What are the traditional ways of living of the Niitsitapi (Blackfoot) Fort Whoop-Up tells visitors about the history, culture and traditions of the Niitsitapi.
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The Crowsnest Pass was rife with bootleggers, but Lethbridge saw its fair share of the trade as well. The Lethbridge Herald published an article in April 1920 that captures some surprising risks associated with this illegal business.
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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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A century ago the micro neighbourhood of 6A Avenue South was neglected by the city authorities to the point that it provoked the local residents to take action.
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Anna MacLaren began her career as a waitress in the Lethbridge Ritz Café, but advocated and fought for worker’s rights, ultimately becoming the first woman elected to be President of a local chapter of a Trades and Labour Council in Canada.
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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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How did Lethbridge get onto printed tourist maps in the 1920s? It all had to do with the burgeoning past time of “motoring.”
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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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Learn about the effort in the early 1990s to save the plains bison and about locations sacred to the Niitsitapi people.
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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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Learn about the Old Sun Museum, the history of the Siksika Nation and about a blood rock band called Kinroq.
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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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Learn about the modern struggle for recognition of the Métis People and hear an interview with Everett Soop regarding his book "I See My Tribe is Still Behind Me"
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Learn about the history and the battle for recognition of the Métis people, the design and history of the tepee, and the origin and culture of the Kainai people.
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A performance by Buffy Sainte-Marie, discusses the changes to traditional ways of living among the Peigan people after the signing of Treaty 7 and more.
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Episode 4 of The Buffalo Journals explores indigenous winter survival techniques with Harold Healy, preserving traditional knowledge with Joe Crowshoe, Sundance societies and rituals, and much more.
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Take a look at this 1989 TV episode that explores the relationship between the Tsuut'ina Nation on the Sarcee Reserve and the nearby City of Calgary, and profiles of Pat Kennedy, Boye Ladd and more. %u
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Potai’na (Flying Chief), also known as Joseph Healy, was a prominent member of the Kainai Nation and son of Akai-nuspi (Many Braids) and Pi’aki (the Dancer).
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Discover the Bullhorn buffalo jump and an interview with nearby resident John Tallow; the Head-Smashed-In Interpretive Centre west of Fort Macleod, Alberta; a profile of Alvin Manitopiyes, a Cree Indian living and working in Calgary; and a review of the film “War Party.”
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