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