Dolly Creighton fonds

St. Paul’s Indian Residential School (Blood Reserve, Cardston, Alta.)

Geographic Access:

Blood Reserve (Alta.)

Access Restriction:

Some restrictions may apply. A set of photographs depicting a sacred ceremony have restricted access and are not available online.

Description Level:

Fonds

Name Access:

End Date:

1954

Date Range:

[Digitized 2005 (originally created 1891-1895, 1912-1916, 1954)]

Repro Restriction:

Permission of the donor is required for reproduction where applicable. Researchers must adhere to applicable copyright law and privacy legislation and permission of the copyright holder is required to publish from the fonds.

Conservation:

Basic conservation performed during processing.

Physical Description:

829 MB of graphic material. - 89 photographs : b&w ; (tiff)

Arrangement:

Thematically by item type

History Biographical:

Adelaide (Dolly Creighton) is a member of the Blood Tribe (Kainai) in Southern Alberta. She is the mother of three children and a grandmother of six. She has a background in nursing, social work, community health, mental health therapy, community development, and personal growth development. In March 2003 she completed her studies as a Master Practitioner in Psycho-somatic Therapy. Dolly has also studied Reiki, crystal light therapy, and hypno-therapy.

Scope Content:

Fonds comprises photographs of the people, buildings, and activities at the Blood Reserve in Alberta, Canada. Fonds also includes photographs students at St. Paul's Anglican Mission.

Repository:

srsc

Photographs of people on the Blood Reserve

GMD:

Start Date:

1914

Description Level:

End Date:

1920

Date Range:

[Digitized 2005 (originally created 1914-1920)]

Image:

Physical Description:

30.4 MB of graphic material. - 4 photographs : b&w ; (tiff)

Notes:

Photographs include:

1) Chief Mountain and his wife, Winnie Howling in the Night, 1914

2) Percy W Bull and Charles Davids, Blood Reserve, ca. 1916

3) Sikski (Black Face), wife of Mountain Horse, 1920

4) Mrs Russell and Ester, at St. Paul's Anglican Mission, 1915

rec_shelfloc:

2010-024-001

Repository:

Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre

Accession No:

Dora Cliff fonds

Container Number:

001

Photograph of three boys with trophies

GMD:

Start Date:

1940

Description Level:

End Date:

1960

Date Range:

[Digitized 2005 (originally created ca. 1950)]

Image:

Physical Description:

5.48 MB of graphic material. - 1 photograph : b&w

Notes:

Photograph of three boys with trophies

rec_shelfloc:

2010-042-001

Repository:

Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Photographs of a sketch of the Blood Reserve and of elders

GMD:

Start Date:

1950

Description Level:

End Date:

1965

Date Range:

[Digitized 2005 (originally created 1950-1965)]

Image:

Physical Description:

21.5 MB of graphic material. - 2 photograph : col.

Notes:

Photographs include:

1) Photograph of a sketch of the Blood Reserve and of elders

2) Back of photograph one

3) Photograph of two elders and children

rec_shelfloc:

2010-042-001

Repository:

Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Photographs of members of the Blood Reserve

GMD:

Start Date:

1913

Description Level:

End Date:

1913

Date Range:

1913

Image:

Physical Description:

22.4 MB of graphic material. - 3 photographs : b&w

Notes:

Photographs include:

1) Photographs of a group of people in traditional dress

2) Rea Leggings and Coyote Woman (sister of old Sweet Grass) and son

3) Photographs of members of the Blood Reserve

rec_shelfloc:

2010-042-001

Repository:

Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Photographs of tipis and people on the Blood Reserve

GMD:

Start Date:

1892

Description Level:

End Date:

1892

Date Range:

[Digitized 2005 (originally created 1892 and 1894)]

Image:

Physical Description:

44.8 MB of graphic material. - 6 photographs : b&w

Notes:

Photographs include:

1) Painted tipi, animal design, Blood Reserve, 1892

2) Painted tipi, Blood Reserve, 1984

3) Crow tipi, Blood Reserve, 1894

4) Buffalo head tipi, Blood Reserve, 1897

5) Tipi, Blood Reserve, 1894

6) Striped Wolf (a Blood Warrior) and his two wives, 1892

rec_shelfloc:

2010-042-001

Repository:

Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Photographs of the construction of the Old Women's Society lodge

GMD:

Start Date:

1893

Description Level:

End Date:

1893

Date Range:

[Digitized 2005 (originally created 1893)]

Image:

Physical Description:

39.8 MB of graphic material. - 5 photographs : b&w (tiff)

Notes:

Photographs include:

1) Old Women's Society lodge, Blood Reserve, stage one, 1893

2) Old Women's Society lodge, Blood Reserve, stage two, 1893

3) Old Women's Society lodge, Blood Reserve, stage three, 1893

4) Old Women's Society lodge, Blood Reserve, stage four, 1893

5) Old Women's Society lodge, Blood Reserve, completed, 1893

rec_shelfloc:

2010-042-001

Repository:

Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Photographs of the Old Women's Society and the construction of the dance lodge

GMD:

Start Date:

1893

Description Level:

End Date:

1893

Date Range:

[Digitized 2005 (originally created 1893)]

Image:

Physical Description:

79.5 MB of graphic material. - 10 photographs : b&w ; (tiff)

Notes:

Photographs include:

1) Members of the Blood Old Women's Society, standing, 1893

2) Members of the Blood Old Women's Society, sitting, 1893

3) Blood Sun Dance lodge, preparing to raise centre pole, 1893

4) Blood Sun Dance lodge, procession approaching centre, 1893

5) Blood Sun Dance lodge, pole raising gathering, 1893

6) Blood Sun Dance lodge, pole raisers moving in, 1893

7) Blood Sun Dance lodge, pole being raised, 1893

8) Blood Sun Dance lodge, pole in place, 1893

9) Blood Sun Dance lodge, pulling rafters in place, 1893

10) Blood Sun Dance lodge, completing frame, 1893

rec_shelfloc:

2010-042-001

Repository:

Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Photographs of Blood Dance lodge, riders, and a tipi

GMD:

Start Date:

1892

Description Level:

End Date:

1893

Date Range:

[Digitized 2005 (originally created 1892-1893)]

Image:

Physical Description:

31 MB of graphic material. - 3 photographs : b&w ; (tiff)

Notes:

Photographs include:

1) Blood Sun Dance lodge, 1893

2) Riders near Blood Sun Dance lodge, 1893

3) Jerry Potts beside a ceremonial tipi, ca. 1892

rec_shelfloc:

2010-042-001

Repository:

Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Photographs of Chief Red Crow

GMD:

Start Date:

1892

Description Level:

End Date:

1892

Date Range:

[Digitized 2005 (originally created 1892)]

Image:

Physical Description:

26 MB of graphic material. - 2 photographs : b&w ; (tiff)

Notes:

Photographs include:

1) Red Crow, head chief of Bloods, 1892

2) Red Crow, head chief of Bloods, 1892

rec_shelfloc:

2010-042-001

Repository:

Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Photographs of Minnie

GMD:

Start Date:

1891

Description Level:

End Date:

1891

Date Range:

[Digitized 2005 (originally created 1891)]

Image:

Physical Description:

40 MB of graphic material. - 3 photographs : b&w ; (tiff)

Notes:

Photographs include:

1) Minnie, on horseback, 1891

2) Minnie, 1891

3) Minnie, 1891

rec_shelfloc:

2010-042-001

Repository:

Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Photographs of boys and a head dress

GMD:

Start Date:

1892

Description Level:

End Date:

1894

Date Range:

[Digitized 2005 (originally created 1892, 1894)]

Image:

Physical Description:

27 MB of graphic material. - 2 photographs : b&w ; (tiff)

Notes:

Photographs include:

1) Blood Reserve boys, 1894

2) Trailing head dress of Red Crow, Blood head chief, 1892

rec_shelfloc:

2010-042-001

Repository:

Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Photographs of visiting Assiniboine peoples

GMD:

Start Date:

1893

Description Level:

End Date:

1893

Date Range:

[Digitized 2005 (originally created 1893)]

Image:

Physical Description:

32.6 MB of graphic material. - 3 photographs : b&w ; (tiff)

Notes:

Photographs include:

1) Assiniboine peoples from Mountain visiting Blood Reserve, 1893

2) Assiniboine peoples from Mountain visiting Blood Reserve, 1893

3) Assiniboine peoples from Mountain visiting Blood Reserve, 1893

rec_shelfloc:

2010-042-001

Repository:

Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Photographs of Peigan Reserve

GMD:

Start Date:

1892

Description Level:

End Date:

1892

Date Range:

[Digitized 2005 (originally created 1892)]

Image:

Physical Description:

24 MB of graphic material. - 3 photographs : b&w ; (tiff)

Notes:

Photographs include:
1) Rev. W.R. Haynes, Anglican Missionary, Peigan Reserve, ca. 1892

2) Victoria Jubilee Home at Peigan Anglican Mission, ca. 1892

3) Anglican Mission home, Peigan Reserve, ca. 1892

rec_shelfloc:

2010-042-001

Repository:

Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Photographs of a sawmill, Waterton, and US border

GMD:

Start Date:

1892

Description Level:

End Date:

1915

Date Range:

[Digitized 2005 (originally created 1892, 1915)]

Image:

Physical Description:

24.6 MB of graphic material. - 3 photographs : b&w ; (tiff)

Notes:

Photographs include:
1) Peigan sawmill in Porcupine Hills, 1892

2) Tourists at Waterton, ca. 1892

3) Twin Lakes custom office, US side, Rev. Middleton and son Charlie, 1915

rec_shelfloc:

2010-042-001

Repository:

Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Photographs of a group of people, and newspaper clippings

GMD:

Start Date:

1958

Description Level:

End Date:

1958

Date Range:

[Digitized 2005 (originally created ca. 1958)]

Image:

Physical Description:

81.7 MB of graphic material and textual record. - 3 photographs

Notes:

Photographs include:
1) Photograph of a group of people

2) Photograph of newspaper clippings

3) Photograph of Okanagan Lake at the Landing, B.C.

rec_shelfloc:

2010-042-001

Repository:

Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Photographs of people on the Blood Reserve

GMD:

Start Date:

1912

Description Level:

End Date:

1918

Date Range:

[Digitized 2005 (originally created 1912-1918)]

Image:

Physical Description:

32.6 MB of graphic material. - 4 photographs : b&w ; (tiff)

Notes:

Photographs include:

1) Mrs Mountain Horse, Canon S. H. Middleton, and Pipe Woman, 1918

2) Cannon S.H. Middleton, Jim Healy, Joe Jealy, and Mountain Horse, 1912

3) Mike Healy, Joe Healy, Mountain Horse, Ernest Brave Rock, Rev. Middleton, Freddy Weasel Fat, Teddy Bullshield, Tom Prairie Chicken, Louis Owl Boy, Dan Chief Moon, and Reggie Mountain Horse

4) Joe Healy and family, 1916

rec_shelfloc:

2010-042-001

Repository:

Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Photographs of families on the Blood Reserve

GMD:

Start Date:

1912

Description Level:

End Date:

1916

Date Range:

[Digitized 2005 (originally created 1912, 1916)]

Image:

Physical Description:

36.2 MB of graphic material. - 5 photographs : b&w ; tiff

Notes:

Photographs include:
1) Joe Healy and family, Blood Reserve, ca. 1916

2) Children of Joseph Healy, Blood Reserve, ca. 1916

3) Mike Mountain Horse, Blood Reserve, ca. 1912

4) Mike Mountain Horse, Blood Reserve, ca. 1912

5) Eagle Speaker, Blood Reserve, showing dancing headdress, 1912

rec_shelfloc:

2010-042-001

Repository:

Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Photographs of people on the Blood Reserve

GMD:

Start Date:

1912

Description Level:

End Date:

1912

Date Range:

[Digitized 2005 (originally created 1912)]

Image:

Physical Description:

13.8 MB of graphic material. - 2 photographs : b&w ; (tiff)

Notes:

Photographs include:
1) Voting on a proposal to surrender part of the Blood Reserve, they voted against it, 1917

2) George Prairie Chicken, signalling with a mirror, St. Paul's Anglican Mission, 1912

rec_shelfloc:

