Jim Black interview

Date
1974-01-18
Authors
Black, Jim
Wolfleg, Allan J.
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Canadian Plains Research Centre
Abstract

An interview discussing various topics: evidence given to the Office of Specific Claims and Research by Jim Black; signing of Treaty #7; an account of the CPR line being taken through Blackfoot Reserve territory; a description of two murders: Frank Skynner killed by Scrapings, and Charcoal's murder of Medicine Pipe Stem; the surrender of Blackfoot Reserve land; and an understanding of land rights.

Description
26 p. transcript of an interview with Jim Black, conducted by Allan J. Wolfleg on January 18, 1974. Tape number IH-AA.226, transcript disc 39.
Keywords
Blackfoot Reserve -- And CPR, Blackfoot Reserve -- Land sale, Blackfoot Reserve -- Trust fund, distribution of, Canadian Pacific Railway -- Land agreements, Crimes and punishments -- Adultery, Crimes and punishments -- Murder, Indian Affairs, Department of -- Indian agents, Land -- Mineral rights, Land -- Ownership, Concepts of, Land -- Sale, Metis -- And Treaty #7, Missionaries -- Attitudes toward, North West Mounted Police -- Attitudes to, Treaty #6, Treaty #7 -- And Crowfoot, Treaty #7 -- And the Metis, Treaty #7 -- Payment of treaty money
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