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Murray Krause
2003.11.1.20 · File · 1999-2000
Part of Island Cache Recovery Project Collection

File consists of an oral history given by Murray Krause, which was gathered as part of Dr. Mike Evan's Island Cache Recovery Project. Includes consent forms, transcripts, and the recorded oral history on the original media.

Namu group around flag pole
2004.2.1.6 · Item · [ca. 1910]
Part of Reverend R.W. Large fonds

Photograph depicts a crowd gathered near the shore of a body of water around a flag pole, with a band to the left. Annotation on verso of photograph states: "Myself accepting the flag pole etc., - Namu crowd in fore-ground - School children around the pole, + Band to the left."

Nedra Jane Paul collection
2001.15 · Collection · 1964-1971

Fonds consists of the personal records of Nedra (Ginty) Jane Paul [b. ca.1920-d. 1990]. Personal records include the 1938 Lord Byng High School Annual, 2 teaching certificates, and 1 photograph. Paul worked as a teacher in the Chilcotin and Bella Coola regions of BC and the primary items of the collection are 8 recordings generated by her with members of First Nations Communities at Alkali, Red Stone, Kleena Kleene and Bella Coola from 1964-1971. There are 8 original audio reel to reel recordings (and 2 tapes which are copies of the recordings later created by P.J. Thomas, who accompanied Paul on the interviews). Recordings include stories and songs.

Paul, Nedra Jane
2009.7.1.058 · Item · [1903?]
Part of Archdeacon W. H. Collison fonds

Photograph depicts fenced area in front of church building with turret. Other community buildings can be seen in background.

Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Metlakatla Church. Replacement for larger church lost in village fire 1903?" See also item 2009.7.1.55 for similar image depicting new church building at Metlakatla, B.C.

2009.7.1.109 · Item · [ca. 1900 - ca. 1930]
Part of Archdeacon W. H. Collison fonds

Chief Allen sits in chair on raised wooden platform, with bear skin over his knee, and two more bear skins laid on wood blocks in front of him. House stands behind picket fence in background. Pot and pan sit to right of chair in foreground.

Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Albert Allen Kincolith (Nisga Chief)".

2009.6.9.02 · File · 1995-1997
Part of The Honourable Iona Campagnolo fonds

File consists of correspondence, publications, press releases, newspaper clippings, guidelines, and speeches. Includes:

