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Archive Finding Aids

Here are detailed file-by-file descriptions of the contents of specific fonds and/or links to scanned documents.


Chief Crowfoot and family
NA-1104-1

Blackfoot Indian Agency series, Canada Department of Indian Affairs fonds

To view brief history of agency and summary of contents click here.

Inventory

These records are available on microfilm through interlibrary loan. Please have your local librarian cite the call numbers indicated in the inventory below. There will be a $15.00 (plus GST if you live in Canada) charge for this service which will be collected by your library.

 

Scanned Document indicates the presence of scanned documents

M-1785-1 Old Sun Industrial School attendance reports, 1894- 1897 Scanned Document View now.
M-1785-2 Farm Instructor diary, No. 2 farm, Cluny, 1909- 1920 Scanned Document View now.
M-1785-3Orders and correspondence re buildings and repairs on reserve, 1895-1920
M-1785-4Estimates for Saskatchewan, Alberta and the Northwest Territories, 1908-1918
M-1785-5Agency reports and returns re employees, rations, bank accounts, irrigation ditch on the reserve, convictions, advances, and health conditions, 1908
M-1785-6Agency reports and returns re annual reports, employees, bank accounts, health conditions, rations, and salary of Joseph Donnelly, 1907-1908
M-1785-7Agency reports and returns re employees, rations, bank accounts, farms, haying, statistics, annual report, coal, Indian accounts, and an Indian dying at Stony Mountain penitentiary, 1906-1907
M-1785-8Agency reports and returns re employees, bank accounts, rations, slaughter of cattle, deserted Indian woman, the number of Indians who are Catholics or Anglicans, coal mines, Indian passes, census, work on reserve, annual report, health conditions, and fine for supplying Indians with alcohol, 1905-1906
M-1785-9Correspondence re contracts for supplies; list of old and destitute on the reserve, 1912-1913
M-1785-10Correspondence re contracts for supplies, 1911- 1912
M-1785-11Correspondence re contracts for supplies, 1905- 1911
M-1785-12Correspondence re contracts for supplies, 1898- 1905
M-1785-13Correspondence re contracts for supplies, 1916- 1920
M-1785-14Correspondence re contracts for supplies, 1913- 1916
M-1785-15 General instructions to agents, 1913, 1933 Scanned Document View now.
M-1785-vol.1Returns of food supplies received and issued, and remaining in store at the Blackfoot Agency, 1917-1935
M-1785-vol.2Account book of individual Blackfoot bands, 1907- 1910
M-1785-vol.3Collection for implements for Indians, 1900- 1906
M-1782 Correspondence relating to the 1939 Royal Visit, including arrangements for Indian participation, 1938-1941
M-1783 Correspondence relating to an exhibition in Australia, including lists of handicrafts for display and sale, and information about the Indians who accompanied the display, 1938-1939.
M-1784 Papers related to the surrender of land on the Blackfoot (Siksika) reserve, including a record of the vote taken, 1918
M-1786 Paysheets for Indians who did not follow the buffalo to Montana, 1879
M-1787 Treaty paylist for the bands of Three Bulls, Weasel Calf, Running Rabbit, Old Sun, Calf Robe, Eagle Rib, Crowfoot, Medicine Shield, Bear Child, Rabbit Carrier, Low Horn, and Heavy Shield. 1880-1881
M-1817 Extracts from Blackfoot (Siksika) Indian Agency letter books kept by Indian agent, Magnus Begg, 1890 Scanned Document View now.
M-1826-1 Treaty paylist, 1918
M-1826-2 Treaty paylist, 1923
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