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  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. The West Series
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. 1. Beginnings
  9. 2. Off to Work
  10. 3. The Indian Association of Alberta
  11. 4. With the Government
  12. 5. The Glenbow Foundation
  13. 6. Glenbow, Indians, and Me
  14. 7. Adjusting to Calgary
  15. 8. Glenbow-Alberta Institute
  16. 9. Changes
  17. 10. The Cameron Years
  18. 11. The Spirit Sang
  19. 12. Aftermath
  20. 13. Retirement?
  21. Notes
  22. Index
  23. Back Cover

NOTES

  • 1Interview with Lily Dempsey, 8 July 1978.
  • 2Ibid.
  • 3Ibid.
  • 4Ibid.
  • 5My nickname came as the result of some imaginative and convoluted gyrations with the English language. Somehow, my friends made the quantum leaps from Hugh, to Hughie, to Hugh-kie, to Kewkie, to Cucumber – and then shortened it to Cuke.
  • 6Letter, McKinnon to Dempsey, 25 June 1948. In author’s possession.
  • 7Edmonton Bulletin, 31 May 1950.
  • 8Ibid., 6 February 1950.
  • 9Ibid., 13 June 1950.
  • 10Postcard, Laurie to author, 14 June 1950. In author’s possession.
  • 11Letter, Joseph William Hyde to author, 22 January 1951. In author’s possession.
  • 12Letter, Jennie Wright to author, 16 January 1951.
  • 13Letter, Mrs. Alicia C. Humphries to author, 15 December 1950.
  • 14Edmonton Bulletin, 19 September 1950. In author’s possession.
  • 15Postcard, Laurie to author, 14 June 1950. In author’s possession.
  • 16Edmonton Bulletin, 16 September 1950.
  • 17Edmonton Bulletin, 20 January 1951.
  • 18Letter, C.M. Elliott to author, 14 February 1951. In author’s possession.
  • 19Letter, Mildred Tennant to author, 23 January 1951.
  • 20Undated letter, Jim Sherbaniuk to author.
  • 21Letter, 19 September 1952. In author’s possession.
  • 22“Alberta Government Acts to Fight Rabies Epidemic,” Within Our Borders, 1 November 1952.
  • 23Letter, 21 September 1952. In author’s possession.
  • 24Letter to Pauline, 9 March 1952.
  • 25“Percy Two Gun Paints from his Bed,” The Native Voice, 5:7 (July 1951): 16.
  • 26Interview with Iron, 24 December 1951. In author’s possession.
  • 27Letter, MacGregor to G. Rider Davis and others, 10 October 1952. Historical Society of Alberta Papers, M2059, file 10, Glenbow Archives, Calgary.
  • 28Idem., MacGregor to Edmonds, 4 June 1953.
  • 29Winter 1953: 65–72.
  • 30“Whiskey Forts of the Old West,” vol. 34 (1952): 29–32, and “Red Crow, White Man’s Friend,” vol. 35 (1953): 65–73.
  • 31“Star Child,” 7:2 (1953): 6–16.
  • 32“The Scarlet Trail,” vol. 34 (1951): 13–21.
  • 33“Social Dances of the Blood Indians of Alberta, Canada,” Journal of American Folklore, 69:271 (January–March 1956): 47–52.
  • 34Interview with Mrs. John Rabbit, 20 April 1952. In author’s possession.
  • 35Letter to Pauline, 9 July 1951.
  • 36Minutes of general meeting, IAA, 12–13 June 1952, p.1. Gladstone Papers, Glenbow Archives.
  • 37Calgary Herald, 13 June 1952
  • 38Letter to James Gladstone, 25 June 1952, Gladstone Papers.
  • 39Interview with Jack Black Horse, 22 October 1953. In author’s possession.
  • 40Letter from Jack Black Horse, 7 June. Year not indicated but likely 1955. In author’s possession.
  • 41Letter from Percy Plain Woman, 26 October 1955. In author’s possession.
  • 42Interview with Mrs. Jennie Duck Chief, 14 March 1957. In author’s possession.
  • 43Interview with Bobtail Chief, 28 March 1959. In author’s possession.
  • 44Interview with Charlie Pantherbone, 24 July 1954. In author’s possession.
  • 45Letter, 27 August 1954. In author’s possession.
  • 46Letter to Douglas Leechman, 4 January 1956.
  • 47Letter, 11 July 1955.
  • 48Memo, Dempsey to Herbert, 31 December 1956. Glenbow Archives Files.
  • 49Letter, Lamb to Herbert, 7 March 1957. Glenbow Archives Files.
  • 50Diary entry, 30 June 1960. All diary entries are from the author’s files.
  • 51Talk, “Archives in Review,” Staff Conference file, 1958. Glenbow Departmental Records.
  • 52Calgary Herald, 15 February 1988.
  • 53Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 46:6 (1956): 177–82.
  • 54Diary entry, 12 April 1960.
