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Indian Brotherhood - land claims 1977

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Territorial Flag 1968

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The Drum [newspaper] Vol. 11 No. 34, September 1, 1967

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Chamber of Commerce 1973

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Yellowknife Joint Planning Committee 1972-73

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One folder containing an English translation of an interview done with the artist Helen Kalvak from Ulukhaktok. Includes stories related to drawings 184 through 212.

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One folder containing an English translation of an interview done with the artist Helen Kalvak from Ulukhaktok. Includes stories related to drawings 159 through 184.

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One folder containing an English translation of an interview done with the artist Helen Kalvak from Ulukhaktok. Includes stories related to drawings 119 through 143.

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One folder containing an English translation of an interview done with the artist Helen Kalvak from Ulukhaktok. Includes stories related to drawings 99 through 118.

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One folder containing an English translation of an interview done with the artist Helen Kalvak from Ulukhaktok. Includes stories related to small colour drawings 85 through 117.

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One folder containing an English translation of an interview done with the artist Helen Kalvak from Ulukhaktok. Includes stories related to small colour drawings 42 through 84.

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One folder containing an English translation of an interview done with the artist Helen Kalvak from Ulukhaktok. Includes stories related to drawings 331 through 342.

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One folder containing an English translation of an interview done with the artist Helen Kalvak from Ulukhaktok. Includes stories related to drawings 19 through 52.

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One folder containing an English translation of an interview done with the artist Helen Kalvak from Ulukhaktok. Includes stories related to drawings 246 through 278.

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One folder containing an English translation of an interview done with the artist Helen Kalvak from Ulukhaktok. Includes stories related to drawings 309 through 330.

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The file consists of transcripts of oral history interviews with William Firth and Sarah Simon in Fort McPherson on April 20, 1977. The interviewers are Ray Price and Sue Look.

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Interview notes from 1992 Index: Father's name, Charlie Stewart. Charlie was born April 2, 1874 and died November 9, 1959. Mother's name, Martha Kay. Martha came from Old Crow. She died when Sarah was 1 1/2 years old. Her father remarried Margaret Fonaclue (Bonnetplume] and they had 5 children. Sarah's paternal grandparents were Alexander (Sandy) Stewart and Catherine Stewart. Alexander was born in 1834 in in the old country. Catherine was a Loucheux [Gwich'in] Indian. They were married in 1859. They had nine children: John was born August 15, 1860, Margaret (married John Firth) was born September 18, 1862, Malcolm was born November 29, 1864, Annie was born June 1, 1867, Kenneth was born July 2, 1871, and John was born Nov. 28, 1881. Sarah married James Stewart on July 12, 1920 in St. Matthews church at Fort McPherson. Their daughter Susan (Susie) was born April 14, 1921. She died in 1935. In 1924, they adopted a 4 month old baby girl (Doris). In 1929, they adopted another girl, an Inuit girl (Mona) who was about 6 years old. Her parents had died during the flu epidemic. In 1930, they adopted a baby boy, and named him John Henry Simon. He was the son of James' sister, Nellie Mitchell, who already had 6 (or 9?) children. [I'm not sure if the following children that she mentions were adopted or not - In 1939, May 28th, we got a baby girl God is really close to us we thank him for his love to us. That's my baby Suzi [Sue], to have a baby, in 1941 and 1943 we got a baby boy born to us August 15th, What a joy. In 1948, our dear little son died with the Flu April 18th, this time no clergy man, again James had to bury his own son. A lot of children died and I had play organ for my baby. Sarah and James adopted 8 children in total. Sarah's husband, James Simon, was ordained into the priesthood on October 18, 1959.

The file consists of what appears to be the narrative version of an oral history interview with Pierre Saulteaux. Because the text ends in the middle of the page, some information for George Boots is also included. Keith Crowe is identified as the source of the material.

