Sault Ste. Marie (Ont.)

Shingwauk Education Trust (SET) was founded by a vision of an Ojibwe, Chief Shingwauk; to create a “Teaching Wigwam”, with an overall goal of providing education to Anishinaabe students. The Shingwauk Education Trust recognized the need to work with the communities and to ensure programs were developed like the First Nations Access Program to improve student retention and student graduate rates. The aims of SET include : 1) To provide opportunities for the educational development of Anishinaabe people and other students of native heritage. 2) To deliver educational, social, cultural, and economic development programs designed to advance aboriginal people. 3) To initiate cooperative educational programs of cross-cultural education between Anishinaabe people and others. Since its establishment, SET has been been involved and coordinated a number of community based healing and education projects. In May 2006, SET and Algoma University established Shingwauk Kinoomaage Gamig, also known as Shingwauk University, an independent and degree-granting post secondary institution. The Shingwauk Covenant states that Anishinaabe, Canadian and International staff and students must learn to respect and understand each other's knowledge and cultural differences.

Hassan Nawaz Gardezi is a Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Algoma University College. He began teaching at Algoma University College,Sault Ste Marie, Ontario in 1970. He began his academic career as a lecturer and head of the Department of Sociology at Punjab University. He moved to North America in the late 1960s. He has written on issues relating to the political economy of Pakistan and South Asia and has been a member of the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars (BCAS) editorial board since 1978. Gardezi also played a key role in creating the Pakistan Philosophical Congress (PPC), the Pakistan Sociological Association (PSA), and the Pakistan Psychological Association (PPA). Representative publications include: "The South Asian Bomb: reality and Illusion" (1999), "The Political Economy of International Labour Migration" (1995), "Understanding Pakistan: the colonial factor in societal development" (1991), Pakistan: the unstable state (1983), "Sociology in Pakistan" (1966).

This photo album was given to Edward F. Wilson by the Shingwauk students during his tenure (1870-1893) as principal at the Shingwauk Indian Residential School.