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Apr1

ayiman: Adolphus Ghostkeeper, Councillor and Elder from the Paddle Prairie Settlement (North Peace, represent!) at a 1979 conference in Hinton convened by the Federation of Metis Settlement Associations (FMSA) One of the issues on the table was the history of the Settlements in Alberta, particularly as regards the appropriation of Metis lands by the Province of Alberta prior to the re-establishment of some Settlements in the 1930s.

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Adolphus Ghostkeeper, Councillor and Elder from the Paddle Prairie Settlement (North Peace, represent!) at a 1979 conference in Hinton convened by the Federation of Metis Settlement Associations (FMSA)

One of the issues on the table was the history of the Settlements in Alberta, particularly as regards the appropriation of Metis lands by the Province of Alberta prior to the re-establishment of some Settlements in the 1930s.

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Fort Chipewyan, Hudson Bay Post. First left is John James Loutet, Hudson Bay Company Post Manager. no date. “Fort Chipewyan is one of the oldest European settlements in the Province of Alberta. It was established as a trading post by Peter Pond of the North West Company in 1788.The Fort was named after the Chipewyan First Nation living in the area. One of the establishers of the Fort, Roderick McKenzie, always had a taste for literature, as was seen years later when he opened correspondence with traders all over the north and west, asking for descriptions of scenery, adventure, folklore and history. He also had in view the founding of a library at the fort, which would not be only for the immediate residents of Fort Chipewyan, but for traders and clerks of the whole region tributary to Lake Athabaska, so that it would be what he called, in an imaginative and somewhat jocular vein, “the little Athens of the Arctic regions.” This library became, perhaps, the most famous in the whole extent of Rupert’s Land.” [via]

Fort Chipewyan, Hudson Bay Post. First left is John James Loutet, Hudson Bay Company Post Manager. no date.

“Fort Chipewyan is one of the oldest European settlements in the Province of Alberta. It was established as a trading post by Peter Pond of the North West Company in 1788.The Fort was named after the Chipewyan First Nation living in the area. One of the establishers of the Fort, Roderick McKenzie, always had a taste for literature, as was seen years later when he opened correspondence with traders all over the north and west, asking for descriptions of scenery, adventure, folklore and history. He also had in view the founding of a library at the fort, which would not be only for the immediate residents of Fort Chipewyan, but for traders and clerks of the whole region tributary to Lake Athabaska, so that it would be what he called, in an imaginative and somewhat jocular vein, “the little Athens of the Arctic regions.” This library became, perhaps, the most famous in the whole extent of Rupert’s Land.” [via]

(Source: pwnhc.learnnet.nt.ca)

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rpmfm:

The new CBC series 8th Fire, hosted by Wab Kinew and featuring Winnipeg’s Most amongst many other talented Indians, challenges the relationships between “us” and “them”.

Tonight debuts the first episode of 8th Fire, the new, four-part CBC series exploring relationship building between Indigenous and settler society in Canada. Geared towards a much larger, non-Indigenous audience, the first episode is meant to introduce a broad cross-section of Aboriginal peoples to Canada and features rappers Winnipeg’s Most, Taiaiake Alfred, and Evan Adams amongst others.

RPM’s Marika Swan spoke with Jon-C of hip-hop group Winnipeg’s Most about their involvement in the project. Read the whole article here: http://rpm.fm/news/new-series-the-8th-fire-premiers-on-cbc/

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Nov17

“H. G. Gylde’s Rutherford Library mural (1951) is clearly an expression of Settler culture’s constructions of “Indians” and their hoped for redemption and reformation through European forms of religion and commerce. The painting has recently been excoriated as racist and it has been suggested that it be removed, contextualized, repainted, that Aboriginal artists be commissioned to paint a rebuttal, and, in fact, Alex Janvier’s new painting hung in that space is seen as an antidote, and not. Rather than only consider the artist as an agent of Western hegemony and the painting as a uniform application of a colonial gaze, this paper examines the mural as the production of a conflicted immigrant trying to make sense of a very strange history. Far from being ideologically coherent, the painting is a scene of competing claims and uncertain alliances. I will examine Gylde’s mural within the politics of the period, but also from the point-of-view of a painter who has compassion for the artist’s impossible project, and as an Edmonton Métis with a personal connection to this representation.” Abstract for David Garneau’s upcoming keynote at the Faculty of Native Studies Research Day.

“H. G. Gylde’s Rutherford Library mural (1951) is clearly an expression of Settler culture’s constructions of “Indians” and their hoped for redemption and reformation through European forms of religion and commerce. The painting has recently been excoriated as racist and it has been suggested that it be removed, contextualized, repainted, that Aboriginal artists be commissioned to paint a rebuttal, and, in fact, Alex Janvier’s new painting hung in that space is seen as an antidote, and not. Rather than only consider the artist as an agent of Western hegemony and the painting as a uniform application of a colonial gaze, this paper examines the mural as the production of a conflicted immigrant trying to make sense of a very strange history. Far from being ideologically coherent, the painting is a scene of competing claims and uncertain alliances. I will examine Gylde’s mural within the politics of the period, but also from the point-of-view of a painter who has compassion for the artist’s impossible project, and as an Edmonton Métis with a personal connection to this representation.” Abstract for David Garneau’s upcoming keynote at the Faculty of Native Studies Research Day.

215 notes #rutherford library #edmonton #alberta #university of alberta #settlers #first nations #native #david garneau

Nov15

Covered wagons from the United States in southern Alberta, ca. 1893. “Although agricultural experience was a determining criterion for Canada’s immigration scheme, nineteenth-century racial views also influenced perceptions about which ethnic groups were desirable or undesirable. Americans, such as this group arriving in southern Alberta, and the British were at the top of the Immigration Branch’s list of most desirable immigrants.”

Covered wagons from the United States in southern Alberta, ca. 1893.

“Although agricultural experience was a determining criterion for Canada’s immigration scheme, nineteenth-century racial views also influenced perceptions about which ethnic groups were desirable or undesirable. Americans, such as this group arriving in southern Alberta, and the British were at the top of the Immigration Branch’s list of most desirable immigrants.”

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