Here are detailed file-by-file descriptions of the contents of specific fonds and/or links to scanned documents.
 John Laurie, Honorary Stoney Chief, 1948
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| Series 1 | Textual records. - 1901-1963 |
| M-656-1 | General correspondence. - 1940-1944. - Related to Indian Association of Alberta affairs, primarily concerning improvement of conditions for First Nations. |
| M-656-2 | General correspondence. - 1945. - Related to Indian Association of Alberta affairs, primarily concerning improvement of conditions for First Nations. |
| M-656-3 | General correspondence. - 1946-1953. - Related to Indian Association of Alberta affairs, primarily concerning improvement of conditions for First Nations. |
| M-656-4 | General correspondence. - 1954-1956. - Related to Indian Association of Alberta affairs, primarily concerning improvement of conditions for First Nations. |
| M-656-5 | General correspondence. - 1957. - Related to Indian Association of Alberta affairs, primarily concerning improvement of conditions for First Nations. |
| M-656-6 | General correspondence. - 1958-1959, 1961. - Related to Indian Association of Alberta affairs, primarily concerning improvement of conditions for First Nations. |
| M-656-7 | Game conference correspondence. - 1950-1954. - Related to the management of wild game, including hunting and fishing rights for First Nations. |
| M-656-8 | Gladstone gift file. - 1958. - Contains correspondence, list of contributors and amount of contributions. |
| M-656-9 | Glenbow Foundation correspondence. - 1956-1959. - Contains information on linguistic research and expense statements. |
| M-656-10-11 | Indian Association of Alberta. - 1944-1959. - Reports, minutes, resolutions and petitions. |
| M-656-12 | Indian Association of Alberta. - 1952-1957. - Membership lists and sample membership card. |
| M-656-13 | Rough notes and drafts of speeches, resolutions, and scrip notes. - 1954-1957. |
| M-656-14 | Hobbema Case literature. - 1956-1957. - Written by Ruth Gorman. |
| M-656-15 | Reports. - 1951-1958. - Related to Indian affairs and the Anglican church; includes minutes from Friends of the Indians Society. |
| M-656-16 | Personal papers of John Laurie and legal papers of Indian Affairs. - 1901, 1910, 1928, 1940-1959, 1963. |
| M-656-17 | Indian Association of Alberta receipts. - 1947-1948, 1953- 1954. |
| M-656-18 | Stories by John Laurie published in
Canadian Cattleman. - 1950-1958. - Consists of: We Need Bread (April 1950) All's Fair (May 1950) The Indians Organize (June 1950) General Meeting 1950 (July 1950) Home on the Kootenay Plains (August 1950) The Hunter (September 1950) Three Tales from the Campfire (October 1950) In Honor Bound (November 1950) A Story of Kootenay Daring Related (December 1950) Death is a Woman (January 1951) The Magic Head (February 1951) I Have Eaten My Brothers Salt (March 1951) Tepees (April 1951) Ottawa Conference (May 1951) A Man's Medicine (June 1951) Napi and Buffalo-Taker (July 1951) General Meeting 1951 (August 1951) Winter Tales by the Campfire (September 1951) Ponokomita (October 1951) Kut-O'-Yis (November 1951) The Royal Visit, 1951 (December 1951) Keep the Lamps Burning (January 1952) More Adventures of Kutoyis (February 1952) The End of Kutoyis, The Blood Clot Boy (March 1952) "Social Welfare and the Treaty Indian" (April 1952) "Scarface" (May 1952) Mekaisto, Red Crow (June 1952) General Meeting 1952 (July 1952) Good and Faithful Servant (August 1952) Broken Vow (September 1952) More Things Than Dreamt Of (October 1952) First Raid (November 1952) Stop and Think! (December 1952) O'-da-wa-ta-be Umbah, Christmas (January 1953) Tribute to a Chief (February 1953) Allotments, Not for Us (March 1953) "The Five Friends" (April 1953) Indian Association to Hold Tenth Annual Meeting (June 1953) "One Came Back" (July 1953) General Meeting 1953 (August 1953) True Indian Tales (September 1953) Lost Million (October 1953) "The Gentle People" (November 1953) The New Year's Feast (January 1954) Eeyajaymuney, Lone Traveller (May 1954) Our Eleventh Annual Convention (July 1954) Wahi-am-ba Wah-gee-chee-be, Sundance (August 1954) Rainy Afternoon (October 1954) To Men of Good Will (December 1954) Moons or Months? (January 1955) Echoes of "Eighty-five" (February 1955) Bibeault and the Bonfire (March 1955) Dead Man's Slough (April 1955) Vow of Vengeance (July 1955) What can an Indian do with Indians? (September 1955) Wolf-Peeping-Over-The-Hill (October 1955) Ta-Tunga Mani, Chief Walking Buffalo (November 1955) And the Wise Men Brought Gifts (December 1955) Cheepoostequahn, Sharphead Chief (February 1956) The Cree Who Became a Stoney (May 1956) Napi Gives a Feast (January 1958) File includes Chief Walking Buffalo by Philip Godsel (1950) and a 1957 publication from The Alberta Council on Child and Family Welfare. |
| M-656-19 | History written by John Laurie, "The Indian Association of Alberta", Part I, pages 1-30. |
