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Language:English
Date:1905-1910
Contributor:Jacobs, Norman Leonard, 1885-
Subject:Railroads | Fishing | Clothing and dress | Rites and ceremonies | Social life and customs | Architecture | British Columbia--History | Manitoba--History | Alberta--History | Saskatchewan--History | Ontario--History
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Correspondence | Photographs
Extent:1 linear foot
Description: Norman Leonard Jacobs was an engineer and surveyor with the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway in Canada. The collection consists of his correspondence with Bessie Frank (later Anathan), an acquaintance from Pittsburgh. Jacobs wrote of daily life in Canadian cities like Winnipeg and Edmonton, interactions with First Nations, and daily hardships encountered in the field (extreme cold, snowblindness, and lack of food), but also spoke of his work with pride and enthusiasm. In addition to the letters, Jacobs wrote twenty-eight pages of a "Diary of a Tenderfoot." Also included in the collection are two photobooks and various loose photographs, which display various aspects of camp life, details of work sites and the Canadian landscape, and First Nations peoples. Some of the photographs are extremely faded. Native peoples mentioned include Ojibwe, Blackfoot, Cree, "Surteau" (likely Saulteaux),"Bloods" (Kainai), "Stonies" (Nakoda, or "Stoney"), as well as Native people at Tete Jaune Cache who are likely Simpcw. The images include family groups; men, women, and children fishing; men (some apparently hired by Jacobs or his company to act as guides and carriers in the field) working with an infant in a cradleboard; Ojibwe graves; tepees [tipis]; "Sioux" warriors; a sweat bath; horse races; individuals like Joe KaeKwitch, Chief Handorgan, Chief Wingard, Muskowken, etc. Most of these materials have been digitized and are available through the APS's Digital Library. Also see the finding aid for more background information on Jacobs and detailed itemized lists for both Series I. Correspondence and Series II. Graphic Materials.
Collection:Anathan-Jacobs Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Collection (Mss.SMs.Coll.13)
Culture:
Stoney includes: Nakoda
Date:1883-1886
Contributor:Barker, Anna E.
Subject:Linguistics | Alberta--History
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:9 leaves
Description: List gathered by matron of Macdougall Methodist Orphanage, Morley, North West Territories [i.e., Alberta]. English-Stoney, alphabetical by English. Numerals. Letter, Lucile Yerdon (owner of original, who made the typescript in January 1948), Fort Plain, New York, to Charles Marius Barbeau, March 21, 1948.
Collection:Around 500 words in the Mountain Stoney dialect gathered from a branch of the Sioux Indians (Mss.497.2.B24)
Culture:
Stoney includes: Nakoda
Date:1969-1972
Contributor:Good, Willie | Harbeck, Warren A. | Simeon, Carl | Taylor, Allan R. (Allan Ross), 1931-
Subject:Folklore | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Essays | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:90 pages
Description: The Stoney materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 2 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Harbeck and Taylor.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)