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The slides depict people, family life, treaty days, hunting and fishing activities, winter and summer scenes and northern lights in communities such as Detah, Yellowknife, Fort Good Hope, Deline, Fort Simpson, Fort Resolution, Fort Norman [Tulita] and Rae-Edzo. Subjects also include events such as the Dene National Assembly and the papal visits to Fort Simpson.

Records are comprised of transcripts of recorded stories told by Paul Vaudrak [Voudrach] to Rene Fumoleau in 1955. The stories, told in French, concern the Gwich'in equivalent of the Yamoria legend.

Records include photographs copied from original glass slides. They appear to date from the 1920s and were likely taken by the Oblates of Mary Immaculate at Fort Good Hope. Images include views of the community, Catholic clergy, the Our Lady of Good Hope Church, North Slavey children and families, and an unidentified ship's captain.

The textual records are comprised of copies of research, legal documents and reports related to Treaty 8, and is primarily concerned with taxation. The sound recording, entitled "The Winds of Change", was produced by CBC Calgary, most likely in the early-1970s. The documentary discussed the changes happening in the North. Northwest Territories' communities described in the piece included Tuktoyaktuk, Inuvik, Yellowknife, Fort Smith, and Hay River.

Records include photographs documenting the construction of a church in Deline in the summer and fall of 1962. The images include views of Deline from Great Bear Lake, excavation for the foundation, framing the church and the completed building.

74 of the negatives were taken from August 1946 to May 1948 and are cellulose nitrate. One negative was taken in June 1994 as a comparison to an earlier image of the same location. The photographs feature the locations of Port Radium, Yellowknife, and Norman Wells. Subjects include an Eldorado Mining and Refining, Ltd. Camp, Royal Canadian Corps of Signals stations, airplanes, Governor General Alexander's visit to the Northwest Territories in 1947, the Imperial Oil Limited camp and a Royal Canadian Mounted Police dog patrol. Most of the images were photographed by Robert van't Hoff, however, two images are credited to Henry Busse.

Entitled "Highway of the Atom," this film was created for the Northern Transportation Company Ltd. (NTCL). It was edited and recorded by Crawley Films, with camera work by R.B. Ranson. "Highway of the Atom" illustrates the Radium Line of the Northern Transportation Company Ltd. Transportation system by tracing the shipment of materials from Waterways, Alberta to Port Radium, on the "Radium Franklin" and the "Radium Gilbert."

Records include a photograph of "largest tow ever" on Mackenzie River by the Northern Transporation Company on July 27, 1982.

The textual records consist of a 1921 article written by Fred Jackson for the Hudson's Bay Company publication "The Beaver" about the first planes in Fort Simpson; notes by John Berens on the 1924 wreck of the "S.S. Northland Trader" and barge "Bell Rock"; as well as Fred Jackson's 1921 radiotelegraphy (telegraph) licence. The photographs were originally housed in two albums titled "From the Land of the Midnight Sun" and feature various Dene and Inuit communities in northern Alberta and the Northwest Territories. Also featured are steam ships, the Hay River Mission and school children.

The text is the transcript of the Michif Language Conference on February 19 and 20, 1994, in Yellowknife, hosted by the Metis Heritage Association. The sound recording comprises the Michif spoken excerpts of the proceedings, which have been indicated on the transcript.

The sound recordings document an oral history workshop exercise from a workshop held by the NWT Archives in March 1988. The recordings are of participants interviewing each other on their personal histories.

This accession consists of one school attendance register from St. David's Mission in Fort Simpson for the year 1919.

The sound recordings contain samples of the Native Communications Society's aboriginal language programming.

Records include photographs produced for the Native Press newspaper. The photographs are in the form of primarily black and white negatives with associated orginal contact sheets. So far only the images from 1971-79 have been fully processed. The accession also includes unprocessed stock image prints, textual records, audio-visual material, original artwork, and book galleys.

The original slides, belonging to Joan Ryan, date from 1957-1960 and mainly feature Lac La Martre, although Fort Rae, Fort Smith, and Sugluk are also represented. Images include people of Lac La Martre and activities such as butchering moose, skin and hide preparation and drying meat and fish.

Footage shows Wop May on Reid (Read) Island.

Many of these images are unidentified, however there are images of people from the Tree River area [1925-29] and boats the "Margaret A", "Blue Fox", "Bay Maud", "Bay Chimo" and the "Aklavik."

Subjects include Ray Ross' wife Lillian, son Raymer, born 1937, daughter Patricia, born 1940, and the communities of Holman and Read Island, Nunavut. Includes photographs of the boats, dosgsleds, Norseman floatplanes, Professor Lincoln Washburn and his wife Tahoe Washburn. The majority of the photographs depict Ross' son Raymer's playtime and his life in the Arctic with his parents and their sled dogs.