| M-656-20 | History written by John Laurie, "The Indian Association of Alberta", Part II, pages 31-60. |
| M-656-21 | History written by John Laurie, "The Indian Association of Alberta", Part III, pages 61-94. |
| M-656-22 | Stories by John Laurie and letters. - Consists
of: 116 Years Ago This Summer Family Lines Among the Stonies Copies of 1888 letters regarding stolen Indian horses and colts The Beaver Bundle Songs of the Sarcee The Hungry Years Truce Between Kootenays and Stoneys Art of Stonies Article on Proposed Changes in the Indian Act Death of a Nation, The Indian People New Year's Feast Bighorn Reserve Indian Association of Alberta Tenth Anniversary. |
| M-656-23 | Stories by John Laurie and others. - Consists
of: Indian Rights The Stoney Indians Say "No" Indian Association of Alberta "The Gentle People" Evolution of Indians Integration by Liquor? Indian Act Alterations Chieftainship Sioux Nation Ernest Thompson Seton (An Indian Bible) Tepees Indian Feast Beginnings at White Fish Lake by Rev. H.B. Steinhauer (1857) "Wipe out the Stain" (1922) Rights for Indians [missing, 1998] Social Revolutions; Indian Affairs Branch, Welfare Division Indian Education Division Oath of a Knight of Columbus. |
| M-656-24 | Fictional stories by John Laurie.- Consists
of: Making and Selling Fire is a Unique Profession Incident at Good Fish Lake I Have Eaten My Brother's Salt Natosi Shunga The Fixed Star Yellow Feather and the Chief's Daughter Boys First Raid Grandmother's Ghost Napi and Buffalo-Taker A Sioux Vision of the Christ. |
| M-656-25 | Biographies.
Some versions were published in Canadian Cattleman; refer M-656-18.
See M 4390 for other biographies. - Consists of: The Sarcee Ta-Tunga Mani, Chief Walking Buffalo Walking Buffalo Walking-on-Top The Case of Maggie (Crowchief) Nadeau The Case of Mrs. Pat Grasshopper Lone Traveller Mekaisto Steinhauer Frank Morigeau's Story Wolf-Peeping-Over-the-Hill Further Comments on St. Joe Dave Crowchild Chief Bearspaw The Case of Emma Jones John Chiniki Red Crow's Empire Showed Shrewdness Preface and Introduction of Techumseh The Stoney People Biography of John Laurie. |
| M-656-26 | Speeches. - 1944-1956. - Consists of: Appendix A, Relative to Indian Education in early 1940s Appendix B, Relative to Health of Indians Goodfish Lake Reserve Celebrates its Hundredth Anniversary Indian Association of Alberta Committee of Friends of the Indians Society Calgary Stampede Parade (1953) Goodfish Lake Pageant (July 24, 1955) Address to Knights of the Round Table, Calgary (February 21, 1956) Panel Discussion "Is the Reservation Best for the Indian?" (1956) Scrip, A Land Grab; Opening of the Stoney Reserve Community Hall Future of Canada's Indians, notes from a talk given by J.W. Pickersgill (March 28, 1956) Address with regard to the Indians of Alberta (February 1956) Rotary and Lions Club, Red Deer (February 27, 1956) Ruth Gorman Presentation To the Young People of Goodfish Lake Ottawa Conference (1953) Funeral of William Twin (1944) Address to Alberta Fish and Game Association (1955) Letter to John Bracken (July 9, 1944). |
| M-656-27-29 | Stoney studies. - [ca. 1957-1959]. - Consists of John Laurie's drafts and rough notes. - Not microfilmed. |
| M-656-30 | Stoney studies and notes on Indian Association of Alberta history. - [ca. 1957-1959]. - Consists of John Laurie's drafts and rough notes. - Not microfilmed. |
| M-656-31-32 | John Laurie's work notes of the Stoney language. [ca. 1957-1959]. For completed manuscript, see M 4390. - Not microfilmed. |
| M-656-33 | John Laurie's rough notes of Stoney vocabulary. - [ca. 1957-1959]. For completed manuscript, see M 4390. - Not microfilmed. |
| M-656-34 | John Laurie's rough notes of Stoney Studies for the Glenbow Foundation. - [ca. 1957-1959]. - Not microfilmed. |
| M-656-35 | Newsclippings. - 1954-1959. - Consists of newsclippings about the Hobbema Case. |
| M-656-36 | Newsclippings about Six Nations. - 1957-1959. |
| M-656-37 | General newsclippings of Indian activities. - 1948-1959. |
| M-656-38 | House of Commons Debates and Reports of
Special Committees. - 1935-1956. Relating to Indian Act and First Nations. - Consists
of:
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| M-656-39 | Trinity College, War Memorial Volume. - 1922. - Consists of John Laurie's college yearbook. - [Not microfilmed.] |
| M-656-40 | Diaries and telephone list. - 1951-1959. - Consists of: diary and memo-book [ca. 1951-1955]; diary (1958-1959); and telephone list. |
| M-4389 | John Laurie's work notes of the Stoney language. - [ca. 1957-1959]. - Consists of lists and notes regarding the Stoney language: sample vocabulary; terms of relationship; a list of words translated into Stoney; and Laurie's first report on the language. For completed manuscript, see M 4390. - Not microfilmed. |
| M-4390-Vol. 1 | The Stony [Stoney] Indians of
Alberta / by John Laurie. -
Calgary : Glenbow Foundation, 1957-1959. Volume I. - Consists of stories and legends relating
to the Stoney Indians. Many of the stories were published in Canadian Cattlemen.
Stories relate to: history of the Stonies in Alberta; the Stonies of long ago, family lines;
the supernatural in Stoney life; and Ink'tomi, Culture Hero and Trickster.
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| M-4390-Vol. 2 | The Stony [Stoney] Indians of Alberta / by John Laurie. - Calgary : Glenbow Foundation, 1957-1959. Volume II. - Consists of stories and legends relating to the Stoney Indians. Many of the stories were published in Canadian Cattlemen. Stories relate to: material culture; rites, ceremonies, and early religious beliefs; art; and family and social relationships. |
| M-4390-Vol. 3 | Dictionary of the Stony [Stoney] Language / by
John Laurie,
assisted by Ed. Hunter. - Calgary : Glenbow Foundation, 1959. View now. |
| M-4390-Vol. 4 | A Grammar of the Stony [Stoney]
Language / by John Laurie,
assisted by Ed. Hunter. - Calgary : Glenbow Foundation, 1959. View now. |
| Series 2 | Photographs and slides. - [ca. 1890s-1960] Many of the photographs have been scanned. |
| PA-65 | Portraits of Dr. Laurie. - 2 photographs |
| PA-206 | Buffalo round-up, Montana to Alberta. - 12 photographs |
| PA-1494 | Portraits of Dr. Laurie and plaque on Mount Laurie. - 1957 and 1960. - 5 photographs |
| PA-2268 | Views of Laurie's personal career; Stoney and other First Nations personalities and events; Indian Association of Alberta; sun dance; Banff Indian Days, etc. - [ca. 1941-1959]. - 181 photographs |
| PD-176 | Album of views of Indian Association of Alberta meetings and Indian personalities. - 1950s. - 44 photographs. - Note: This album has been missing since 1997. |
| NA-179-(1-2) | Indian Association of Alberta executives. - 1946 and 1950. - 2 photographs |
| NA-2554-(1-2) | John Laurie in his honorary doctorate robes, and wearing Stoney clothing including a feather headdress. - 1957. - 2 photographs |
| NA-4212-(1-140) | Views of First Nations, primarily Stoney, Indian Association of Alberta, restoration of the McDougall Church, Banff Indian Days, John Laurie, etc. - [ca. 1890s]-1958 and n.d. - 140 photographs |
| NB-36-(1-3) | George McLean (Walking Buffalo); Hector Crawler; and a Stoney sun dance camp. - [ca. 1950s]. - 3 photographs |
| S-72 | Views of mountain scenery, beaded jackets, etc. - [ca. 1950s]. - 18 slides |
| Series 3 | First Nations sound recordings. - 1956-1959. - All recordings are restricted and may be listened to only with permission from Glenbow's Ethnology staff. |
| RBT-1 | Stoney songs. - 1956. - 2 audio reels. -- Consists of an introduction by Ed Hunter. Program includes Owl Dance, War Dance, Sun Dance, Deer Dance, Round Dance, Tea Dance, Rainbow Dance, War song, and Love Song. The singers are Nat Hunter, Bill McLean, Mathew Hunter, and Albert Bearspaw. The speakers are Councillor Judas Hunter and Mr. John Hunter. |
| RBT-5 | Tsuu T'ina [formerly called Sarceee] Beaver Bundle and Peace Pipe Bundle songs. - 1958. - 1 audio reel. - Sung by David One Spot. Interpreter, David Crowchild. |
| RBT-6 | Blackfoot Big Smoke ceremoney recorded at Ben Calf Robe's house by CFCN. - April 14, 1959. - 5 audio reels. |
