Negative also. Informal photo. Used in the CM 7-16-7. Henry Neufeld on a skidoo with his three young children. Taken near Pauingassi in northern Manitoba where they were missionaries. See the CM 7-16-6 & 7-16-8.
Negative also. Margaret Hamm and children stand in front of mission home with six Cross Lake children and Helen Willms. They began Sunday School Nov. 1956 when the Hamm family came to Cross Lake. See 14.4252 f., CM 7-16-6.
An Indigenous man stands in front of a log house in winter. Three children are also visible in the photograph. Perhaps this is a newly built home for a family. CM 7-16-7 has an article about Henry Neufeld's task of assisting people to build better houses. Probable location is Pauingassi, Manitoba. Negative also.
Used in CM 6-36-4. Margaret Reimer (left) & Katherine Friesen (right) push off in a canoe to cross the river. They were teaching summer Bible school here, possibly as a program of Mennonite Pioneer Mission. Wild rice growing; community members in background. C.f. CM 11-24-9 re. reserve.
Negative also. Used in CM "Indian Bulletin" April 22, 1969, p.19. "Compound" of the MPM at the Bloodvein Reserve. Houses of the MPM missionaries. Smaller photo also (18x12.5). C.f. CM 11-24-9.
Used in CM "Indian Bulletin" April 22, 1969, p.21. Johnny Yesno, an Ojibwe man, broadcasts over CBC Radio on the Saturday program "Indian Magazine," a "national forum for the opinions of Indians, Metis and Eskimos."
Negative also. Harry Cook, Chief of Bloodvein Indian River Band, with his wife and children. See CM 17-32-1 re. different photo of him & re-election as chief. He attended mission conferences in southern Manitoba. Smaller photo on contact sheet 14.4292.
Negative also. Used in CM 13-25-11. New Indian-Metis Center, Y.O.U. Edwin Brandt (right), director and pastoral counselor; Elsie Monkman (center?), registrar at open house; Mrs. Brandt. Sponsored by CMC, Mission Board.
Caption in CM: "This is not one house but several. By living in a united way Indians can keep their traditions through the centuries. They use mud and straw to build their houses. Their life in the highlands is difficult." Used in CM 6-41-4. Written on back of photograph: "Indians use mud and straw to build their houses. Life is very hard for the people living on the mountains and highland in Bolivia."
Caption in CM: "This is not one house but several. By living in a united way Indians can keep their traditions through the centuries. They use mud and straw to build their houses. Their life in the highlands is difficult." Used in 6-41-4.
A village on the mountain slopes of Bolivia's mountains. Written on back of photograph: "Roman Catholic churches stick out their steeples in the centre of Indian villages, but they are not the solution to the lost condition of men." Not found in CM.
Used in CM 6-39-4. Aaron Schmidt (left), pastor of the Terrace Gospel Chapel in B.C. stands beside George Auckland (center), Indigenous student at MEI, Gertrude Mitchell & Marilyn Auckland. See article for their story.
Negatives also (2). Used in the CM 7-20-1 to indicate that racial problems were prevalent in northern parts of the North American continent as well as in the South. The photo was taken near the international boundary.
Isaac Beaulieu, chair of the Manitoba Indian brotherhood, speaks to delegates at the Conference of Mennonites in Canada session in Saskatchewan. He told delegates that Indigenous peoples are offended by the word "missions." Cropped for use in the CM 17-28-1.