  • 55Diary entry, 23 August 1960.
  • 56Diary entry, 14 October 1960.
  • 57Letter, Nat Owl Child to author, 16 November 1961. In author’s possession.
  • 58Ben Calf Robe, Siksika’: A Blackfoot Legacy (Invermere, B.C.: Good Medicine Books, 1979), 46.
  • 59Ibid.
  • 60Letter, 9 July 1956.
  • 61University of Oklahoma Press, 1969.
  • 62Alberta Historical Review, 4:3 (Summer 1956): 31.
  • 63Alberta Historical Review, 7:2 (Spring 1959): 31.
  • 64Interview with Clarence McHugh by Hugh Dempsey, 5 March 1961. In author’s possession.
  • 65Diary entry for 25 June 1961.
  • 66Diary entry for 24 June 1961.
  • 67Diary entry for 22 June 1963.
  • 68Letter, Ralph Steinhauer to Hugh Dempsey, 23 May 1965. Indian Association of Alberta Papers, Glenbow Archives, M7811.
  • 69Cited in a report in Pauline Dempsey Papers, Glenbow Archives, M6854.
  • 70Diary entry for 4 March 1963.
  • 71Letter, Grace Johnson to “President and Members of our Society,” 4 November 1963. Copy in Pauline Dempsey Papers, Glenbow Archives, M6854.
  • 72Original petition in Pauline Dempsey Papers, Glenbow Archives, M6854.
  • 73Diary entry, 17 December 1965.
  • 74Diary entry for 10 January 1966.
  • 75Letter, Holowach to Harvie, 15 June 1964. Copy in “Glenbow Foundation” file, Dempsey Papers.
  • 76Memo to E.J. Slatter, 22 July 1964, Glenbow Archives.
  • 77Diary entry for 19 April 1966.
  • 78Letter, Wilder to McCloy, 19 September 1966. Copy in “Glenbow Foundation” file, Dempsey Papers.
  • 79Diary entry for 20 April 1967.
  • 80Diary entry for 8 December 1967.
  • 81Letter, Dempsey to Harvie, 25 February 1968. Copy in “Glenbow Foundation” file, Dempsey Papers.
  • 82Diary entry for 18 November 18, 1968.
  • 83Ibid.
  • 84“Memorandum re Glenbow-Alberta Institute,” undated document by N.C. McDermid, transmitted to Hugh Dempsey by his son, David McDermid, on 28 January 2000. Copy in “Glenbow Foundation” file, Dempsey Papers.
  • 85Ibid.
  • 86Letter, Mackid to McDermid, 30 July 1969. Original transmitted to Hugh Dempsey by his son, David McDermid, on 28 January 2000. Copy in “Glenbow Foundation” file, Dempsey Papers.
  • 87Letter, Harvie to McDermid, 6 October 1969. Original transmitted to Hugh Dempsey by his son, David McDermid, on 28 January 2000. Copy in “Glenbow Foundation” file, Dempsey Papers.
  • 88Ibid.
  • 89Ibid.
  • 90“Memorandum re Glenbow-Alberta Institute,” undated document by N.C. McDermid, transmitted to Hugh Dempsey by his son, David McDermid, on 28 January 2000. Copy in “Glenbow Foundation” file, Dempsey Papers.
  • 91Letter, Dick Gordon to James Mahaffy, 27 November 1969. Copy transmitted to Hugh Dempsey by N.D. McDermid’s son, David McDermid, on 28 January 2000. Copy in “Glenbow Foundation” file, Dempsey Papers.
  • 92Diary entry for 7 November 1969.
  • 93Diary entry for 25 November 1969.
  • 94Notebook, “Trip to the Arctic, 1968,” In author’s possession.
  • 95Interview with Albert Lightning at Hobbema, 23 August 1981. In author’s possession.
  • 96George W. Pocaterra, “Among the Nomadic Stoneys,” Alberta Historical Review 11:3 (Summer 1963): 12–19.
  • 97Sun Dance Echo, October 1964.
  • 98Calgary Albertan, 25 March 1975.
  • 99Photocopy in author’s possession.
  • 100“Notice,” 1 January 1976. Photocopy in author’s possession.
  • 101Diary entry, 31 January 1977.
  • 102Letter to the editor, Sheldon First Rider, Kainai News, January #2, 1978.
  • 103John C. Hellson and Morgan Gadd, Ethnobotany of the Blackfoot Indians. Ottawa: Canadian Ethnology Service, 1974.
  • 104Toronto Globe & Mail, 28 September 1981.
  • 105Ibid.
  • 106Diary entry for 26 October 1970.
  • 107Letter, Dempsey to Mrs. Harvie, 7 March 1975. Copy in author’s possession.
  • 108Memorandum, Dempsey to Hammond, 23 August 1971. Copy in author’s possession.
  • 109Ibid.
  • 110Memo, Dempsey to Hammond, 24 January 1973. Copy in author’s possession.
