Prairie History #8
Summer 2022
Cover photographs clockwise from top right: “Weasel Tail or Medium Pipe, Blackfoot, 1891, IP060”, “two Tsuut’ina women, IP061”, and “Sixapo (Black Plume), Blood, 1895, IP054”. All from University of Alberta Library, Peel Collection, TR 681 I58 I64
IN THIS ISSUE
Feature Articles
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Louis Riel, Wahkohtowin, and the First Act of Resistance at Red River
BY Derrick M. Nault
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Nineteenth-Century Metis Material Culture at Red River and the Struggle for Landownership
BY Christoph Laugs
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Wapaha Sk ̅a Dakota Oyat ̅e Ihduhap ̅i: Widening the Lens on Whitecap Dakota First Nation in Pion-Era Photographs, 1955-1969
BY Stephanie M. Danyluk, Canadian Museums Association, Melvin Littlecrow, Federation of Saskatchewan Indigenous Nations Senator and Elder, and Elizabeth A. Scott, Western Development Museum
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The West Beyond the Levant: Comparing British and Ottoman Colonization in the Writings of Algernon Heber-Percy
BY Daniel Sims
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Wahkotowin, Keemooch, and Home: A History of the Conklin Métis Community, 1886-2020
BY Peter Fortna
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Indigenous Perspective on Heritage Conservation and the Ecomuseum Approach: Initial Findings from Saskatchewan
BY Dwight Peigan, Royal Saskatchewan Museum, Glenn Sutter, Royal Saskatchewan Museum, and Amber J. Fletcher, University of Regina
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Transforming the Settler-Colonial Criminal Justice System: A History of First Nations Efforts in Saskatchewan, 1970s-1980s
BY Laura Beach
Prairie Pageant
Book Reviews
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Katherine A. H. Graham and David Newhouse (eds.), Sharing the Land, Sharing a Future: The Legacy of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, University of Manitoba Press, 2021
BY Sheilla Jones
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Travis Hay, Inventing the Thrifty Gene: The Science of Settler Colonialism, University of Manitoba Press, 2021
BY Caden Colegrove
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Nancy Marguerite Anderson, The York Factory Express: Fort Vancouver to Hudson Bay, 1826-1849, Vancouver: Ronsdale Books, 2021
BY Sheila Grover
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Bruce Erickson and Sarah Wylie Krotz (eds.), The Politics of the Canoe, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2021
BY Jamie Benidickson
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Exhibit Review: Kwaata-Nihtaawakihk: A Hard Birth, Winnipeg Art Gallery, 19 March – 3 September 2022
BY Amanda McLeod
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Sarah Whitecalf, Cree is Who I Truly Am – Me I Am Truly a Cree Woman: A Life Told by Sarah Whitecalf. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2021
BY Nicole Rosen
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Sarah Carter and Inez Lightning, Ancestors: Indigenous Peoples of Western Canada in Historic Photographs, Bruce Peel Special Collections, University of Alberta Press, 2021
BY Felix Berry
Artifactual
Prairie Gazette
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Endangered Places in Canada
BY Sheila Grover
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2021 Top-Ten Endangered Structures in Manitoba
BY Gordon Goldsborough
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They Remember. They Remember Us. They Remember for Us.
BY Tarah Hogue
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New Government of Canada Legislation Gives Indigenous People A Stronger Voice
BY Greg Thomas
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New from Canada Post: Indigenous Leaders Honoured, and Help for Ukraine
BY Sheila Grover
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Sacred Artifacts Returned to Alberta’s Blackfoot Community
BY Greg Thomas
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Woodland Caribou in Canada’s Boreal Forest
BY Sheila Grover
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‘Wordle’ Word Game Assisting Old Languages
BY Sheila Grover
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Winnipeg’s Bay Building Gets New Lease on Life
BY Greg Thomas
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2021 Margaret McWilliams Awards
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