Indigenous People, Archives and History
By Mary Jane Logan McCallum This essay is based on a lecture given as part of the Weweni Lecture Series at the University of Winnipeg on March 7, 2018.[1] The Weweni Lecture series is designed […]
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Historians and Indigenous Genocide in Saskatchewan
By Robert Alexander Innes As a result of the Calls to Action released by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) the notion that Indigenous people endured cultural genocide has garnered much discussion. For many, who […]
Clearing the Plains of Accountability
By Robert Alexander Innes Dewdney Avenue runs east–west through the entire length of the city of Regina, the capital of Saskatchewan: past the RCMP Academy in the west end, skirting the iconic (new) Mosaic Stadium, […]
Identity, Appropriation, and Imposters: What do our Aadizookaanag (sacred stories) tell us?
By Alan Corbiere Perhaps appropriation of identity started with Grey Owl aka Archie Belaney, and spread to Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, aka Sylvester Clarke Long, but it has continued to our present day with […]
Turning the Lens: Indigenous Archival Photo Project
By Paul Seesequasis The genesis of the Indigenous Archival Photo Project was three years ago, when my mother, a residential school survivor of St. Micheals Residential School at Duck Lake, commented that there were not […]
Ways of Knowing: Promising New Directions for Métis Research: Promoting Metis-focused Scholarship
By Brenda Macdougall On 27, 28, and 29 April 2018 the authors co-hosted the “Ways of Knowing: Promising New Directions for Métis Research” at the Lord Elgin Hotel in Ottawa for an audience primarily, but […]
‘their brains were like paper’: Narrative Strategies in Indigenous Oral Histories
By Winona Wheeler “…our ancestors had no other way to keep the sacred promises [Treaties] given to them, only by memory. They said then their brains were like paper.”[1] Chief Abel McLeod, c.1946 Archival repositories […]