  • 111Diary entry, 31 December 1973.
  • 112Diary entry for 18 December 1975.
  • 113Calgary Albertan, 10 April 1972.
  • 114Alberta Historical Review, 17:4 (Autumn 1969): 29.
  • 115Letter, Dempsey to MLAs, 17 July 1969. Historical Society Files, Glenbow Archives.
  • 116Calgary Herald, 5 September 1969.
  • 117Cited in Alberta Historical Review, 17:4 (Autumn 1969): 29.
  • 118Calgary Herald, 5 September 1969.
  • 119Diary entry for 27 June 1978.
  • 120Ibid.
  • 121Ibid.
  • 122Diary entry for 22 May 1979.
  • 123Diary entry for 10 July 1977.
  • 124Letter, James H. Gray to Chairman and members of the Advisory Committee on the Heritage Learning Project, 27 January 1978. Copy in Dempsey files, Glenbow Archives.
  • 125Letter, Hugh Dempsey to the Advisory Committee, 16 July 1978. Dempsey files, Glenbow Archives.
  • 126Diary entry for 18 January 1970.
  • 127“Interview, Duncan Cameron,” Glenbow, Winter 1989, 12.
  • 128“Goals of the Glenbow,” approved 6 March 1980. Minutes, Board of Governors, Glenbow Administration files.
  • 129Kainai News, November #2, 1987.
  • 130Diary entry, 16 May 1978.
  • 131Interview with John Sokwapance, 17 August 1982. In author’s possession.
  • 132Letter, Alphonse Little Poplar to Hugh Dempsey, 18 April 1985. In author’s possession.
  • 133Letter, Mrs. Mary L. Ward to Alphonse Little Poplar, n.d. In author’s possession.
  • 134Interview with Joe Buller, 18 August 1982. In author’s possession.
  • 135Diary entry, 27 July 1980.
  • 136Diary entry, 1 December 1980.
  • 137Calgary Herald, 23 July 1983.
  • 138Red Deer Advocate, 3 August 1983.
  • 139Calgary Herald, 2 August 1985.
  • 140Diary entry, 5 August 1985.
  • 141Diary entry, 9 August 1985.
  • 142Diary entry, 4 January 1981. Dempsey papers.
  • 143Calgary Herald, 21 October 1981.
  • 144Catalogue, Metis: A Glenbow Museum Exhibition, 1985, 3
  • 145Press release, “Austrian Ambassador Misled by Alberta Officials,” 14 August 1944. http://www.nisto.com/cree/lubicon/1944/19940816.html.
  • 146Calgary Herald, 17 May 1986.
  • 147Ibid.
  • 148Calgary Herald, 15 September 1986.
  • 149Bruce Starlight in Kainai News, 4 March 1987.
  • 150Cited in Frances W. Kaye, Hiding the Audience (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2003), 162.
  • 151Calgary Herald, 15 September15, 1986.
  • 152Letter to John C. Ewers, 6 September 1987. In author’s possession.
  • 153Red Deer Advocate, 26 December 1986.
  • 154Duncan Cameron, “Message from the Director Emeritus,” Glenbow Museum Annual Report 1989, 9.
  • 155Diary entry, 11 August 1988.
  • 156Diary entry, 22 September 1988.
  • 157Diary entry, 1 November 1988.
  • 158Diary entries, 8 and 13 December 1988.
  • 159Patrick Tivy, Calgary Herald, 30 January 1898.
  • 160Letter to John C. Ewers, 6 July 1989. In author’s possession.
  • 161Glenbow Magazine, Summer 1989, 22.
  • 162Letter to John C. Ewers, 6 July 1989. Copy in author’s possession.
  • 163Letter to John Ewers, 17 April 1990. Copy in author’s possession.
  • 164Diary entry, 17 November 1990.
  • 165Letter from John C. Ewers, 19 September 1990. In author’s possession.
  • 166Letter from John C. Ewers, 28 October 1989. In author’s possession.
  • 167Letter to John C. Ewers, 5 January 1990. In author’s possession.
  • 168Letter to John C. Ewers, 24 February 1991. In author’s possession.
  • 169Letter to John Ewers, 15 October 1989. In author’s possession.
  • 170Calgary Herald, 21 March 1997.
  • 171Glenbow Museum Annual Report for 2004–2005.
  • 172Letter to the Editor from the executive of CUPE Local 1645, employees of the Glenbow Museum, History Now, April 2002, 9.
  • 173Memo, William Pearce, November 13, 1885. William Pearce Papers, University of Alberta Archives, MG 74-169, file 9/2/4-1.
  • 174Letter to John Ewers, 16 October 1995. In author’s possession.
  • 175Letter to Colin Taylor, 17 February 1996. In author’s possession.
  • 176Letter to Colin Taylor, 6 December 2002. In author’s possession.
  • 177Diary entry, 25 February 2003.

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