  • Copy of Nisga’a Nation 35th Annual Convention, Convention Book
  • Publication: “Nisga’a: People of the Mighty River”
  • Computer printout: “Nisga’a, British Columbia and Canada sign Agreement-in-Principle, February 15, 1996
  • Nisga’a Treaty Negotiations, Agreement-in-Principle in Brief
  • Chronology of events leading to an Agreement-in-Principle with the Nisga’a Tribal Council
  • Nisga’a, British Columbia and Canada release historic Agreement-in-Principle
  • Lock-up Guidelines, Nisga’a Agreement-in-Principle
  • Speaking notes for the Honourable Ronald A. Irwin, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development re: Nisga’a Agreement-in-Principle, February 15, 1996
  • Publication: Treaty No.8 Made June 21, 1899 and Adhesions, Reports, etc
  • Publication: Treaty No.11 (June 27, 1921) and Adhesion (July 17, 1922) with Reports, etc.
  • Publication: Indian Act, September, 1989
  • Handwritten note: “The view only changes for the land (?)”
  • Letter to Iona Campagnolo from Hon. Ronald A. Irwin re: thank you for support of Nisga’a Agreement-in-Principle, April 18, 1996
  • Letter to Iona Campagnolo from Prime Minister Jean Chrétien re: thank you for support of Nisga’a Agreement-in-Principle, April 15, 1996
  • Faxed letter to Ms. Marjorie Percival, Land Claims Secretary, Nisga’a Tribal Council, from Iona Campagnolo re: Agreement-in-Principle Signing Ceremony and 39th Annual Convention, March 19, 1996
  • Faxed letter to Chief Harry Nyce, Nisga’a Tribal Council, from Iona Campagnolo re: regrets for Agreement-in-Principle Signing Ceremony, March 18, 1996
  • Faxed letter to Iona Campagnolo from to Ms. Marjorie Percival, Land Claims Secretary, Nisga’a Tribal Council, re: Agreement-in-Principle Signing Ceremony and 39th Annual Convention, March 18, 1996
  • Letter to Iona Campagnolo from Paulette Francoeur, Head, Correspondence Unit, Office of the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, re: letter of acknowledgement, February 23, 1996
  • Faxed letter to Ms. Megan Olesky, Federal Treaty Negotiation Office, from Iona Campagnolo re: event attendance, February 14, 1996
  • Handwritten notes re: Nisga’a
  • Handwritten notes re: First Nations Summit and Nisga’a
  • Faxed letter to Iona Campagnolo from Doreen Mullings, Executive Director, Federal Treaty Negotiation Office and Joy Illington, Assistant Deputy Minister, Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs re: Nisga’a Agreement-in-Principle and News Conference Invitation, February 14, 1996
  • Fax to Iona Campagnolo re: “Talking points on the Nisga’a Agreement-in-Principle”, February 15, 1996
  • Letter to Iona Campagnolo from Honourable Ronald A. Irwin, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development re: Nisga’a treaty negotiations, October 20, 1995
  • Letter to Prime Minister Jean Chrétien from Iona Campagnolo re: appreciation of government in support of Nisga’a treaty negotiations, February 12, 1996
  • Letter to John Watson, Regional Director General, Indian Affairs and Northern Development from Iona Campagnolo re: thank you for briefing on Nisga’a Agreement, October 1, 1997
  • Letter to Prime Minister Jean Chrétien from Iona Campagnolo re: commendation of John Watson, and the Nisga’a people towards determining an Agreement, October 1, 1997
  • Letter to Hon. Jane Stewart, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development from Iona Campagnolo re: commendation of her leadership, October 1, 1997
  • Newspaper clippings:
    • “Guujaaw: A man of his people” The Vancouver Sun, March 16, 2002
    • “Found Haida tattoo kit comes to light” The Vancouver Sun, March 16, 2002
    • “A culture rises again” The Vancouver Sun, March 16, 2002
    • “Balance of power” The Vancouver Sun, March 16, 2002
    • “Voices of Haida Gwaii” The Vancouver Sun, March 16, 2002
    • “Selling a philosophy of peace in Indian Country” The Globe and Mail, March 2, 1996
    • Letters to the Editor, The Globe and Mail, March 2, 1996
    • “Caution surrounds Nisga’a signing” The Globe and Mail, March 22, 1996
    • “At last! A settlement in native land claims” Times Colonist, February 25, 1996
    • “The Nisga’a agreement: a great deal or a great steal?” The Globe and Mail, March 5, 1996
    • “Natives denied land-claims justice” Times Colonist, September 15, 1990
    • “B.C. land-claim deal sails into storm” The Globe and Mail, February 16, 1996
    • “Beyond the thunder of dissent lies the fire of revolution” The Vancouver Sun (undated)
    • “The fallout will be far-reaching from the B.C. ruling on aboriginal rights” The Globe and Mail (undated)
    • “Judge the Nisga’a deal on its practical merits” The Globe and Mail, February 14, 1996
    • “The B.C. government must deal in good faith with the Nisga’a” The Globe and Mail, 1995
    • “Nisga’a negotiate an exemplary land-claim agreement in principle” The Globe and Mail, (undated)
    • “Native goals more in harmony with populist mood” (unidentified)
    • “No quick fixes expected from Nisga’a settlement” The Globe and Mail, March 25, 1996
    • “Nisga’a deal an honourable settlement” The Globe and Mail, February 24, 1996
    • “Lessons from the Nisga’a” Simon Fraser News, March 7, 1996
2009.7.1.045 · Item · [1903?]
Part of Archdeacon W. H. Collison fonds

Three men stand in centre, each wearing a chief's dress and head-dress. Family members stand and sit on either side. Carved boxes and masks are positioned in foreground. The group poses in front of drapery hung against tall wooden wall.

Community members have stated that the people in this photo are from the Gitwilluyaxw clan from the wolf tribal house of Ksdiyaawak. The photo was taken at Gitlax̱t’aamiks along the Nass River.

Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Tsimpshian Chiefs & family. Goods [for or fr.] Potlatch".

Nisga'a Treaty
2012.13.2.05.05 · File · 1997-1999
Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

File consists of notes, clippings, and reproductions relating to the Nisga'a Treaty. The Nisga'a Final Agreement, also known as the Nisga'a Treaty, is a treaty that was settled between the Nisg?a'a, the government of British Columbia, and the Government of Canada that was signed on 27 May 1998 and came into effect on May 11, 2000. Includes "The Flaws in This Nisga'a Template Will Divide Canadians by Race Forever and There's Fifty More to Come. Shouldn't All Canadians be Equal?" pamphlet by the B.C. Fisheries Survival Coalition (1999); "Your Guide to the Nisga'a Treaty" pamphlet from the Province of British Columbia (1999); and "Gathering Strength: Canada's Aboriginal Action Plan" pamphlet published by the Ministry of Indian Affairs and Northern Development of Canada (1997).

