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A warrior I have been : Plains Indian cultures in transition : the Richard Green collection of Plains Indian art

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2004
Author
Green, Richard
Publisher
Folsom, LA : Written Heritage
Call Number
07.2 Gr82a
Author
Green, Richard
Responsibility
Richard Green
Publisher
Folsom, LA : Written Heritage
Published Date
2004
Physical Description
205 pages : illustrations (some color), maps
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
First Nations
Art
Stoney First Nation (formerly known as Stoney Indians)
Crawler, Hector
Harmon, Byron
Banff Indian Days
Calgary Stampede
Abstract
Pertains to the collection of Indigenous Peoples materials from the private collection of Richard Green
Contents
Acknowledgments, foreword / Carole Morris -- Introduction / Michael G. Johnson -- Behold these things : Northern Plains parade regalia -- Something splendid I wear : Plains trade cloth dresses -- In paint and feathers : on tour with Pahaska -- Some honor I seek : Sioux Indians in early photographs -- White man's vision : evolving stereotypes of the Plains Indian -- The catalog : reservation period Plains Indian art -- The warrior's world : weapons, clothing, trade cloth clothing, non-native influences, dance regalia -- The women's world : tools and implements, tipi furniture, clothing -- Childhood -- Horsegear -- Tobacco bags -- Bags and pouches -- Moccasins -- Made for sale -- Maps -- Bibliography.
Notes
Includes photographs by Byron Harmon of Stoney Nakoda Peoples, specifically Hector Crawler, Mark Poucette and other unnamed people at Banff Indian Days and the Calgary Stampede
ISBN
096714941X
Accession Number
TBD
Call Number
07.2 Gr82a
Collection
Archives Library
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Indians in the Rockies

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19886
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1985
Author
Whyte, Jon
Publisher
Banff, Alta., Canada : Altitude Pub.
Call Number
07.2 W62i
Author
Whyte, Jon
Responsibility
Jon Whyte
Publisher
Banff, Alta., Canada : Altitude Pub.
Published Date
1985
Physical Description
128 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
First Nations
Banff Indian Days
Rocky Mountains
Banff
First Nations (SEE ALSO Indians)
Abstract
Pertains to the history and movement of Indigenous Peoples into the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Written through a colonial perspective, author Jon Whyte offers his insight into Indigenous culture and the ways in which settlers were dependent on traditional Indigenous knowledge upon their arrival in North America. The book follows the migration of Indigenous Peoples into the valley of the Rocky Mountains.
Contents
Foreward (pg. 7)
Introduction (pg. 11)
The first hundred centuries (pg. 15)
The mountain peoples (pg. 23)
Strangers in the land (pg. 37)
Calling cards 1840-1870 (pg. 41)
The art of beadwork (pg. 51)
Capital in reserve (pg. 55)
Civilization: its discontents (pg. 61)
Indian Days (pg. 71)
All our yesterdays (pg. 81)
Portfolio (pg. 85)
Epilogue (pg. 122)
Acknowledgments (pg. 123)
Bibliography (pg. 127)
About the author (pg. 128)
ISBN
0919381154
Accession Number
2019.60
Call Number
07.2 W62i
Collection
Archives Library
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Spirits of the Rockies : reasserting an indigenous presence in Banff National Park

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2014
Author
Mason, Courtney W.
Publisher
Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
Call Number
07.2 M37s c.1
07.2 M37s c.2
Author
Mason, Courtney W.
Responsibility
Courtney W. Mason; foreword by Roland Rollinmud and Ian A. L. Getty
Publisher
Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
Published Date
2014
Physical Description
xvi, 195 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), colour map, portraits (some colour) ; 24 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Banff Indian Days
Banff Springs Hotel
First Nations
Hunting
Missionaries
Morley
Racism
Religion
Residential schools
Stoney First Nation (formerly known as Stoney Indians)
Tourism
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents: Chapter 1 Theorizing power relations in colonial histories. -- Chapter 2 Colonial encounters: Treaty 7, Missionaries and the contraints of the reserve system. -- Chapter 3 The repression of indigenous subsistence practices in Roocky Mountains Park. -- Chapter 4 Sporting and tourism festivals: representations of indigenous peoples. -- Chapter 5 Rethinking the Banff Indian Days as critical spaces of cultural exchange. --Chapter 6 Looking back and pushing ahead
ISBN
9781442626683
Accession Number
P2015-09-03
2015.8518
Call Number
07.2 M37s c.1
07.2 M37s c.2
Collection
Archives Library
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Date
1969
Material
metal; cord
Catalogue Number
103.07.0318
Description
A bolo style tie made of woven green cord that is capped with heavy silver metal tips at each end and held together at the neck with a silver coin. Coin has bust of a man in a bison hair and horn headdress with “BANFF CANADA” above “KIWANIS DOLLAR” below and “expires sept 30. 69” on either side. Ob…
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Bolo Necktie
Date
1969
Material
metal; cord
Dimensions
3.5 x 43.5 cm
Description
A bolo style tie made of woven green cord that is capped with heavy silver metal tips at each end and held together at the neck with a silver coin. Coin has bust of a man in a bison hair and horn headdress with “BANFF CANADA” above “KIWANIS DOLLAR” below and “expires sept 30. 69” on either side. Obverse is partly obscured by mounting hardware but reads “INDIAN DAYS” at top and “1889-1969 VALUE ONE DOLLAR IN BANFF” at bottom.
Subject
Whyte home
Banff Indian Days
souvenir
First Nations
[George McLean?]
Charlie Beil
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
103.07.0318
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Banff Indian Days panoramic photographs

