Brenda Macdougall The HBCA E Private Records (E.1-E.227) contain myriad types of records created between 1811 and 1890, generated by individuals and families, organizational bodies, and significant events. They include everything from indexes for births, […]
Indian Affairs, Indian Pay Sheet Fisher River, 1878. Library and Archives Canada, Record Group 10 [Indian Affairs], volume 9353, reel C-7135 Library and Archives Canada, p. 132. Canadiana. https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_c7135/673 Immediately following Treaty negotiations in present-day […]
One of my favourite things to do on a road trip is stop at museums. This photo is from the Nicola Valley Museum and Archives (NVMA), a place I recently visited in Merritt, BC. I […]
Brenda Macdougall A few years ago, I acquired a book, Catholic Church Records of the Pacific Northwest: Vancouver, Vols I and II, and Stellamaris Mission (French Prairie Press, 1972), which was translated by Mikell de […]
Joe Cochrane. 1965. Interviewed by Margaret Stobie. IH-MS.026b/.023a, Margaret Stobie Fonds TC 24 (A1980-17). University of Manitoba Archives and Special Collections. Transcribed by Joanne Greenwood for the Indian History Film Project, Canadian Plains Research Centre, […]
History Indigenous Studies Roast and Toast Indigenous Historical Scholars! Let’s connect pre-NAISA Oklahoma! Join us to celebrate and critique the things about our disciplines that make us smile and the things that make us sigh. […]
Mary Jane Logan McCallum (University of Winnipeg) and Cody Groat (Western University) Amy Lonetree writes in her book Decolonizing Museums (2012), “Museums can be very painful sites for Native peoples, as they are intimately tied […]
Mary Jane McCallum For many, Indigenous history seems to unfold somewhere else, somewhere other than where one lives now. This separation from Indigenous histories is made worse when public histories are based in inadequate, false, […]
By History Department Indigenization Committee, University of Winnipeg[1] In 2022, the Tri-Council[2] formed an Ad Hoc Working Group on Indigenous Citizenship and Membership (The Group) to gather information to inform a policy to address academic identity fraud. The […]
Mary Jane Logan McCallum Winnipeg, 2023[1] In January and February of 2023, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba (CPSM) released its “Statement and Apology on Truth and Reconciliation and Indigenous-Specific Racism in Medical […]