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Interview notes from 1992 Index: Pierre' s mother died· when he was a young baby and his father when he was a young boy, but he was told he was born up the Liard. His parents were from Fort Simpson. His wife, Cecelia is from Fort Simpson as are her parents.
Pierre and Cecelia's marriage was NOT arranged. "When they were first married, they went and lived with her parents. Later they moved back to Burned (Burnt?) Island when the man they were staying with died. That's where they live now. There were no feasts for young boys making their first kill." (p.2) ****Dene names listed in text: Chips - gotset tie, Dogribs - Clincho, Beavers - sa oh tin, Loucheux - de ghee, Fort Good Hope - ka cha den kwen, Fort McPherson - de ghee kwen (i.e. place of the Loucheux), Aklavik - a na kee kwen - Eskimos [some of the consonants are raised in the original text but I can't reproduce it here - "s" in gotset tie, "n" in clincho and the first "n" in ka cha den kwen. Also the "n" in sa oh tin has a tilde]

The file consists of the transcript of an oral history interview with Father Menez at Fort Resolution on January 20, 1977. The interviewer was Ray Price.

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Interview notes from 1992 Index: Short note of how the Courieur de Bois and the Metis came north. " ... when the English took over after General Wolfe's exercise in Quebec there, the fur traders, the French fur traders were sort of moved out but they left behind the little guys, the guys that were running around in the woods getting the fur. And when the English moved, well, who did they use but those who were already in the fur trade." p.2-3. Father Menez mentions that a vaccine was used by Doctor Diess [?] in 18371 [For smallpox??] Re: use of alcohol in fur trade: In 1800 there were 10,000 gallons of booze but by 1803, "·· .really the war between the Hudson’s Bay and the Northwest was at the peak, it went up to 20,000 [gallons]." p.5 Sir John Franklin was talking to Francois Beaulieu about travelling to the Arctic Ocean in 1820, and Francois Beaulieu drew him a map of the Arctic coast from Coppermine to Bathurst. The Burnside River has a Chipewyan name which means the river of the enemy. "Contwoyto Lake is a Chipewyan name meaning, the English used to call it Rum Lake because Samuel Hearne opened a keg of rum there. But the first part of the suffix, I mean the prefix means alcohol, and the suffix is lake." p.8 **Petitot writings and Back's journal mentioned in relation to the Mandevilles and Beaulieu and his 'gang' and where they met them i.e. Salt River, Fort Reliance, Fort Providence, Arctic Red River p.8-9. *****Books mentioned in text: "Le Metis Canadien" by Marcel Giraud. "Dix-huit-ans Chez les Sauvages" by Bishop Thoreau [?]. "Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition to the Mouth of the Great Fish River, and Along the Shores of the Arctic Ocean, in the
Years 1833, 1834, and 1835" by Sir George Back. "Soixante quinze ans Le Postulate" by Father Broullard(?). "History of Fort Resolution" by David Smith; "Fur Trade Posts of the Northwest Territories, 1870- 1970" by Peter Usher." "Explorations in the Far North" by Frank Russell. "The Nearing North" by Freeman Lewis. Includes stories about Francois Beaulieu (Old King Beaulieu). The following books were available through the Manitoba Metis Federation Press: "Famous Manitoba Metis," "Six Metis Communities," "A Social History of the Manitoba Metis," "Stories of the Metis," Questions and Answers Concerning the Metis," "The Metis: Canada's Forgotten People." Letter from A.G. MacKay on letterhead of MacKay, Hanley & Boyd [lawyers] to Frank Pedley the Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs, Ottawa, dated March 28, 1914 that informs the department that "the Indians around Fort Smith, Smith Landing, Chipewyan and Fond du Lac, are being told that the government is about to put them onto Reserves and deprive them absolutely of their right to hunt and in other respects are agitating them. He says that the half-breeds, particularly of the Boldeau [Ray comments that it should be Beaulieu] family ... are busy stirring up trouble with the Indians. And he thinks the feeling is such now that it is not safe for a white man to be engaged in prospectors work etc. in that district ... " p.13-14 ****Various R.C.M.P. reports (1897, 1909, 1912, 1915) are discussed.

The file consists of the transcript of an oral history interview with Victor Mandeville at Fort Resolution. The interviewer was Mod Mandeville.

Interview notes from 1992 Index: Victor was born on July 1, 1912 in Fort Resolution. His mother's name was Helen. She died when he was four years old. His father's name was Moise. He died in 1929, the year of the flu. There were 11 children in the family, 9 of whom died, leaving only himself and his sister. His grandfather "came from somewhere south." He did carpentry work. His wife's name was Albina Bouvier.

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