Our Legacy: Essays

Using as a starting point the themes evident from material identified on the Our Legacy website, 11 graduate students have provided their unique perspectives and insights by critically examining past and present Canadian Aboriginal experience and culture, and the impact of Newcomer relations.

Published as kā-kī-pē-isi-nakatamākawiyahk / Our Legacy: Essays, PDF versions may be downloaded below. Fully illustrated versions of the essays are also available as part of the Our Legacy site: http://digital.scaa.sk.ca/ourlegacy/exhibits.

• Download full volume (archival version: as originally published)

Individual sections/chapters: (Updated with revisions)

• Frontmatter
• Cheryl Avery and Darlene Fichter, Introduction
• Deborah Lee,The Importance of Easy Access to Online Information Resources for Aboriginal Researchers
• Essays
  • Liam Haggarty, nêhiyawak (Plains Cree) Leadership on the Plains
  • Brendan F.R. Edwards, "He Scarcely Resembles the Real Man": Images of the Indian in Popular Culture
  • Tamara Starblanket, Treaties: Negotiations and Rights. Note: This is an updated version of the essay (2018)
  • Camie Augustus, Métis Scrip
  • Kurt Boyer, 1885 – Aftermath
  • Anna Flaminio, Since Time Immemorial...
  • Merle Massie, Trapping and Trapline Life
  • Yvonne Vizina, Métis Culture
  • Patricia Deiter, Tawow Welcome to Pow-wow Country!
  • Meagan Gough, The Changing Relationship between First Nations Peoples and Museums
  • Alan Long, Narratives and Drama in 1885
• Contributors