Adam Solway interview 1
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Date
1983-01-29
Authors
Solway, Adam
Welsh, Christine
Snowsill, Tony
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Publisher
Canadian Plains Research Centre
Abstract
Consists of an interview where Adam Solway talks about being orphaned at 8 years and adopted by the Blackfoot Reserve, Alta; his attendance at a residential school; becoming a councillor and then chief of the reserve. He comments on the issues he had to deal with as well as providing comments on contemporary lifestyles and leadership.
Description
27 p. transcript of an interview with Adam Solway conducted by Christine Welsh and Tony Snowsill on January 29, 1983. Tape number IH-010, transcript disc 4.
Keywords
Agriculture, Assimilation, Ayoungman, Band management, Bands, Big Eye, Jim, Blackfoot, Blackfoot Reserve, Boy Chief, Brave Dog Society (Blackfoot), Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), Cardston, Alberta, Cattle-raising, Ceremonies, Chicken Society (Blackfoot), Chiefs and chieftainship, Chretien, Jean, Christian churches, Clothing and personal adornment, Communalism, Crowfoot, Death, Department of Indian Affairs, Discrimination against women, Disease and illness, Duck Chief, Early reserve period, Education, Elders, Farming, Food, Gladstone, Senator James, Government by Indigenous people, Governmental relations, Heavy Shield, High Eagle, Hind Bull, Hockey, Horses, Indian Act, Indigenous religions, Land, Land agreements, Land surrender, Leases, Legislation, Liquor rights, Loss of values, Management of Blackfoot Reserve, Medicine Shield, Frank, Missionaries, Munro, John, Nakoda, Niitsítapi, Old Lady Society (Blackfoot), Permit system, Piegan, Political organizations, Rations, Residential schools, Respect, Sarcee, Self-sufficiency, Sharing, Smallpox, Social organization, Societies, Spirits of the dead, Sports, Sundance, Sundance (Blackfoot), Technological change, Telephones, Three Suns, Treaties, Treaty status, Trudeau, Pierre, Trust fund, Tsuut'ina, Values, Wages, White Paper (1969), Women, Work