Columbia

Abstract: Elders and leaders remind us that telling and amplifying histories is key for healing. Remembering Our Relations is an ambitious collaborative oral history project that shares the story of Wood Buffalo National Park and the De¨nesu line´ peoples it displaced. Wood Buffalo National Park is located in the heart of De¨nesu line´ homelands, where Dené people have lived from time immemorial. Central to the creation, expansion, and management of this park, Canada’s largest at nearly 45, 000 square kilometers, was the eviction of De¨nesu line´ people from their home, the forced separation of Dene families, and restriction of their Treaty rights. Remembering Our Relations tells the history of Wood Buffalo National Park from a Dene perspective and within the context of Treaty 8. Oral history and testimony from Dene Elders, knowledge-holders, leaders, and community members place De¨nesu line´ voices first. With supporting archival research, this book demonstrates how the founding, expansion, and management of Wood Buffalo National Park fits into a wider pattern of promises broken by settler colonial governments managing land use throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. By prioritizing De¨nesu line´ histories Remembering Our Relations deliberately challenges how Dene experiences have been erased, and how this erasure has been used to justify violence against De¨nesu line´ homelands and people. Amplifying the voices and lives of the past, present, and future, Remembering Our Relations is a crucial step in the journey for healing and justice De¨nesu line´ peoples have been pursuing for over a century. -- Provided by publisher.

ISBN: 9781773854113

Accession Number: P2024.02

Call Number: 07.2 At3r

Location: Reading Room

Collection: Archives Library

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Rifle Gun Barrels

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Date: 1884 – 1920

Material: metal

Catalogue Number: 104.04.1002 a-d

Description: 4 old gun barrels (a) Winchester 44, serial #268154, 66.0 long, diameter of bore 1.0, outside of barrel octagonal, two notches on underside of barrel; stamped on barrel: "Manufactured by the Winchester Repeating Arms Co. New Haven. Conn. U.S.A. Patented October 14, 1884"; stamped on underside of b…

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Title: Rifle Gun Barrels

Date: 1884 – 1920

Material: metal

Description: 4 old gun barrels (a) Winchester 44, serial #268154, 66.0 long, diameter of bore 1.0, outside of barrel octagonal, two notches on underside of barrel; stamped on barrel: "Manufactured by the Winchester Repeating Arms Co. New Haven. Conn. U.S.A. Patented October 14, 1884"; stamped on underside of barrel: “W”; “8”; “44”; “D”; and two maker’s marks (b) Winchester Model 67A, 75.6 long, diameter of bore 0.5, round barrel tapers slightly, notch cut into top of barrel near end. Stamped on barrel: "Made in New Haven, Conn.-Winchester Model 67A -U.S. of America - Trade Mark -22 S.L.ORL.R.-" (c) 76.4 long, diameter of bore 0.8, trigger intact, stamped near start of barrel: "Ross Rifle Co. Canada M-10 Patented" stamped on top of barrel: “E”; near the “E” there is a stamp with two flags, a crown, “16”, “D”, and “C”; “X” stamped on a piece of metal that surrounds the barrel; stamped on the underside of the barrel: “555B”; “X5” close to where magazine would be attached (d) 62.5 long, diameter of bore 0.5, stamped on top of barrel: "FabriqueNationale D'armes de Guerre Herstal-Belgique"; stamped on one side of the barrel: "R [star] C .22 L [logo]"; near the top of the barrel is an oval stamp containing three letters; stamped on the underside of the barrel: “3515”; “c”; and a small square around the letter “D”

Subject: Indigenous; hunting

Credit: Gift of Unknown, 1968

Catalogue Number: 104.04.1002 a-d

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Roach Headdress

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Date: 1880 – 1900

Material: hair; fibre; wood

Catalogue Number: 103.09.0081 a,b

Description: A roach headdress made from porcupine guard hairs sewn around the edge of a support made from braided strips of fabric stitched together in an elongated shape much in the same manner as a braided rug. The long porcupine hairs are of natural colour and fan open when the braided mat is attached to th…

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Title: Roach Headdress

Date: 1880 – 1900

Material: hair; fibre; wood

Dimensions: 8.0 x 42.0 cm

Description: A roach headdress made from porcupine guard hairs sewn around the edge of a support made from braided strips of fabric stitched together in an elongated shape much in the same manner as a braided rug. The long porcupine hairs are of natural colour and fan open when the braided mat is attached to the curvature of the head. A short length of cord has been stitched to the underside of the braided mat, with short lengths of heavy thread sewn at intervals along the edges. Stored with large carved b) club of wood inside to hold the form of the hairs smooth, and wrapped with a length of cord.

