An Indigenous family standing on the platform of a train station in northern Ontario. Caption in album reads: "Indian family in northern Ontario." Caption on back of photo reads: "Indian family in northern Ontario; 8/42."
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.
Indigenous dancers at the "Doon Jamboree" at Brantford, Ontario in the 1950s. A crowd looks on, surrounding the dancers who are on a raised platform. Original archival description reads "Brantford Reserve Indians. Brantford, Ontario. Taken in 1950s. Hunsberger photo 17-10." Thus the dancers are probably Grand River Haudenosaunee (Six Nations). The man standing on the platform (third from left) is possibly Haudenosaunee chief Peter Sky.
Original archival description reads "Making chiefs on the Brantford Reserve. Mayor of Galt, Howie Meeker, Chief Sky of Brantford. Brantford, Ontario, during the 1950s. Hunsberger photo 17-11." This photograph appears to be taken at the same "Doon Jamboree" event as DH-648. Four men and a woman stand on a platform while a crowd looks on. The man on the far right, in traditional Indigenous dress, is possibly Haudenosaunee chief Peter Sky. Facing him are three men in western dress wearing Indigenous headdresses. A woman is adjusting the headdress of one of the men; he is possibly the hockey player and Member of Parliament Howie Meeker. One of the other men is probably the mayor of Galt, Ontario.
Group of children at Christmas time. The children of the Otto Hamms may be part of the group; this would mean this was at Cross Lake. It could also be at Pauingassi in the school house See CM 7-16-5; 7-16-7.
Negative also. Used in CM 8-21-5. Two Indigenous young men in front of a log house. One young man is sawing wood. Taken where MPM personnel worked? See arts. & photos re. MPM in CM 7-16-5 to 7-16-8. Smaller photo (9x6.5) also.
Indigenous woman standing beside a dwelling in an open, snow covered area. Walls are made with logs and various materials cover the roof. Caption in The Canadian Mennonite: "The Old: Housing conditions for many Indians are extremely unsatisfactory."
Henry Berg and several men are building the chapel. Building homes & schools was also part of MPM's work. See 14.4255 re. completed building & Otto Hamm's book, p.16 where this photo was used.
Dr. Rakko, the doctor for the Neuland Colony stands beside the ambulance which is parked beside his office building (see 2001-14.36). Two nurses stand on the other side of the vehicle as well as 2 patients: a woman with her arm in a cast and an Indigenous man in hosptial gown holding a child.The vehicle has been identified as a 1961 Mercedes Benz that was manufactured into an ambulance by the Binz Corporation in Lorch, Germany.
Caption in The Canadian Mennonite: "This plaque on the Fernheim memorial represents Christianity and the Bible, the Indian neighbors of the Mennonites, and the missionary obligation to these Paraguayan natives." Used in CM 3-28-3.
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.
