This file has newspaper clippings: "How City Life Killed Rita Joe", "First ballet written by native has message of pride and hope" and "The Spirit Soars: A native ballet keeps Indian legends alive". [Originally titled: Indian Dance]
This file contains film reviews, such as "Highway of dreams: A new movie follows a native Indian's quest" (MacLean's, 1989), a news article titled "Cold Journey: A Look on Modern-Day Indian Lifestyles" (The Native People, 1977), and "Banal 'epic' a costly disappointment" by John Cuff (The Globe and Mail). [Originally titled: Indian Film]
This file has a newspaper article from Wawatay News, December 1979, titled "Reflections on Indian leadership - changing roles", written by Jim Morris. [Originally titled: Indian leadership]
This file contains a photocopied document with an article titled "Many Voices; An Anthology of Contemporary Canadian Indian Poetry, by David Day and Marilyn Bowering. The review describes how "Many Voices" the poems speak for themselves, clearly and cleanly outline the spectrum of the Canadian Indigenous Population. This file also contains a photocopy of "Books in Canada," pages 24 and 25, dated December 1977. This file contains a photocopy of an original letter and a typewritten version from A.M. Van Cleve to Mr. Samuel ? Detroit, discussing copies of Indigenous speeches. A newspaper page from Indian News that includes a Poetry page is found in this file. Additionally, this file contains a photocopy of chapter XXXII titled "Non-English Writings II, pages 610-635. [Originally titled: Native Literature]
This file has a newspaper article titled "Indians played part in new world coinage", written by Edward Banning and "Treaty medals have two sides" by Howard Bernard. [Originally titled: Indian medals]
This file contains multiple documents on Indigenous music and poetry, including articles from magazines, newspapers, and scholarly journals. Also contains one and a half pages of Ojibwe songs, including Trader's Song, Vision Song, Cradle Song, Lament of the Toad Doctor, and I'm Fetching Songs. Also contains a booklet of songs including Address of a war-party to their women on leaving the village, Love Song, Medicine Song, Song before Banquet, Chant To The Fire*fly, and the Whaling song. This file contains a series of handwritten notes written by Penny Petrone. This file also contains half a page on the "picturesque quality of Indigenous speech" alongside a photocopy of the introduction chapter of The Indians' Book by Natalie Curtis describing Indigenous songs. [Originally titled: Native Music]
This file has an address of the Aamjiwnaang First Nations People to His Excellency the Lt. Gov. on the subject of the destruction of Gen. Brock's monument from December 15th, 1840 among other documents.
This file contains two articles concerning the writings of explorers in North America and the Arctic: "The Inhabitants of the Hinterland" by Samuel Hearne and "A journey to the Northern Ocean". The first article talks about Samuel Hearne who travelled from Fort Prince of Wales to the Arctic. [Originally titled: Indians in exploration]
This file has traditional poetry, titled "Shaking the Pumpkin - of the Indian North Americas" by Jerome Rothenberg. [Originally titled: Indian Poetry]
This file contains several worksheets concerning religion, spirituality, communications, contact with Europeans, Indigenous Peoples, and the fur trade. Each worksheet is formatted with questions in response to a thematic summary. This file also includes a speech by Jack D. Forbes on "Manifestation of Workgroup Indigenous Peoples (1983), as well as photocopied excerpts from several journal articles and books concerning historical interpretations of Indigenous religious and spiritual practices and the influence of Christianity, specifically as it relates to some Ojibwe and Haudenosaunee Peoples. [Originally titled: Indian Religion]
This file has miscellaneous documents: Fact sheet on economic and social conditions for Canadian Indians, "The Indian Dilemma" by J. S. Erskine, "Native guidance asked by MacGuigan", "The Bills of Rights and Indian Status by D. E. Sanders.
This file contains a series of newspaper and magazine clippings concerning the foundation of and fight for the entrenchment of Indigenous Rights in Canada as published in The Beaver, The Globe and Mail, and Maclean's, among others. This file also contains photocopies excerpts from The Criminal Law Quarterly and a booklet including a series of handwritten notes by Penny Petrone on Indigenous Rights in Canada. [Originally titled: Native Rights]
This file has speeches by different individuals, such as Alexander Henry (Travels and Adventures In Canada and the Indian Territories pg. 49), O'Soup, Christian Chief to the Superior-General of the Oblate Order from Paris in 1895, and Ka-Kay-she-way (Loud Voice). [Originally titled: Indian speeches]
This file contains an article titled "Native Studies: An Emerging Discipline" by Bill Novak from "Ontario Indian" 4(A): 8-10, 1981. The article discusses the beginning of unparalleled interest in the socio-economic condition of the Indigenous Peoples in Canada in the late 1960s. This file also contains a booklet from the Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities titled "Native Studies in Colleges and Universities." The July, 1976 booklet contains a guide to courses in native studies offered in Ontario beyond the secondary school level. Additionally this file contains two newspaper article clippings titled "Indians ask university to keep open mind" by Laura Boast and "Canada's first credit course in Native Studies released by Ministry." [Originally titled: Native Studies - drawings]
This file has a newspaper article from "The Native People" (December 3, 1976), titled "Reader concerned over Terminology of Word Indian" written by Peter Bishop (A "concerned Metis, Indian, native person - take your choice"). [Originally titled: Indian terminology]
This file has multiple magazine and newspaper articles, original and photocopied, pertaining to Indigenous Title. Among the articles are: "A major land claim review must come to terms with the issue of self-rule for native people," "Brief on Indian of Quebec territorial rights," and "Indians may not get Total control of Land". [Originally titled: Indian Land Claims]
This file has 3 articles written by Cornelius J. Jaenan: "Persistence into the 18th Century of Traditional French Concepts and constructs for Comprehending AmerIndians," "Amerindians views of French Culture in the Seventeenth Century." and "France and the New World: Some Neglected Writers and Views."
This file has a document titled "Reminiscence No. 3" which talks about Sir John J. Pierce, his Excellency Lewis Cass, and John Johnston Esq.
This file has a photocopy of a handwritten letter from William Jones to Colonel Samuel B. Jarvis? on February 18th, 1843 from Port Sarnia.
This file has an copy of a book chapter from Vanguards of Canada, titled "Chapter X, Chief Joseph and the Oka Indians".
This file contains a photocopy of a 1840 speech and a typewritten transcription of it. The speakers are Chiefs of the Mohawk Nation of Grand River. They are asking why treaties have not be honoured by the other side regarding distributions of gifts. Another transcribed speech is about lands and encroachment by white people. Also contains photocopies of another speech about farming close to Indigenous Land. [Originally titled: Mohawk speeches 1840]
This file has articles on Reverend Peter Reginald Kelly (1885-1966) who was Haida and was the first Indigenous minister in the Methodist Church. He strongly believed that Indigenous people had to seek success in white society and devoted his life to it.
This file has many works of George Kenny, such as: "Summer Dawn on Loon Lake", "Sunset on Portage", and "How He Served". It also includes many newspaper articles written by George Kenny with titles such as the following: "Natives face poor conditions", "Cultural symbols must be retained", and "Anishnawbe world view is as valid as anyone's".
This file has an open letter written by Hector King to Ron Irwin, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development.
This file has a letter from the Deputy Supt General from the 1800s. It is a photocopy from Indian Affairs (RG 10, Volume 486, pp. 3784-4255).