Subject: Indigenous; regalia; George McLean; Walking Buffalo; ceremonial

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 103.09.0081 a,b

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Royally wronged : the Royal Society of Canada and Indigenous Peoples

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2021

Publisher: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press

Call Number: 08.1 B12r

Responsibility: Edited by Constance Backhouse, Cynthia E. Milton, Margaret Kovach, and Adele Perry

Publisher: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press

Published Date: 2021

Physical Description: xvii, 365 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Royal Society of Canada; Indigenous; Canada; History; Colonialism

Abstract: The Royal Society of Canada's mandate is to elect to its membership scholars in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences, lending its seal of excellence to those who advance artistic and intellectual knowledge in Canada. Duncan Campbell Scott, one of the architects of the Indian residential school system in Canada, served as the society's president and dominated its activities; many other members - historically overwhelmingly white men - helped shape knowledge systems rooted in colonialism that have proven catastrophic for Indigenous communities. Written primarily by current Royal Society of Canada members, these essays explore the historical contribution of the RSC and of Canadian scholars to the production of ideas and policies that shored up white settler privilege, underpinning the disastrous interaction between Indigenous peoples and white settlers. Historical essays focus on the period from the RSC's founding in 1882 to the mid-twentiethcentury; later chapters bring the discussion to the present, documenting the first steps taken to change damaging patterns and challenging the society and Canadian scholars to make substantial strides toward a better future. The highly educated in Canadian society were not just bystanders: they deployed their knowledge and skills to abet colonialism. Royally Wronged dives deep into the RSC's history to learn why academia has more often been an aid to colonialism than a force against it, posing difficult questions about what is required to move meaningfully toward reconciliation.

Contents: Foreword / Cindy Blackstock ; Introduction: the Royal Society of Canada and the marginalization of Indigenous knowledge / Constance Backhouse and Cynthia E. Milton ; Rather of promise than of performance: tracing networks of knowledge and power through the Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, 1882-1922 / Ian Wereley ; Duncan Campbell Scott and the Royal Society of Canada: the legitimation of knowledge / Constance Backhouse ; "Perhaps the white man's God has willed it so": reconsidering the "Indian" poems of Pauline Johnson and Duncan Campbell Scott / Carole Gerson ; "Sooner or later they will be given the privelage [sic] asked for": Duncan Campbell Scott and the dispossession of Shoal Lake 40, 1913-14 / Adele Perry ; Three fellows in Mi'kma'ki: the power of the avocational / John G. Reid ; "Not a little disappointment": forging postcolonial academies from emulation and exclusion / Cynthia E. Milton ; Nostra culpa? Reflections on "The Indian in Canadian Historical Writing" / James W. St G. Walker ; Forensic anthropology and archaeology as tools for reconciliation in investigations into unmarked graves at Indian residential schools / Katherine L. Nichols, Eldon Yellowhorn, Deanna Reder, Emily Holland, Dongya Yang, John Albanese, Darian Kennedy, Elton Taylor, and Hugo F.V. Cardoso ; Confronting "Cognitive Imperialism": what reconstituting a contracts law school course is teaching me about law / Jane Bailey ; Murder they wrote: unknown knowns and Windsor Law's statement regarding R. v. Stanley / Reem Bahdi ; History in the public interest: teaching decolonization through the RSC Archive / Jennifer Evans, Meagan Breault, Ellis Buschek, Brittany Long, Sabrina Schoch, and David Siebert ; Cause and effect: the invisible barriers of the Royal Society of Canada / Joanna R. Quinn ; Memorandum to the Royal Society of Canada (2019) / Marie Battiste and James Sákéj Youngblood Henderson, endorsed / John Borrows, Margaret Kovach, Kiera Ladner, Vianne Timmons, and Jacqueline Ottmann ; Golden Eagle Rising: a conversation on Indigenous knowledge and the Royal Society of Canada / Shain Jackson and Cynthia E. Milton ; Afterword: closing circle words / Margaret Kovach

ISBN: 9780228009115

Accession Number: P2022.13

Call Number: 08.1 B12r

Collection: Archives Library

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Rural English Scene

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Date: c. 1890

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: CoJ.05.62

Description: A tree sits on the left side, and is circled by a road. A bridge sits on the right side, with trees and a town visible in the centre background.

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Title: Rural English Scene

Date: c. 1890

Medium: watercolour on paper

Description: A tree sits on the left side, and is circled by a road. A bridge sits on the right side, with trees and a town visible in the centre background.

Subject: landscape; trees; town; bridge; houses

Credit: Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1997

Catalogue Number: CoJ.05.62

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Rusty Disk

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Date: c. 1885

Medium: graphite on paper board

Catalogue Number: CoJ.03.071

Description: Drawing of a farming disc, the first few discs are show as the disappear into the piece, and the seat sits high up on the piece.“An unlikely combination of practical entrepreneur and preoccupied artist, Collings was involved with farm machinery sales between 1882 and 1888 in England. A writer who i…

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Title: Rusty Disk

Date: c. 1885

Medium: graphite on paper board

Dimensions: 25 x 30 cm

Description: Drawing of a farming disc, the first few discs are show as the disappear into the piece, and the seat sits high up on the piece.“An unlikely combination of practical entrepreneur and preoccupied artist, Collings was involved with farm machinery sales between 1882 and 1888 in England. A writer who interviewed the artist in 1924 had the impression that Collings envisaged farm equipment as means for creating an enormous painting-like but three-dimensional “landscape.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Heath