This file contains several photocopies of journal articles and book chapters concerning the traditional land of the Ojibway peoples, relations with Haudenosaunee groups, Ontarian history, dispossession of Mississaugas of Credit First Nation, Michipicoten Island, and Ojibway ceremonies and customs .
This file contains an article titled "A Blood Indian's Story" by Mike Oka. This article was prepared by Mr. Mills, Mike Oka's son-in-law, in 1936. The article contains information on Mike Oka, a member of Kainai First Nation. [Originally titled: Oka, Mike (Blood)]
This file has a journal article titled "Omaha Survival: A Vanishing Indian Tribe that would not vanish" by Robin Ridington in the American Indian Quarterly - Journal of American Indian Studies (Vol. 11, No. 1, Winter 1987). [Originally titled: Indians - Omaha]
This file contains a booklet from Ontario Ministry of Education and Ministry of Colleges and Universities titled "Ontario History: an informal history of the land and its people" by Robert Choquette and writers Catherine Price and Margaret Woollard. The booklet includes information on Ontario's Native Peoples, French Empire, Loyalist Refuge, Little England, Industrial Ontario, The Struggle for Social Maturity, and Contemporary Ontario.
This file contains a typewritten version and a photocopied document by Rev. Father A.G. Morice on Dene Traditional Stories such as the Origin of Light and the Origin of Fire.
This file contains a photocopy of a book titled "Journal of American Folk-Lore" chapter titled "Loucheux Myths," pages 249-257, collected by geologist Charles Camsell and prepared for publication by C.M. Barbeau. Charles Camsell's informant Peter Ross, a Loucheux living at Fort MacPherson, spent many hours telling Loucheux Traditional Stories to Charles Camsell, who the next day, wrote down the stories from memory found in this chapter. The stories included are "The Origin of the World," "The Deluge," The Beaver's Tail," "The Culture-Hero," "Tetogolee," "The Crow's Trick," "The Trickster," "The Grizzly Bear and the Crow," "The Crow's Home," The Man in the Moon," Wolverine and the Man," Why the Bears have Short Tails," and "The Old Man, the Bear and the Ermine."
The files contains a series of photocopies of traditional stories from Indigenous groups in the Pacific Northwestern region, including "The Origin of Light and Fire," "The Original High-hat Story, or how the Chief's Tall Hat Saved His People from the Flood," "The First Beaver," "The Story of Black Cloud," "How People First Came to Cowichan," and "The Origin of the Cohoe Salmon, a Frazer River Legend of the Yale Tribes" among others. Also includes a booklet containing stories about the origin of deer and the moon. Many of these stories were photocopied from the Archives of British Columbia.
This file contains multiple documents including an article, pages 240- 226, titled "Red children of the Queen" details information on treaties to pass all the lands into the keeping of the Crown-the "Great Mother the Queen" as Victoria was referred to by her governors and commissioners. This file also includes an article, titled "Through an Indian eye," which describes how Canadian government spokesmen tried to persuade the Indigenous population to cede their territories to the Queen and settle down on a reservation. Another article titled "My arrows are broken" describes the destruction of Indigenous culture.
This file contains a typewritten biography and photocopy of original biography, from the Public Archives of Nova Scotia, of Peter Paul written in 1865 from his own statement. This file also includes a photocopied document from 1849 detailing numerous petitions, including a petition of Chiefs and Captains of the Mi'kmaq population of Nova Scotia, from the Public Archives of Nova Scotia. Additionally, a page from a book titled "Micmacs and Colonists" is included in this file describing Peter Paul looking back over his long life.
This file contains photocopied pages from "No Foreign Land" an account by Wilfred Pelletier including pages 36-54, and 72-110. This file also includes a short biography about Wilfred Pelletier, who is an author of Anishibaabe descent and born in Wikwemikong on Manitoulin Island in northern Lake Huron, in "Selected American Indian Authors". Additionally, this file includes another short biography on Wilfred Pelletier in the chapter "Senior High and Adult".
This file contains a letter from September 18, 1989 to Penny Petrone from Jeanne Perreault that includes a series of names and contact information. The letterhead is from The University of Calgary.
This file contains a photocopy of "An Early Sarnia Aboriginal Newspaper" titled "Petaubun: Peep of Day" Vol. 2 No.2 March, 1862 published by George L. Smith, Brights Grove Ont. Feb. 1976. This document also includes a biography by Rev. John Morrison on Thomas Hurlburt. Additionally, this document provides translations to the editor of Petaubun in English.
This file contains a photocopy of the original petition from the Indigenous Peoples from the Two Mountains on July 20, 1822. [Originally titled: Petition (Indian) from the Two Mountains, July 20, 1822]
Memorandum of Agreement between Luigi Petrone and The Bond Adams Company confirming the sale of property to Luigi Petrone.
Includes an invitation to the 1970 Lakehead University Convocation, a copy of Penny Petrone's transcript noting her completion of a Master of Arts degree in English, and a program for the convocation ceremony.
Includes two lists of payments made to Petrone by Colosimo, one handwritten and one typed, complete with interest calculations and a final balance owing. Also a second page of notes about transactions and the debt's history.
A contract signed by Penny Petrone with the Public Board of School Section #2 McIntyre confirming her employment.
A page from a November 1998 edition of The Globe and Mail featuring a negative article about the Group of Seven.
A black and white photo of Luisa Petrone (left) and a friend (right), undated.
Several drafts of a speech in Italian typed, handwritten, and photocopied.
Includes a thank you card from Father Richard Veltri to Luisa Petrone, a card indicating the ordainment of Father Richard Veltri and his first mass at St. Anthony's Church, and a napkin stamped with his name and a religious symbol.
A typed letter from Louis Abate to Alfred A. Petrone asking advice about his property in Italy.
Includes a program for the 25th anniversary celebration of St. Anthony's Parish Council of the Catholic Women's League of Canada. Also includes a ziplock bag containing two of Luisa Petrone's Retired Senior Citizen's Transit Cards, a black and white photograph of Penny Petrone as a young woman (undated), a Senior Citizen's Courtesy Card for the Bank of Montreal, several prayer cards in English and Italian, several business cards for Alfred A. Petrone, and membership cards to the following organizations: the Legion of Mary, the Catholic Women's League of Canada, and the Orphanage of St. Anthony.
Two black and white class photos from St. Joseph's School, undated. The first is unlabeled, the second is signed by members of the class, including Mary Petrone, one of Penny's sisters.
Includes original pages from a November 1941 edition of The Port Arthur News-Chronicle featuring an article on Penny Petrone's graduating class from Port Arthur Collegiate Institute. Her photo is featured as she won a scholarship. Also includes several photocopies of the article.