at the FIRST NATIONS, FIRST THOUGHTS CONFERENCE

• Main Authors: Leslie Mccartney, Leslie J. Mccartney
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2005
• Subjects: Canada; Northwest Territories; Rat River; First Nations; Gwich’in
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.125.976; http://www.cst.ed.ac.uk/2005conference/papers/mccartney_paper.pdf

Two Issues Using the example of the story of Albert Johnson, the Mad Trapper of Rat River, this paper will discuss two related issues: the lack of recorded oral history by Canada’s First Nations in Canadian archives and once deposited into the archival holdings, the inadequacies of the current categ...