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Ancestors : indigenous peoples of Western Canada in historic photographs

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25527
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2021
Publisher
Edmonton, Alberta : University of Alberta Library
Call Number
07.2 C24a
07.2 C24a copy 2
Responsibility
Edited by Sarah Carter and Inez Lightning
Publisher
Edmonton, Alberta : University of Alberta Library
Published Date
2021
Physical Description
x, 188 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 x 24 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
Photography
History
History of Alberta
Western Canada
Colonialism
Abstract
This exhibition catalogue introduces historic photographs of Indigenous peoples of Western Canada from a collection housed at the University of Alberta's Bruce Peel Special Collections. The publication focuses on the ancestors represented in the collection and how their images continue to generate stories and meanings in the present. The selected photographs contribute to a richer, deeper understanding of the past. There is strength, character, persistence, determination, artwork, humour, dance, celebration, and so much more in the photographs. Some serve as records of cherished landscapes that may have been altered. Others provide links to ancestors: revered leaders, soldiers, healers, thinkers, and orators. The curators hope that the process of identifying the people in these photographs, only begun here, will continue. (Provided by Publisher)
Contents
Foreword / Chief Willie Littlechild ; The nature of the collection and its challenges ; Western Canada in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries ; The aims of the curators ; The Exhibition
ISBN
9781551954547
Accession Number
P2022.05
Call Number
07.2 C24a
07.2 C24a copy 2
Collection
Archives Library
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Bucking conservatism : alternative stories of Alberta from the 1960s and 1970s

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25529
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2021
Publisher
Edmonton, Alberta : AU Press
Call Number
08.1 B38b
Responsibility
Edited by Leon Crane Bear, Larry Hannant, and Karissa Robyn Patton
Publisher
Edmonton, Alberta : AU Press
Published Date
2021
Physical Description
xxx, 333 pages; 24 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Politics
History of Alberta
Indigenous
Feminism
Activism
Resistance
Heteropatriarchy
Environmentalism
Abstract
Highlights the individuals and groups who challenged Alberta's conservative status quo in the 1960s and 70s. Drawing on archival records, newspaper articles, police reports, and interviews, the contributors examine Alberta's history through the eyes of Indigenous activists protesting discriminatory legislation and unfulfilled treaty obligations, women and lesbian and gay persons standing up to the heteropatriarchy, student activists seeking to forge a new democracy, and anti-capitalist environmentalists demanding social change. This book uncovers the lasting influence of Alberta's noncomformists--those who recognized the need for dissent in a province defined by wealth and right-wing politics--and poses thought-provoking questions for contemporary activists. -- Provided by publisher
Contents
Indian Status as the Foundation of Justice / Leon Crane Bear ; Teaching It Our Way: Blue Quills and the Demand for Indigenous Educational Autonomy / Tarisa Dawn Little ; "We are on the outside looking in [. . .]. But we are still Indians": Alberta Indigenous Women Fighting for Status Rights, 1968-85 / Corinne George ; Fed Up with Status Quo: Alberta Women's Groups Challenge Maternalist Ideology and Secure Provincial Funding for Daycare, 1964-71 ; Gay Liberation in Conservative Calgary / Nevena Ivanovic, Kevin Allen, and Larry Hannan ; Contraception, Community, and Controversy: The Lethbridge Birth Control and Information Centre, 1972-78 / Karissa Robyn Patton ; "Ultra Activists" in a "Very Closeted Place": The Early Years of Edmonton's Gay Alliance Toward Equality, 1972-77 / Erin Gallagher-Cohoon ; Daring to Be Left in Social Credit Alberta: Recollections of a Young Democratic Party Activist in the 1960s / Ken Novakowski ; Socialist Survival: The Woodsworth-Irvine Socialist Fellowship and the Preservation of Radical Thought in Alberta / Mack Penner ; Learning Marxism from Tom Flanagan: Left-Wing Activism at the University of Calgary in the Late 1960s and Early 1970s / Larry Hamnant ; Drop In, Hang Out, and Crash: Outreach Programs for Transient Youth and War Resisters in Edmonton / Baldwin Reichwein and PearlAnn Reichwein ; Solidarity on the Cricket Pitch: Confronting South African Apartheid in Edmonton / Larry Hannant ; From Nuclear Disarmament to Raging Granny: A Recollection of Peace Activism and Environmental Advocacy in the 1960s and 1970s / Louise Swift ; The Mill Creek Park Movement and Citizen Activism in Edmonton, 1964-75 / PearlAnn Reichwein and Jan Olson ; "A Lot of Heifer-Dust": Alberta Maverick Marion Nicoll and Abstract Art / Jennifer E. Salahub ; Land and Love in the Rockies: The Poetic Politics of Sid Marty and Headwaters / PearlAnn Reichwein ; Death of a Delta / Tom Radford ; Conclusion: Bucking Conservatism, Then and Now / Karissa Robyn Patton and Mack Penner