2010-042-001

Repository:

Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Photographs of Blood Reserve and community voting

GMD:

Start Date:

1916

Description Level:

End Date:

1917

Date Range:

[Digitized 2005 (originally created 1916-1917)]

Image:

Physical Description:

22 MB of graphic material. - 3 photographs : b&w ; (tiff)

Notes:

Photographs include:

1) View of Blood Reserve camps, ca. 1916

2) Voting on a proposal to surrender part of the Blood Reserve, they voted against it, 1917

3) Voting on a proposal to surrender part of the Blood Reserve, they voted against it, 1917

rec_shelfloc:

2010-042-001

Repository:

Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Photographs of people and buildings on the blood reserve

GMD:

Start Date:

1886

Description Level:

End Date:

1916

Date Range:

[Digitized 2005 (originally created 1886, 1914-1916)]

Image:

Physical Description:

30.2 MB of graphic material. - 4 photographs : b&w ; tiff

Notes:

Photographs include:

1) Mary Sweet Grass, 1915

2) Voiting on Union Government hay lease, 1916

3) Surface burial near the Belly River, 1915

4) First Anglican Mission House on the Blood Reserve, 1886

rec_shelfloc:

2010-042-001

Repository:

Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Photographs of students and staff at St. Paul's Anglican School

GMD:

Start Date:

1913

Description Level:

End Date:

1917

Date Range:

[Digitized 2005 (originally created 1913, 1915, 1917)]

Image:

Physical Description:

21 MB of graphic material. - 3 photographs : b&w ; (tiff)

Notes:

Photographs include:

1) Pupils of St. Paul's Anglican School, Blood Reserve, ca. 1913

2) Confirmation, St. Pauls, 1915. Benny Plume, Rev. Watkin Hones, Bishop Pinkham, Rev. SH. Middleton, Teddy Bullshield, and four St. Pauls pupils

3) Confirmation group at St. Paul's Anglican Mission, Blood Reserve, 1917

rec_shelfloc:

2010-042-001

Repository:

Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Photographs of boys at St. Paul's Mission

GMD:

Start Date:

1911

Description Level:

End Date:

1923

Date Range:

[Digitized 2005 (originally created 1911, 1915, 1923)]

Image:

Physical Description:

23 MB of graphic material. - 3 photographs : b&w ; (tiff)

Notes:

Photographs include:

1) Older boys at St. Paul's Anglican Mission, Blood Reserve, 1923

2) St. Paul's Anglican Mission football team at summer camp, 1915

3) Junior football team, St. Paul's Anglican Mission, Blood Reserve, 1911

rec_shelfloc:

2010-042-001

Repository:

Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Photographs of students, staff, and cadets at St. Paul's Mission

GMD:

Start Date:

1912

Description Level:

End Date:

1919

Date Range:

[Digitized 2005 (originally created 1912-1919)]

Image:

Physical Description:

36.2 MB of graphic material. - 4 photographs : b&w ; (tiff)

Notes:

Photographs include:

1) Picnic of students and staff of St. Paul's Anglican Mission, Blood Reserve, May 24, 1919

2) Congregation of St. Paul's Anglican Mission, Blood Reserve, June 14, 1912

3) Cadets from St. Paul's Anglican School, Blood Reserve, at Fort Macleod, 1916

4) St. Paul's Anglican School cadets, Blood Reserve, visiting the Peigan Reserve, ca. 1916

rec_shelfloc:

2010-042-001

Repository:

Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Photographs of cadets, clergy, and horse riders

GMD:

Start Date:

1913

Description Level:

End Date:

1918

Date Range:

[Digitzed 2005 (originally created 1913-1918)]

Image:

Physical Description:

45 MB of graphic material. - 5 photographs : b&w ; (tiff)

Notes:

Photographs include:

1) Army cadets at Sarcee Anglican Mission, Sarcee Reserve, 1913

2) Bridge on route to Waterton Lake, 1915

3) Riders at Oil City, near Waterton Lakes, 1918

4) Buildings at Oil City, near Waterton Lakes, 1918

5) Group of clergy

rec_shelfloc:

2010-042-001

Repository:

Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre

Accession No: