Annie Ikkidluak with Iola. Photographed at Kimmirut (Nunavut) in 1964. ‘Annie followed in the footsteps of her grandmother Iggalak to become local midwife.’

📷 Freddie Knight | Hudson’s Bay Company Archives.

Bessie Martin (Yellowknives Dene) using a dipper to enjoy some fresh water. Photographed near Dettah, Northwest Territories in 1970.

📷 Rene Fumoleau | NWT Archives

Jazz musician Jim Pepper 1941-1992 (Kaw/Creek) ‘The success of “Witchi-Tai-To,” led him to alternate mainstream and avant-garde jazz with performances of Creek, Lakota, Caddo, and other American Indian songs.’ - PJCE Records

A feature on ‘People of the Watershed’, in the May issue of Macleans Magazine. Opens at The McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinberg, Ontario on May 11, running until November. I was honoured to curate this. I hope you get a chance to take it in.

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Douglas Kakekaspan of Fort Severn, making bannock on the shore of Hudson Bay. Photographed in 1953.

📷 John Macfie | from ‘People of the Watershed,’ opening at The McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinberg, Ontario, on May 11.

Stoney Nakoda girl on horseback. Possibly photographed at Banff Indian Days. No specific year, but likely 1930s. (so far, unidentified).

📷 Dan McCowan | Glenbow. University of Calgary Digital Collections

Jumps-From-Cloud-to-Cloud (Aa'aazhawaana kwadaashiik). Photographed around 1930 at Berens River, Manitoba, Treaty 5. Named by Pat Ningewance.

📷 Alfred Irving Hallowell | American Philosophical Society

Woman in an amauti with infant, cleaning a seal skin in fresh water. Color slide photographed in 1947. Location listed as possibly Rankin Inlet or Arviat.

📷 Thomas Paterson | maa University of Cambridge

Studio portrait photographed at Brewer Studio, Calgary, Alberta around 1912. (L-R) Anthony Dodging Horse; George Big Plume; Frank One Spot; Pat Dodging Horse.

📷 Brewer Studio | Digital Collections, Univ. of Calgary

Two girls watching the rodeo. Photographed during Banff Indian Days, 1950s.

📷 Peter & Catharine Whyte | Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies