Sioux Indians - Prince Albert
| Database ID | 28827 | |
| Institution | Prince Albert Historical Society | |
| Fonds/Collection | PAHS Archives collection | |
| Series | b | |
| File/Item Reference | b-135 | |
| Date of creation | n.d. | |
| Physical description/extent | 1 file; .5 cm | |
| Number of images | 1 | |
| Scope and content | File contains materials related to the Dakota (Sioux) people who settled in the Prince Albert area following displacement in the United States, as well as general material on the Dakota people. Includes an article entitled "The First Sioux Nun: Sister Marie-Josephine Nebraska, S.G.M. 1859-1894" by Sister Mary Ione Hilger, O.S.B., correspondence from the Department of Indian Affairs regarding complaints about dances held near Prince Albert (1917), an article entitled "Sioux Indians in Canada" by Ida M.C. Thompson which discusses the encampment of Dakota people established by the Little Red River just north of Prince Albert, some clippings from an unidentified newspaper regarding the deaths of Chiefs from the Wahpeton (Round Plain) Reserve entitled "Indian Leader is Laid to Rest: Flying Buffalo is Mourned by Band of Sioux Indians Chief Denies Story That His People Were Connected with Custer Massacre," and "Sioux Indians Mourn Death of Chief Toma Buried Saturday at Round Plain Indian Reserve." File also contains correspondence from the early 1970s expressing opposition to a plan by the city to turn the "Sioux Plains" (an area in the current Little Red River Park where the Dakota had originally settled) into a garbage dump. File also includes an article entitled "Faith journeys of the Sioux" by Pam Bauer (1985) discussing what it means to be "both an Indian and a Catholic." | |
| Restrictions on access | None. | |
| 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 | |
| Provenance Access Point | PAHS Archives | |
| Place | Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada | |
| Treaty boundaries | Treaty 6 No treaty International | |
| Cultural region | Plains Subarctic International | |
| Names | Baker, Lucy M. Bauer, Pam Beardy ** [kâ-mîyastowçsit Black, John Custer, George Armstrong, 1839-1876 Flying Buffalo Iron Buffalo (Tatankamaza) Morgan, Ed Nebraska, Marie-Josephine (Sister) Toma (Chief) Twobears, Henry Wapahaska Whitecap | |
| Subject | Community Histories Sacred sites Settlements -- Camps Community Life Churches -- Roman Catholic Relocation Migration Indigenous Peoples General Indigenous Relations Culture Dakota (Sioux) Sioux - unspecified Dakota/Lakota/Nakota Cree | |
| Date Range(s) | 1880-1889 1870-1879 1900-1909 | |
| Permanent Link | https://digital.scaa.sk.ca/ourlegacy/permalink/28827
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