ISBN
9781771992572
Accession Number
P2021.03
Call Number
08.1 B38b
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
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
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
Collection
Archives Library
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The Hudson's Bay Company : Edmonton House journals, correspondence, and reports, 1806-1821

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25541
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2017
Publisher
Calgary, Alberta : Historical Society of Alberta
Call Number
08.2 B51t
Responsibility
Edited with an introduction by Ted Binnema and Gerhard J. Ens
Publisher
Calgary, Alberta : Historical Society of Alberta
Published Date
2017
Physical Description
530 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Series
Edmonton House Journals
Subjects
Hudson's Bay Company
Politics
Colonialism
History-Canada
History of Alberta
Indigenous
Abstract
In 1795 the Hudson's Bay Company established Edmonton House and the North West Company Fort Augustus a few kilometres downstream from the present day city of Edmonton. Although both posts were moved several times, they operated side by side as the major administrative, trade, and provisioning centres on the North Saskatchewan River from 1795 to 1821, when the companies merged. The post journals and district reports from Edmonton House for the period from 1806 to 1821 are reproduced verbatim in this volume. Long available only to researchers with access to the collections of the Hudson's Bay Company Archives, these journals and district reports provide a detailed day-by-day account of the operations of Edmonton House during this crucial period. They provide direct insight into the Aboriginal, social, and economic history of the region, and new information on the foundation of the Red River settlement adn the struggle for control of the trade in the Athabasca region. -- From back cover
Contents
Edmonton House Post Journals, 1806-1921 ; District Reports, 1816-1821
ISBN
9780929123202
Accession Number
P2022.08
Call Number
08.2 B51t
Collection
Archives Library
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Remembering our relations : De¨nesu liné oral histories of Wood Buffalo National Park

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26250
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
Collection
Archives Library
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Date
1954 – 1955
Material
metal; plastic
Catalogue Number
105.02.0086 a,b
Description
Two Alberta Jubilee commemorative medals given to Alberta's Indigenous people. Both identical size discs with top ring for ribbon attachment chrome plated. One face shows hand shake, horizon and sun surrounded by printed "Friendship, Loyalty, Progress". Observe face shows Alberta Provincial crest s…
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Title
Commemorative Medal
Date
1954 – 1955
Material
metal; plastic
Dimensions
0.2 x 6.4 cm
Description
Two Alberta Jubilee commemorative medals given to Alberta's Indigenous people. Both identical size discs with top ring for ribbon attachment chrome plated. One face shows hand shake, horizon and sun surrounded by printed "Friendship, Loyalty, Progress". Observe face shows Alberta Provincial crest surrounded by "Alberta Golden Jubliee 1905-1955". Encased in white box also containing red, white, blue striped nylon ribbon, solid copper, one face shows engraved hand shake, mountain horizon and sun surrounded by stamped lettering "Friendship, Loyalty, Progress" observe face un cast but has been scratched "1955" plus unclear "Jutey in ay" ? medal attached to faded red, white,blue ribbon.
Subject
Indigenous
Alberta Golden Jubilee
Noah Goat
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
105.02.0086 a,b
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Date
1955
Material
metal; fibre
Catalogue Number
105.02.3004
Description
Silver coloured medal with hanging bar. Centre is the Alberta crest with "Alberta Golden Jubilee 1905 1955" around edge. Other side "Friendship Loyalty Progress. Hanging bar, with striped cloth tied on, "Western Airlines" with profile of head with headdress and “JR. STEWARDESS.”