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Part Of
Luxton family fonds
Scope & Content
Files consists of panorama photographs of Banff Indian Days, largely portraits of identified and unidentified Indigenous people, and camp at the base of Cascade Mountain. Some photographs have copy prints of varying paper textures. One negative, NA - 27, has three black and white prints, one print …
Date Range
[ca.1910s]
Reference Code
LUX / I / D3a / 10 / NA - 23 to NA - 33
Description Level
5 / File
GMD
Photograph
Negative
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Part Of
Luxton family fonds
Description Level
5 / File
Fonds Number
LUX
Series
LUX / I / D : Personal and professional
Sous-Fonds
LUX / I : Norman Luxton sous-fonds
Sub-Series
LUX / I / D / 3 : Organizations
Accession Number
LUX
Reference Code
LUX / I / D3a / 10 / NA - 23 to NA - 33
GMD
Photograph
Negative
Date Range
[ca.1910s]
Physical Description
11 photograph : b&w negatives ; 30.2 x 9.8 cm
Scope & Content
Files consists of panorama photographs of Banff Indian Days, largely portraits of identified and unidentified Indigenous people, and camp at the base of Cascade Mountain. Some photographs have copy prints of varying paper textures. One negative, NA - 27, has three black and white prints, one print has been hand-coloured.
Name Access
Crawler, Hector
Dogtail, Philip
Englishman, Johnny
Hunter, Elijah
Kaquitts, Benjamin
Kaquitts, Tom
Luxton, Georgina
McLean, George
Wesley, Mary
Jimmyjohn, Susan
Poucette, Mark
Subject Access
Banff Indian Days
First Nations
Indigenous Peoples
Cascade Mountain
Geographic Access
Alberta
Banff
Banff National Park
Conservation
All show some shift towards a yellowing film base, in particular NA - 33 NA - 28 shows notable nitrate detrioartion of the emulsion with amber discolouration and mirroring.
Processing Status
Processed
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Mark Poucette and Susan Jimmyjohn, Stoney Nakoda

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Part Of
Luxton family fonds
Scope & Content
Item consists of photograph of Mark Poucette and Susan Jimmyjohn, Stoney Nakoda. Attached to the negative is a cardboard mat with crop marks.
Date Range
[ca. 1910s]
Reference Code
LUX / I / D3a / 10 / NA - 25
Description Level
6 / Item
GMD
Photograph
Negative
  3 images  
Part Of
Luxton family fonds
Description Level
6 / Item
Fonds Number
LUX
Series
LUX / 1 / D : Personal and professional;
Sous-Fonds
LUX / 1 : Norman Luxton sous-fonds
Sub-Series
LUX / 1 / D / 3 : Organizations
Accession Number
LUX
Reference Code
LUX / I / D3a / 10 / NA - 25
GMD
Photograph
Negative
Date Range
[ca. 1910s]
Physical Description
1 photograph : 1 b&w negative ; 31.6 x 9.6 cm
Scope & Content
Item consists of photograph of Mark Poucette and Susan Jimmyjohn, Stoney Nakoda. Attached to the negative is a cardboard mat with crop marks.
Name Access
Jimmyjohn, Susan
Poucette, Mark
Subject Access
Banff Indian Days
First Nations
Indigenous Peoples
Stoney Nakoda
Stoney
Geographic Access
Alberta
Title Source
Stoney Nakoda Elders provided naming and other culturally relevant information during interviews held for Recognizing Relations, an archives initiative active from 2014-2023.
The goal of this initiative was to name local Indigenous peoples in photographs held in the WMCR archives as well as encouraging access for Indigenous communities to these images.
Processing Status
Processed
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Banff Indian Days panoramic photographs

