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References

Aboriginal Rights Resource Tool Kit. Canadian Labour Congress Anti-Racism and Human Rights Department.

Canadian Labour Congress: http://fner.wordpress.com/2012/03/08/aboriginal-rights-resource-tool-kit-pdf

First Nations in Canada: http://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1307460755710/1307460872523

First Nations Teachings & Practices. 2008. Manitoba First Nations Education Resource Centre Inc.

Native American Technology & Art: http://www.nativetech.org/wampum/wamppics.htm

Onondaga Nation: People of the Hills: http://www.onondaganation.org/about

Tenning, A. Walking on the Lands of our Ancestors, 2008, Canada’s National History Society

The Huron Gift to Kahnawà:ke: http://www.wampumchronicles.com/kahnawakehuronwampumbelt.html

The Learning Circle: Classroom Activities on First Nations in Canada – Ages 4 to 7: http://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1316530132377/1316530184659

http://www.dickshovel.com/500.html

Understanding and Appreciation of First Nations History and Culture. First Nations Education Initiative Inc: http://www.fneii.ca

Image Sources

  • pg.3
    • The Quamichan [Hul’qumi’num] Village. Vancouver Island, East Coast. [Possibly the village of Kw’amutsun on the Cowichan River.] ​Frederick Dally Fonds [ca. 1866-1870] ​Royal British Columbia Museum Archives
  • pg.3
    • Interior of the Hut of a Mandan Chief. ​Engraving of a watercolour by Karl Bodmer ​[ca. 1832] WHI-6341 ​Wisconsin Historical Society/Archives of Ontario
  • pg.4
    • From “The North American Indian” by Edward S. Curtis; Volume 9; Plate No. 302; Skokomish fishing camp; two natives on beach, canoe in foreground. Photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis [ca. 1912]​Royal British Columbia Museum Archives
    • A First Nations family in the Yukon Territory. Photographer unknown [ca.?] ​Royal British Columbia Museum Archives
    • Cowichan First Nation man and woman ​potato sellers.​
    • Frederick Dally Fonds [ca. 1866-1870] ​Royal British Columbia Museum Archives/li>
    • Dog Child, a North West Mounted Police scout, and his wife, The Only Handsome Woman, members of the Blackfoot Nation, Gleichen, Alberta [ca. 1890]. Ed Tompkins, Jeffrey Thomas portraits [ca. 1890]. Canadian National Archives
    • Copy of a portrait of Pauline Johnson, ​Six Nations poetess.​
    • Photographer unknown [ca. 1885]​Archives of Ontario
    • Maun-gua-daus (or Maun-gwa-daus) alias George Henry (born ca. 1807), original chief of the Ojibwa Nation of Credit (Upper Canada) and interpreter employed by Indian Affairs.
    • Ed Tompkins, Jeffrey Thomas portraits [ca. 1846].​Canadian National Archives
  • pg.5
    • Encampment of Scachett [sic] [Skagit?] Indians at New Westminster, Fraser River, British Columbia​Frederick Dally Fonds [ca. 1866-1870]​Royal British Columbia Museum Archives
  • pg.6
    • Tyendinaga Pow Wow, Tyendinaga Ontario Photographer Terri-Lynn Brennan ​[ca.2017]
  • pg.7
    • First Nations women and girls at Ma-ate in Quatsino Sound​Photograph by Oregon Hastings, [ca. 1879]​Royal British Columbia Museum Archives
    • Cleaning salmon at Stuart Lake.​Photographer Frank Cyril Swannell [ca. 1909]​Royal British Columbia Museum Archives
    • White Eye Jack, Lena and Klootch. ​Photographer Frank Cyril Swannell [ca. 1928]​Royal British Columbia Museum Archives
    • Alaskan First Nations children​Photographer unknown [ca. ?]​Royal British Columbia Museum Archives
    • First Nations child and partially completed canoe; Indian Mission, Vancouver. ​Photographer unknown [ca. ?]​
    • Royal British Columbia Museum Archives First Nations Man and Child in traditional clothing. Photographer Frank E. Schoonover [ca.1905?]​Alberta Provincial Archives
    • Children playing at Big Trout Lake, ​Northern Ontario.​John Macfie [ca. January 1956]​Archives of Ontario
  • pg.8
    • Nine of the greatest Indian Chiefs of British Columbia dressed in their fur caps, buckskin coats & moccasins. ​Frederick Dally Fonds [ca. 1866-1870]​Royal British Columbia Museum Archives
    • Talking [Eagle] Feather, Wolfe Island, Ontario. Photographer Mark D. Read [ca. 2018]
  • pg.10
    • Sun Dance Blackfeet Indians, Gleichen, N.W.T. Photographer Richard Henry Trueman [ca. 1893]. Canadian National Archives
  • pg.11
    • Anishinaabe Sweatlodge Frame, Correctional Services Canada Headquarters, Kingston, Ontario. Photographer Mark D Read [ca. 2018]
  • pg.12
    • Young man’s coming of age, Anishinaabe Storytelling around a campfire at Maclachlan Museum, Kingston, Ontario.​Photographer Terri-Lynn Brennan [ca. 2016]
  • pg.13
    • The Hiawatha Wampum Belt, ​or Dish with One Spoon.​Wabano House, Ottawa. [ca. 2017]
  • pg.14
    • British Columbia Joyceville CSC Brotherhood totem pole, Correctional Services Canada Headquarters, Kingston, Ontario.​Photographer Mark D Read [ca. 2018]
    • Totem poles at Alert Bay.​Photographer Frank Cyril Swannell [ca. 1905]​Royal British Columbia Museum Archives
  • pg.15
    • Indian Mask, Folkfest Victoria British Columbia. Special Services Branch [ca. 1977]​Royal British Columbia Museum Archives
  • pg.16
    • Modern Tee Pee Shelter, Correctional Services Canada Headquarters, Kingston, Ontario. Photographer Mark D Read [ca. 2018]
  • pg.17
    • Indian canoes (chinook shape) from the west coast of Vancouver Island, assembled by invitation in Victoria Harbour on the occasion of a great Indian Potlash [sic] – or giving away feast by the Songish tribe of Indians. ​Frederick Dally Fonds [ca. 1866-1870]​Royal British Columbia Museum Archives
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