Major John Norton (Mohawk Chief Teyoninhokarawen)

"Portrait Of Major John Norton (Teyoninhokarawen). Historical paintings portraying Indigenous people are frequently loaded with harmful, colonial stereotypes. Major John Norton was a British colonial officer of mixed European and Cherokee heritage w...

Mi’kmaq hunter representation

A modern, more ethnographically accurate 1920 update of an earlier 1796 rendition of the hunting, fishing, and gathering tools of Acadians, or what could have been the Mi'kmaq people. ...

An inuit family, 1917

A photograph by George R. King of an Inuit family which demonstrates that the family unit was of utmost importance in their culture. ...

Anishnabek Birchbark Pipe

Pipes could be made from any material, including birchbark, wood and stone. Whatever the material, pipes helped to bring knowledge and peace of mind. This particular one is in the form of a miniature moose call. ...