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Part Of
Luxton family fonds
Scope & Content
Files consists of panorama photographs of Banff Indian Days, largely photographs of unidentified Indigenous people, and camp at the base of Cascade Mountain. Possibly includes photos of Tom Wilson and Jack Clarke.
Date Range
[ca.1910s]
Reference Code
LUX / I / D3a / 11
Description Level
5 / File
GMD
Photograph
Negative
  11 images  
Part Of
Luxton family fonds
Description Level
5 / File
Fonds Number
LUX
Series
LUX / I / D : Personal and professional
Sous-Fonds
LUX / I : Norman Luxton sous-fonds
Sub-Series
LUX / I / D / 3 : Organizations
Accession Number
LUX
Reference Code
LUX / I / D3a / 11
GMD
Photograph
Negative
Date Range
[ca.1910s]
Physical Description
11 photograph : b&w negatives ; 30.2 x 9.8 cm
Scope & Content
Files consists of panorama photographs of Banff Indian Days, largely photographs of unidentified Indigenous people, and camp at the base of Cascade Mountain. Possibly includes photos of Tom Wilson and Jack Clarke.
Notes
Some photographs have copy prints of varying paper textures. One negative, NA - 41, has a hand-coloured print. NA - 35 is annotated "Copyright Lux Banff" and NA - 39 is annotated "Copyright Luxton Banff" NA - 36 is not in the folder.
Name Access
Wilson, Tom
Subject Access
Banff Indian Days
First Nations
Indigenous Peoples
Cascade Mountain
Geographic Access
Alberta
Banff
Banff National Park
Language
English
Processing Status
Processed
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Banff Indian Days panoramic photographs

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Part Of
Luxton family fonds
Scope & Content
Files consists of panorama photograph prints and negatives of Banff Indian Days, camps, a log cabin and staged battle scenes with unidentified people. Some photos have copy prints. Included is a Kodak Iris paper envelope with annotations.
Date Range
1907
[ca.1910s]
1913
1915
Reference Code
LUX / I / D3a / 12 / NA - 45 to NA - 54 LUX / I / D3a / 12 / PA - 1 to PA - 9
Description Level
5 / File
GMD
Photograph
Negative
  25 images  
Part Of
Luxton family fonds
Description Level
5 / File
Fonds Number
LUX
Series
LUX / I / D : Personal and professional
Sous-Fonds
LUX / I : Norman Luxton sous-fonds
Sub-Series
LUX / I / D / 3 : Organizations
Accession Number
LUX
Reference Code
LUX / I / D3a / 12 / NA - 45 to NA - 54 LUX / I / D3a / 12 / PA - 1 to PA - 9
GMD
Photograph
Negative
Date Range
1907
[ca.1910s]
1913
1915
Physical Description
19 photograph : 10 b&w negatives ; 30.2 x 9.8 cm : 9 b&w photographs ; 30.2 x 10 cm or smaller
Scope & Content
Files consists of panorama photograph prints and negatives of Banff Indian Days, camps, a log cabin and staged battle scenes with unidentified people. Some photos have copy prints. Included is a Kodak Iris paper envelope with annotations.
Subject Access
Banff Indian Days
First Nations
Indigenous Peoples
Cascade Mountain
Geographic Access
Alberta
Banff
Banff National Park
Language
English
Processing Status
Processed
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Unknown people in regalia on horseback, Banff Indian Days parade on Banff Avenue

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Part Of
Luxton family fonds
Scope & Content
[Unknown]
Date Range
ca.1910
Reference Code
LUX / I / D3a / 14 / NA - 30
Description Level
6 / Item
GMD
Photograph
Negative
  1 image  
Part Of
Luxton family fonds
Description Level
6 / Item
Fonds Number
LUX
Sous-Fonds
LUX
Accession Number
n/a
Reference Code
LUX / I / D3a / 14 / NA - 30
GMD
Photograph
Negative
Date Range
ca.1910
Physical Description
Negative
Scope & Content
[Unknown]
Subject Access
Banff Indian Days
First Nations
Indigenous Peoples
Parades
Geographic Access
Alberta
Language
English
Title Source
Stoney Nakoda Elders provided naming and other culturally relevant information during interviews held for Recognizing Relations, an archives initiative active from 2014-2023. The goal of this initiative was to name local Indigenous peoples in photog
The goal of this initiative was to name local Indigenous peoples in photographs held in the WMCR archives as well as encouraging access for Indigenous communities to these images.
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Group of men speaking to Norman Luxton (at centre in a suit)

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Part Of
Luxton family fonds
Scope & Content
[Group of men speaking to Norman Luxton (at centre in a suit)]
Date Range
ca.1910
Reference Code
LUX / I / D3a / 14 / NA - 31
Description Level
6 / Item
GMD
Photograph
Negative
  1 image  
Part Of
Luxton family fonds
Description Level
6 / Item
Fonds Number
LUX
Sous-Fonds
LUX
Accession Number
n/a
Reference Code
LUX / I / D3a / 14 / NA - 31
GMD
Photograph
Negative
Date Range
ca.1910
Physical Description
Negative
Scope & Content
[Group of men speaking to Norman Luxton (at centre in a suit)]
Name Access
Luxton, Norman
Subject Access
Banff Indian Days
First Nations
Indigenous Peoples
Geographic Access
Alberta
Language
English
Title Source
Stoney Nakoda Elders provided naming and other culturally relevant information during interviews held for Recognizing Relations, an archives initiative active from 2014-2023. . No identification was possible.
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