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An Indigenous individual in traditional costume performing an Eagle dance; other Indigenous performers in costume are on the sideline watching the performance.. Gateway Camera Club of Edmonton

View of a parade featuring two horse-pulled floats,one which is the Native Pioneers float. Crowds of people line the street and the Corona Flower Shop sign is visible.

A distant view of Indigenous individuals in traditional dress parading on horseback down an urban street; the backs of bystanders lining the parade route are in the photo foreground.

Indigenous painted teepees set up in Edmonton for the Royal Visit of 1939; a young boy is in the foreground while other individuals are sitting and standing outside the tents in the background.
See EA-160-1795 and EA-302-10 for similar views.

Four Cree individuals, three identified as Marie Decoteau (second from left), Charlie Decoteau (boy in front), and Emily Decoteau (far right), standing outside a log and sod building.

Indigenous painted teepees set up at Kingsway Avenue and 109th street in Edmonton for the Royal Visit of 1939; individuals, including children, are standing outside the tents and along the sidewalk and flags and an advertising billboard are also visible.
Similar to EA-160-1795 and EA-302-92

This fonds consists of correspondence, ledgers and account books, and land scrip registers from the firm of McDougall & Secord reflecting their business operations as fur traders, general merchants, and land speculators.

Some of the records demonstrate the potential impact of the Metis scrip system created by the Canadian government. The government issued scrip documents to the Metis people living in the West ostensibly to assist with their transition to an agrarian lifestyle but really to effect an exchange for their Indigenous land rights. The scrip was redeemable for either land or money. However, the system was complex, possibly misunderstood or underappreciated by the Metis who did not wish to transition away from their traditional lifestyle, and the government’s tolerance of entrepreneurs acquiring the scrip (essentially rights to land ownership) in turn from the Metis is in itself controversial as potentially an extension of the Government's policy to extinguish Indigenous title to the land.

It is notable that the degree to which land sale documentation was completed is noticeably different depending if the other party in the sale was Indigenous or non-Indigenous.

Indigenous couple posed standing in front of their teepee in the mountains; the hymn lyrics by Isaac Watts, "People and realms of every tongue." is attached to the front of the slide. These glass negatives were taken from a glass slide collection entitled

Head and shoulders portrait of an Indigenous man wearing a headdress and traditional clothing.