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Title
Commemorative Medal
Date
1955
Material
metal; fibre
Dimensions
6.4 x 6.4 cm
Description
Silver coloured medal with hanging bar. Centre is the Alberta crest with "Alberta Golden Jubilee 1905 1955" around edge. Other side "Friendship Loyalty Progress. Hanging bar, with striped cloth tied on, "Western Airlines" with profile of head with headdress and “JR. STEWARDESS.”
Subject
Indigenous
Alberta Golden Jubilee
travel
souvenirs
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
105.02.3004
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Date
1972
Material
metal; fibre
Catalogue Number
103.09.3043 a-c
Description
Three identical round silver coloured medals, each with a hanging ring soldered to the top. One side around edge "Alberta Golden Jubilee 1905 - 1955" with Alberta Coat of Arms in centre. Other side "Friendship Loyalty Progress" and in the centre two hands shaking, one with Indigenous designs on…
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Title
Commemorative Medal
Date
1972
Material
metal; fibre
Dimensions
6.0 x 6.0 cm
Description
Three identical round silver coloured medals, each with a hanging ring soldered to the top. One side around edge "Alberta Golden Jubilee 1905 - 1955" with Alberta Coat of Arms in centre. Other side "Friendship Loyalty Progress" and in the centre two hands shaking, one with Indigenous designs on coat cuff, below a beaming sun. (a) Tag in CRW's writing: "Belongs to Cinderella Simeon was her Mothers July 26 1969." (b) Red, white and blue ribbon attached. Tag in CRW's writing: "Feb. 2 1972 Sophia (Crawes?) wife of Beaver who predicted weather. Pounded. Laurier Hunter brought it -up”.(c) Tag in CRW's writing: "Belonged to Moses Bear - Sept 1 1970 Christine Stevens Nordegg."
Subject
Alberta Golden Jubilee
Indigenous
Stoney
Cinderella Simeon
Laurier Hunter
Moses Bear
souvenir
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
103.09.3043 a-c
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Date
1970
Material
metal
Catalogue Number
103.09.3044 a,b
Description
Two identical round silver coloured medals, each with a hanging ring soldered to the top. One side around edge "Alberta Golden Jubilee 1905 - 1955" with Alberta Coat of Arms in centre. Other side "Friendship Loyalty Progress" and in the centre two hands shaking, one with Indigenous designs on c…
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Title
Commemorative Medal
Date
1970
Material
metal
Dimensions
6.0 x 6.0 cm
Description
Two identical round silver coloured medals, each with a hanging ring soldered to the top. One side around edge "Alberta Golden Jubilee 1905 - 1955" with Alberta Coat of Arms in centre. Other side "Friendship Loyalty Progress" and in the centre two hands shaking, one with Indigenous designs on coat cuff, below a beaming sun. (a) Tag CRW's writing: "Joe Abraham Sept 1 1970." (b) Tag CRW's writing: "William Hunter will pay with pension Aug 25 1969."
Subject
Alberta Golden Jubilee
Indigenous
Stoney
Joe Abraham
William Hunter
souvenir
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
103.09.3044 a,b
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Date
prior to 1970
Material
metal; fibre
Catalogue Number
103.09.3045
Description
Copper medal with a hanging ring soldered to the top. One side has engraving "Friendship Loyalty Progress" around edge with two hands shaking at centre, one with Indigenous designs on coat cuff, below mountains and a beaming sun. Long red, white and blue ribbon tied onto hanging ring.
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Title
Commemorative Medal
Date
prior to 1970
Material
metal; fibre
Dimensions
6.0 x 6.0 cm
Description
Copper medal with a hanging ring soldered to the top. One side has engraving "Friendship Loyalty Progress" around edge with two hands shaking at centre, one with Indigenous designs on coat cuff, below mountains and a beaming sun. Long red, white and blue ribbon tied onto hanging ring.
Subject
Alberta Golden Jubilee
Indigenous
Stoney
souvenir
crafts
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
103.09.3045
Images
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