Jim Black interview

• Main Authors: Black, Jim, Wolfleg, Allan J.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Plains Research Centre 1974
• Subjects: Blackfoot Reserve > And CPR; Blackfoot Reserve > Land sale; Blackfoot Reserve > Trust fund; distribution of; Canadian Pacific Railway > Land agreements; Crimes and punishments > Adultery; Crimes and punishments > Murder; Indian Affairs; Department of > Indian agents; Land > Mineral rights; Land > Ownership; Concepts of; Land > Sale; Metis > And Treaty #7; Missionaries > Attitudes toward; North West Mounted Police > Attitudes to; Treaty #6; Treaty #7 > And Crowfoot; Treaty #7 > And the Metis; Treaty #7 > Payment of treaty money; Indian; Pacific; Metis
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10294/501

26 p. transcript of an interview with Jim Black, conducted by Allan J. Wolfleg on January 18, 1974. Tape number IH-AA.226, transcript disc 39. An interview discussing various topics: evidence given to the Office of Specific Claims and Research by Jim Black; signing of Treaty #7; an account of the CPR line being taken through Blackfoot Reserve territory; a description of two murders: Frank Skynner killed by Scrapings, and Charcoal's murder of Medicine Pipe Stem; the surrender of Blackfoot Reserve land; and an understanding of land rights. Other no