Although Siksikaisitapi, Blackfoot people, did not sew pockets into their clothing, they did use personal bags and pouches to carry essential belongings.
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Follow along as Museum Educator Rebecca Wilde teaches us how to construct a model of the #yql's very own High-Level Bridge and explains the history of this extraordinary structure.
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Collections Technician Kevin MacLean explains why contemporary objects like CD Players are added into the Galt’s permanent collection as important pieces of history.
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Discover how pockets in women's fashions of the 20th century impacted women's interactions with public spaces, and why it's an ongoing challenge to find a good pocket in women's clothing.
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Mike Bruised Head, Chief Bird, discusses his ongoing effort to restore Niitsitapi, Blackfoot, names to mountains, coulees, and communities on traditional Blackfoot territory.
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What would visitors at both the modern-day replica and the original Fort Whoop-Up have seen and experienced during the holiday season?
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The Niitsitapi, or Blackfoot people, have been hit repeatedly by epidemics. Rebecca Many Grey Horses shares her research about the impact of smallpox, measles, scarlet fever and the Spanish flu.
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After being separated in Lethbridge in the 1960s, how did a jacket and its original owners make their separate ways to the same community in the US decades later? It’s a mystery.
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Join a small group of students as they participate in the Siksikaitsitapi: Blackfoot People’s Voices school program with Blanche Bruisedhead.
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Dr. Julie Young explains her research into refugee and immigration issues in Canada and abroad, tying in with the Refuge Canada exhibit on display at the Galt until January, 2021.
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Guest curator Ira Provost will explain the significance of his winter count and discuss his songs that are featured in the exhibit in this online presentation.
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Rebecca Many Grey Horses discusses the importance of several sites including Chief Mountain, Crowsnest peak, Devil's Thumb, the Sweetgrass Hills, Writing-on-Stone, Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, as well as the significance of medicine wheels and tepee rings.
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Collections Assistant Kirstan Schamuhn talks about how the Galt Museum & Archives collects objects and what the difference is between passive and active collecting, using a recent donation of buttons from Lethbridge Pridefest as an example.
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Rebecca Many Grey Horses discusses the traditional roles of Niitsitapi women, notable and exceptional women in Blackfoot history and contemporary women who are leading in their communities and in the world.
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In honour of the 100th anniversary of the end of Canada's first national internment operations during the First World War from 1914–1920, we are releasing a video presentation by Ben Weistra about the Internment Camp in Lethbridge, Alberta, focusing on William Perchaluk's tragic story.
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Rebecca Wilde has a conversation with Blanche Bruisedhead about traditional Blackfoot traditions, customs, language, and much more.
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Rebecca Many Grey Horses presents an overview of Indigenous history in southern Alberta.
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If you want other people to value your stuff, you have to put it at risk; if you can, put it into use so that the people visiting you in your home can associate it with you and they can associate themselves with it too.
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The Galt School of Nursing was a key part of the work to create and maintain a sustainable primary care facility in Lethbridge in the first half of the 1900s.
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Were you born in the Galt Hospital? What about your grandparents?
In 2010, Wendy Aitkens curated an exhibit about the history of the Galt Hospital, and we are now interviewing her about the content that she put together in that exhibit. In this video, Aitkens explains the construction of the different buildings that were part of the Galt Hospital from the late 1800s until 1955. From setting apart a "Sunbeam Ward" for children to treating polio patients in an iron lung, the Galt Hospital was the primary hospital in Lethbridge until the construction of the Municipal Hospital in 1955.
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