Photos, videos and docs of Canafornian, with the keywords: "first nations"

NA0138 INDIAN CHIEFS AND THEIR WIGWAM

nobody@ipernity.com (Canafornian) — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 04:09:35 +0000

POSTCARD

Date: Not evident. Not Posted.

Publisher / Photographer: C. S. Co. Ltd. #22

WP2168 WPG - FOUR WORLD CHAMPIONS OF 1912… WINNIPEG 1913 [STAMPEDE]

nobody@ipernity.com (Canafornian) — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 23:04:42 +0000

POSTCARD

Date: Not evident. Not Posted.

Publisher / Photographer: Lyall Commercial.

Notation: All four of these men, appearing in Winnipeg's 1913 Stampede were winners at the 1912 stampede in Calgary.
"Tex" McLeod, Fanny Sperry, Jim Massey, and Otto Kline.

WP2167 WPG - BLOOD INDIANS WINNIPEG STAMPEDE 1913

nobody@ipernity.com (Canafornian) — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 23:04:35 +0000

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POSTCARD

Date: Not evident. Not Posted.

Publisher / Photographer: Lyall Commercial.

Notation: Interestingly, most if not all of the First Nations folks who were part of the show at the Winnipeg Stampede were from Alberta. The organiser, Guy Weadick recruited them because they had done such a great job at his stampede in Calgary in 1912.

PMB072 VICTORIA BEACH - A SQUAW WITH TWO PAPOOSE

nobody@ipernity.com (Canafornian) — Sat, 31 Dec 2016 03:14:38 +0000

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PHOTOGRAPH
6 X 10 cm

Date: As written on border: July 19, 1923

Publisher / Photographer: This was from a set of photos taken by a traveller who came up to Manitoba through the central U.S., headed east to the Maritimes, and continued south through the eastern U.S.

Notation: This appears to be a storefront at Victoria Beach. The man on the steps appears in many of the other photos and must be the travelling companion of the photographer. An aboriginal woman and two of her children are on the platform behind him. See close-up below:

NA0135 GREETINGS FROM CANADA [ACCORDION CARD]

nobody@ipernity.com (Canafornian) — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 14:38:30 +0000

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POSTCARD

Date: Not evident. Not Posted.

Publisher / Photographer: Valentine Series

Notation: Pretty stunning message in the face of our current understandings/perspectives of colonialism, racism and discrimination.

Opening the flap on the chest area releases and accordion strip of eleven small images of indigenous people - all derived from images on actual postcards.

Here is the strip of attached images.

PMB064 MISKOOPENAISES SQUAW CHIPPEWA INDIANS

nobody@ipernity.com (Canafornian) — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 05:07:03 +0000

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PHOTOGRAPH
11.5cm X 9 cm

Date: Not evident.

Publisher / Photographer: J. H. Clarke, West Selkirk, Manitoba

Notation: J. H. Clark was a photographer and reasonably prolific postcard publisher, publishing lithographic images of his photos as early as 1906. His postcard images were primarily of scenes in the Rocky Mountains but he also captured scenes in Manitoba & Northwestern Ontario.

At some point in his career, he took an impressive set of photographs of first nations people. This one, entitled "Miskoopenaises, Squaw, Chippewa Indians", was #5 in a series.

KN0350 KENORA - AN INDIAN CRADLE

nobody@ipernity.com (Canafornian) — Mon, 12 Oct 2015 16:41:02 +0000

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POSTCARD

Date: Posted July 18, 1905

Publisher / Photographer: Johnson's Pharmacy, Rat Portage, Ont. #1108

PON002 No 184 INDIAN TREATY, RAT PORTAGE, ON LAKE OF THE WOODS

nobody@ipernity.com (Canafornian) — Mon, 12 Oct 2015 03:08:27 +0000

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PHOTOGRAPH
7.75 x 4.25 cm (without border)

Date: Not evident - likely late 1800s

Publisher: Trueman & Caple Photograpers SW Cor. Cordova and Cambie Sts., Vancouver, B.C.
Photographer: No other photographer is identified on this photo card, A glass plate of this image exists in the City of Vancouver Archives and the photographer is listed as Norman Caple.

NA0134 NATIVE AMERICAN ELDER - WOMAN

nobody@ipernity.com (Canafornian) — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 02:23:35 +0000

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POSTCARD

Date: Not posted, Handwritten message dates the card as July 2nd, 1904. Sent from Moosomin to London, England.

Publisher / Photographer: Unidentified

Notation: Early unusual Velox stamp box.