2009.7.1.185 · Item · [ca. 1880]
Part of Archdeacon W. H. Collison fonds

Eight unidentified medicine men in full regalia stand in a row within a long house. Handwritten annotation in pen on verso reads: “Yaulalet Dum guna al git dkdin (?) Party of medicine men Nishka Indians ready for medicine dance. W.H. Collison”. Stamped annotation on verso reads: “Haldane & Bro. Alaskan Photographers, 7 West Street, Metlakahtla – Alaska.”

2002.14.1.09 · Subseries · 1984-2008, predominant 2001-2006
Part of Marianne (Marika) Ainley fonds

Subseries reflects Dr. Ainley's extensive research on indigenous science and traditional knowledge and how it transferred to European settlers in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Much of this research culminated in Dr. Ainley's unfinished monograph project "Re-explorations: new perspectives on gender, environment and the transfer of knowledge in 19th and 20th century Canada and Australia." Material is, predominately, arranged by individual, with files largely consisting of bibliographies, articles and notes about and by the individual on topics related to the environment and interaction with indigenous peoples. Subseries also contains research notes, interviews, and correspondence. As much of Ainley's research focused on women, see subseries on women in science and engineering research (2002.14.1.5) for related materials.

2009.7.4.13 · File · Oct. 1911, April 1931
Part of Archdeacon W. H. Collison fonds

North British Columbia News with which is incorporated Aiyansh Notes (2 editions):

  • North British Columbia News with which is incorporated Aiyansh Notes: A Journal of Missionary Endeavor in the Diocese of Caledonia, British Columbia. Vol. 1, No. 8. October 1911.
  • North British Columbia News with which is incorporated Aiyansh Notes: A Journal of Missionary Endeavor in the Diocese of Caledonia, British Columbia. No. 84 April 1931.
2019.9.2.05 · File · 1997
Part of Dr. Robin Fisher fonds

Dr. Robin Fisher was a member of the Northern Interior Regional Advisory Committee for treaty process in British Columbia. File consists of meeting minutes, correspondence, documents for discussion, agendas, and notes. Includes: Provincial response to Ts'kw'aylaxw First Nations Position Paper Yekooche First Nation Governance: A Discussion Paper Cheslatta Treaty Discussions Community Profile: Carrier Nation Traditional Territory Carrier songs adapted to Lheidli T'enneh dialect

2019.9.2.03 · File · 1995-1996
Part of Dr. Robin Fisher fonds

Dr. Robin Fisher was a member of the Northern Interior Regional Advisory Committee for treaty process in British Columbia. File consists of meeting minutes, correspondence, documents for discussion, agendas, and notes. Includes results from public forums on treaty negotiations and a map of traditional territories of British Columbia First Nations.

Notes and bibliography
2002.14.1.09.011 · File · [2001?]
Part of Marianne (Marika) Ainley fonds

File consists of notes on manuscripts written by Ainley's research assistants and a bibliography of publications about contact between First Nations and Western peoples.

Notes and drafts
2009.7.2.02 · File
Part of Archdeacon W. H. Collison fonds

This file contains handwritten and typed notes and drafts of First Nations legends, addresses and manuscripts. It is believed this material was authored by W.H. and W.E. Collison although none is signed or dated.

2002.14.1.09.028 · File · 2001
Part of Marianne (Marika) Ainley fonds

File contains material about Julie Cruikshank. It consists of notes on publications by Cruikshank; printouts of library catalogue search results; correspondence, predominately between the Yukon Archives and Anna-Stina Kjellstrom about requests tapes of interviews with Aboriginal people by Cruikshank; catalogue records for publications by Cruikshank; descriptions of publications by Cruikshank; and an article excerpt.

2002.14.1.09.026 · File · 2001
Part of Marianne (Marika) Ainley fonds

File contains material about Marie Battiste. It consists of a printout of an online curriculum vitae, catalogues records for publications by Battisite, notes on publications by Battiste and a description for a conference presentation by Battiste

2002.14.1.09.018 · File · 2002
Part of Marianne (Marika) Ainley fonds

File contains material about Mary Schaffer. It consists of notes from publications about Schaffer by Ainley's research assistant, Julie Thacker; a photograph of Schaffer; a description of an archival acquisition of Mary Schaffer photographs; and a short biography of Schaffer.

Okanagan history
2002.14.1.09.070 · File · 2001
Part of Marianne (Marika) Ainley fonds

File consists of research materials regarding Okanagan History including book lists, emails, research notes, printouts of online research materials, and a Kamloops visitor guide.

Old Ekks
2001.15.2.06 · Item · 19 January 1964
Part of Nedra Jane Paul collection

Consists of an audio recording made by Paul of Joseph Jeff, Old Ekks' son-in-law, asking questions of Old Ekks at Redstone.