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The SchoolNet Digital Collection team
- Dean Kidd - Supervisor and Team Leader
- Rosella Bone - Supervisor and Team Leader
- Crystal Bone - Finance and administration
- John Arnold - Website design and HTML programming
- Marc Dinson - Website design and HTML programming
- Ray Pearce - Digital Collection Assistant
- Roger Burns - Digital Collection Assistant
- Rachel Shingoose - Digital Collection Assistant
- Leslie Blackbird - Digital Collection Assistant
- Eric Blackbird - Digital Collection Assistant
- Jason Bone - Digital Collection Assistant
Additional Materials and Assistance provided by
- Tina Blackbird
- Tony Bone
- Shelley Myran
- Ralph Roulette
- Ryan Blackbird
Historical and genealogical research conducted under contract to Keeseekoowenin Ojibway First Nation by
- Las Cuatro Fletchas A.C./Four Arrows.
The Keeseekoowenin First Nation History Committee would especially like to thank Walter Archibald (Baldy) Scott for providing much of the historical information, photographs, and sharing his knowledge of the history of the Keeseekoowenin/Okanase people.
The Keeseekoowenin web site was compiled or contains material from a number of unpublished and already published sources. Variations in spelling and grammar are transcribed as they appear in the printed texts.
- Selwood, H. John, "The Hudson's Bay Company at Riding Mountain House", in Prairie and Northern Perspectives: Geographical Essays, edited by Selwood and John C. Lehr, Department of Geography, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, 1983.
- Richtik, J.M., "Settlement of the Riding Mountain Area: 1874-1895, in H. John Selwood and John C. Lehr, eds., Prairie and Northern Perspectives: Geographical Essays. Winnipeg: University of Winnipeg, 1989.
- William G. Hillman, "Strathclair: A Prairie Town with a Past, Present and Future," in Geography of Manitoba: Its Land and Its People, edited by John Welsted, John Everitt, and Christoph Stadel, University of Manitoba Press.
- Lord Elphinstone, "Visit to Western Canada 1879". The Edmonton Courant, 13 January 1880.
- Cowie, Isaac, The Company of Adventurers, a narrative of seven years in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company during 1867-1874, on the great buffalo plains; with historical and biographical notes and comments, Toronto, Briggs, 1913
- Gossen, N. Jaye, Indians of the Fort Ellice Region. March, 1876: Historic Resources Branch, Manitoba Department of Tourism.
- Ray, A.J., Indians in the Fur Trade. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1974.
- Butler, W.F., The Wild North Land, London 1881, 8th Edition. Has map showing Riding Mountain House.
- Wilson, Clifford, Campbell of the Yukon, Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1970.
- Atwood, M., ed., In Rupert's Land: Memoirs of Walter Traill, Toronto, McLelland and Stewart Ltd., 1970
- Morris, Alexander, Treaties of Canada with the Indians and the North-West Territories; including the negotiations on which they were based and other information relating thereto, Toronto: Belford, Clark & Co. 1880; Toronto, Coles Pub. Co., 1971
- Ringstrom, Emma. Riding Mountain Yesterday and Today. Winnipeg: Prairie Publishing Company, 1981.
- Centennial History Committee, Rural Municipality of Strathclair, Our Story to 1970 and Our Story to 1984.
- Human Intervention in the Clear Lake Basin of Riding Mountain National Park, Fishery by Rounds, Bazillion and Braun 1992.
- H. Y. Hind, Report of the Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition. Toronto: John Lovell, by Order of the Legislative Assembly, 1859
- Bowsfield, H., ed., "The Letters of Charles John Brydges, 1879-1882." Winnipeg, Hudson's Bay Record Society, 1977, and "The Letters of Charles John Bridges, 1883-1889." Winnipeg, HBRS, 1981.
- Holm, Gerald F., "Toponymy of Riding Mountain National Park", CANOMA, vol. 11, #1, July 1985
- Tabulenas, D.T., A Narrative Human History of Riding Mountain National Park and Area: Prehistory to 1980. Winnipeg: Parks Canada.
- Place Names of Manitoba (Ottawa, 1933),
- United Church Archives. 43-old#990, Hart to the Convenor, 6 February, 1882
- United Church Archives, 147-old#1364. Report of Hugh MacKay, Round Lake, Mar 17 1885
- Caldwell Papers, quoted by Alvina Block. Lauder to Caldwell, 29 August 1987
- Sessional Papers Nº14, 1899. Report of the Superintendent General of Indian Affairs for the year ending 30 June 1898,
- Association of Presbyterian Workers Among the Indians in the Synods of Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Minutes, correspondence, and miscellaneous records, 1909-1915
- Report of the Indian Affairs Branch of the Department of the Secretary of State for the Provinces, 1871
- HBCA B.239/K/3
- HBCA B.239/k/4, fo. 5d.
- HBCA B239/k/4/fo.73
- HBCA B.239/k/4, fo.25d.
- HBCA B.239/k/4/fo.85, fo. 95, fo. 105 and D.38/1 fo.50
- HBCA D.20/15/1 fo. 5
- HBC Archives for town of Elphinstone, J.S. Dennis Jr. Survey Plan, 1880
- HBCA Chipman, 21 Dec 1895.
- HBCA B.337/z/1. Riding Mountain, Miscellaneous Items, 1869. Requisition on York Factory for Sundry articles wanted at Fort Ellice for use and trade at Riding Mountain House Outfit 1869. Additional Requisition on York Factory for Sundry Articles wanted at Fort Ellice for Use & Trade at Riding Mountain House Outfit 1869, signed Fort Ellice 20 May 1869, William McKay. Walter J.S. Traill.
- PAC RG10 vol 9419, Treaty Pay Lists for 1876
- PAC RG10 vol. 3596, file 1258, "Memorandum of Articles Outside of the Treaty Nº1 which were promised at the Stone Fort 3 August 1871 to Chiefs and their counsellors" signed by Wemyss Simpson, Indian Commissioner
- PAC RG10 vol 3859, file 82,250-2, Wadsworth to Indian Commissioner, Regina, 5 September 1891
- PAM MG1 D9 #6 Christie, Alex
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