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Star-Phoenix, October 14,1939
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This newspaper slipping states that eighteen men from Mistawasis joined the military.
Articles where Mistawasis is mentioned.
-Spirit of Chief Mistawasis Who Signed No. 6 Treaty Lives on.
-Indians Join the Colours
-With Indian Battalion
-Big Harvest Over
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The Aboriginal Rights Provisions in the Constitution Act, 1982
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--Description taken from "The Aboriginal Rights Provisions in the Constitution Act, 1982"--
This thesis is a legal analysis of the provisions in the Constitution Act, 1982 which protect the aboriginal and treaty rights of the aboriginal peoples o f Canada: section 25 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and section 35 of the ConstitutionAct, 1982...
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The Bismarck Tribune, November 8, 1919
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This newspaper clipping says that 68,000 acres of land that was initially owned by Indigenous people have now been obtained and have been given to the Soldier Settlement Board. The Bismarck Tribune says that the area that was sold had sold anywhere from 10$ to 20$ for an acre. The article mentions all the communities that sold their property and how much of the property they sold.
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The Blackfoot Farming Experiment 1880-1945
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--Description taken from"Blackfoot Farming Experiment 1880-1945"--
This thesis argues that the Department of Indian Affairs wished to make the Blackfoot Indians into farmers as a way to end
their economic dependence upon the government of Canada and as a means of assimilating them into the dominant Anglo-Canadian
culture. The Department's economic ends were gained temporarily during the 1910s and 1920s., but the farming program was not able
to adapt to changes in prairie farm conditions in the 1930s and 1940s. Agriculture also proved an ineffective tool for assimilation of
the Blackfoot, as many of the Blackfoot participants in the farming program favoured the retention of important Blackfoot values such
as generosity. The Blackfoot were willing to farm, but not to give up all aspects of their Indian culture.
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The Building Skills, Building Homes Project
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Written by Carol Vandale, the Building Skills, Building Homes Project, is about building alternative building methods as part of creating affordable housing. Vandale discusses how to build affordable homes that are also ecological friending from Indigenous perspectives.
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The Canada Presbyterian (1871)
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The Canada Presbyterian, “Our Indian Work” talks about the ideas of the crown and their plan to either civilize then Christianize or Christianize then civilize. The goals are to train the spiritual, intellectual and physical powers for a basis of unity which may be adopted to ensure success that the natives where Christianized and civilized. The author of this text also goes over incidents that happen with a priest trying to convert a community that had been untouched by other religions. The author also goes on to exclaim how he witnessed a child’s baptism were the parents where afraid for the sick child and did the ceremony out of fear and desperation. The author then goes on to talk about day schools and the education influences and the preparation to become capable members of society. The text also takes about Chief Mistawasis in his old age and his conversion to Christianity. The end of the test address how theirs is not a lot of natives in their tradition clothing and what is done must happen quickly which address how the natives are dying.
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The Chicago Tribune, April 1, 1885
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In this article from the Chicago Tribune, the paper writes about the hanging in Battleford from Riel’s Rebellion and File Hills Indian Residential School.
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The Eskridge Home Weekly, April 9, 1885
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In this newsletter article, the paper mentions the Northwest Rebellion and the Riel Rebellion., These article can also be found at, Alma News, April 8, 1885, Topeka State Journal April 1, 1885 and Herington Tribune, April 9, 1885.
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The Genesis and Anatomy of Government Policy and Indian Reserve Agriculture on Four Agencies in Treaty Four, 1874-1897
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--Description taken from "The Genesis and Anatomy of Government Policy and Indian Reserve Agriculture on Four Agencies in Treaty Four, 1874-1897"--
This study of government policy and agriculture on four agencies in Treaty Four, 1874-97, challenges the widely-accepted belief that reserve farming failed despite concerted efforts of government to train, equip and assist because Indians were culturally resistant to becoming farmers. Although farming did not become the basis of a stable economy on reserves, an initial positive response to agriculture on the part of many reserve residents was evident in the years 1874-1897. The Indians of this period consistently displayed greater determination to see farming succeed than did government administrators. Government policy, combined with the same environmental and economic adversities that plagued all farmers, contributed to the decline or blunting of the initial positive response.
Victorian Canadians believed that the future of the Indians lay with farming although they perceived Indian society to be the antithesis of an agricultural way of life. The plains Indians, who throughout their history showed an ability to adapt and change, were well aware of the advantages farming offered and by the late nineteenth century were anxious to explore this option. The Canadian government however showed little determination to ensure that agriculture prospered on the reserves. In the years from the Qu'Appelle treaty of 1874 to the disappearance of the buffalo in 1879, little agricultural aid or instruction was offered, despite repeated requests from Indians. The home farm policy, hastily implemented in 1879, proved of little benefit to most Indian farmers as the instructors and their farms were remote from the reserves. With massive government cutbacks in funding and staff after 1883, efforts to establish argiculture on reserves became even more difficult.
The goal of government policy after 1885 was to destroy the "tribal" system and enhance individualism. Measures designed to control and monitor Indian movement and activity eventually had an effect on reserve agriculture. By 1890 however, Indian farmers had overcome some obstacles that had hampered agriculture in the past and were adopting dry-land farming techniques, purchasing necessary implements, and specializing in grain. The severity and peasant farming policies, enforced during the years 1890 to 1897, set tight limits on agricultural productivity and expansion. These policies were crucial factors in the checking of the initial positive response to agriculture. With the erosion of the Indian land base in the years after 1896, the opportunity for agriculture to form the basis of a stable economy on reserves became ever more remote.