Requests by White Settlers to Open up Indian Reserves for Homesteading, Petition for Assistance for Maple Creek Indians
Database ID | 24783 | |
Institution | Saskatchewan Archives Board | |
Fonds/Collection | Saskatchewan Department of Natural Resources | |
Series | NR1/1 | |
File/Item Reference | NR1/1-F-400-IR | |
Date of creation | 1930-1931 | |
Physical description/extent | 1 folder; 2 mm | |
Number of images | 1 | |
Scope and content | Correspondence including and related to demands by white settlers that lands on Indian Reserves in Saskatchewan be opened to settlement, and some related to Aboriginal grievances. Also includes a request by a Maple Creek area Rancher for assistance for local Indians. Concerned are the White Bear and Standing Buffalo Bands, as well as the Yorkton Reserve and the small reserve near Maple Creek. | |
Restrictions on access | See Saskatchewan Archives Board | |
Copyright holder | Unknown | |
Copyright expiry date | Unknown | |
Other terms governing use and reproduction | Responsibility regarding questions of copyright that may arise in the use of any images is assumed by the researcher. | |
Type | Archival | |
Primary Media | Textual documents | |
Specific document types | Correspondence | |
Provenance Access Point | Saskatchewan Department of Natural Resources | |
Place | Whitewood, Saskatchewan, Canada Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada Maple Creek, Saskatchewan, Canada Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada | |
Treaty boundaries | Treaty 4 Treaty 6 No treaty | |
Cultural region | Plains Subarctic Canada -- National | |
Names | Anderson, James Thomas Milton, 1878-1946 (Premier) Barnett, John Cameron, John Murphy, Thomas G. Sweeting, R.H. Tawiyaka, Louis | |
Subject | Land Claims Legal Issues Reserves -- Rent Rent Reserves -- Expulsion Reserves Assistance Indigenous Relations Early European Settlers Government policy | |
Date Range(s) | 1930-1939 | |
Permanent Link | https://digital.scaa.sk.ca/ourlegacy/permalink/24783 |