of textual records, sound recordings, photographs and artifacts.
Linvill F. and Avra G. Watson were a husband and wife team of anthropologists
whose research and
academic interests often overlapped. Dr. Avra G. Watson was born in Lowell,
Mass. in 1922. She
earned a B.A. (1945) and an M.A. (1949) from Boston University. In 1976, she
completed her Ph.D.
in Anthropology from the University of Pittsburgh when she submitted the thesis
“Melanesian Cargo
Movements: A Developmental Analysis.” Her first appointment at the U of
S was in 1966 as a
Research Associate with the College of Commerce’s Canadian Centre for
Community Studies. From
1967 until 1970 she was an Assistant Professor (hired as a Cultural Anthropologist)
in the Department
of Educational Foundations. In the mid 1980s she was a sessional lecturer in
the Department of
Anthropology and Archaeology. Dr. Avra G. Watson’s academic interests
included social change and
movements, anthropology and education, women’s studies, Latin America,
urban anthropology and
Canadian society and culture.
Dr. Linvill F. Watson was born in Philadelphia in 1918. He attended the University
of Pennsylvania
earning an A.B. in 1938 and a Ph.D. in 1953 (dissertation: “Northern Ibo
Social Stratification and
Acculturation”). Dr. L.F. Watson held several academic positions before
joining the University of
Saskatchewan in 1966, including several years with both the University of Maryland
Overseas Program
and Lafayette College. At the University of Saskatchewan, he started in the
Department of Sociology
in 1966; was cross-appointed to the Department of Sociology and the Department
of Anthropology
and Archaeology from 1970 to 1980 (continuing as an Associate Member in Sociology
until 1982);
and remained in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology until his retirement
as a full
professor in 1986. His fields of expertise included African culture and the
Canadian North. He died in
Saskatoon in 1996.
This fonds contains personal, academic and research material related to the
interests and activities of
Linvill F. and Avra G. Watson.
This fonds has been arranged into five series. Only one file from the following
series is represented on
this site, but the section of the guide relating to research on Inuit and First
Nations people is displayed in
full.
Series III. Research
Subseries 5: Television Study
Subseries 6: Indians
Subseries 7: Metis
Subseries 8: Indians/Metis
Subseries 9: Communities
Subseries10: Northern resources
Series III. Research. - 1940-1990, predominant 1965-1975. - 5.72 m of textual
records,
photographs, and sound recordings.
This series consists of correspondence, research project proposals and grant
applications,
bibliographies and notes, published and published resources, maps, Northern
newspapers, news
clippings, questionnaires, minutes of meetings, financial records, drafts and
reports, photographs and
slides, and audio cassettes, including recordings of interviews, relating to
research in Indian and Metis
communities.
Series III, Subseries 5: Television Study
Reports and drafts
24-4 Institute of Northern Studies - Proposal re TV study. - 1974.
Original proposal relating to study (request for federal funding).
24-5 Television Among Inuit of Keewatin: The Rankin Inlet Experience. - 1977.
- 2
to 24-6 folders.
Copy of final report. See also Institute for Northern Studies fonds (file C.8.1).
Also available in Main Library, TK6658 .R21W3.
24-7 Grant application. - 1970-1973.
24-8 Pre TV study notes.
24-9 Notes for report. -1973. - nd. - 2 folders.
to 24-10
24-11 Interim report notes. - nd. - 2 folders.
to 24-12
24-13 Interim report and misc. notes and correspondence. - 1973.
24-14 Report revisions. - 1976. - 2 folders.
to 24-15
24-16 Report - draft. - nd.
24-17 Report - summary notes. - 1972-1976.
25-1 Report - sections I-IV. - 1977.
25-2 Report - appendices. - 1977.
25-3 Handwritten interim report with baseline data. - 1973.
Includes survey tally.
Notes, correspondence, etc.
25-4 Notes. - 1974.
25-5 Notebooks. - 1973-1974.
25-6 Misc. notes and correspondence. - 1973.
Also includes some administrative correspondence relating to the TV study.
25-7 Correspondence and notes. - 1973-1974.
25-8 Miscellaneous notes, etc. - 1973-1974. - 2 folders.
to 25-9
Questionnaires
25-10 Questionnaires - Miscellaneous - 1974.
25-11 Questionnaire - Churchill. - 1976.
Grade 6 - Duke of Marlborough School (control group).
25-12 Questionnaire - Rankin. - ca. 1975.
Notes re analysis (Grade 5 and 6?).
25-13 T.V. Questionnaire - Summer 1974.
25-14 Questionnaire - Rankin School. - nd.
25-15 Rankin - School Questionnaire - Grades IV to VI. - 1974.
25-16 Rankin - School Questionnaire - Grades VII to IX. - 1974
Interviews, etc.
Interviews, etc. - 1974. - 8 folders (18 audio cassettes).
25-17 - Jan 9, 1976 - Telephone conversation. Dr. L. Watson, Robert Nicholl
interviewed by Lyndsay Green. About TV study.
- SIDE A -- ca. 1976: telephone interview with Mr. Yates by Laura Evans. Re
[CAP?]: company selling Eskimo art. Discussion about AGM, Nov. 13;
change of company’s structure; etc.
SIDE B -- brief interview (excerpt?) with L.F. Watson (by Laura Evans)
about television in Rankin
25-18 - interviews re TV. Mostly in Inuktitut. Aug. 21, 1974. T. Atatsiak,
Suzanne
Unnguujaq, S. Aklunark. Interviews by Luke Issaluk. (one side only)
25-19 - interview re TV with Pauline Kolit. Interviewed by Bob Nichol (Noella
translating). Sat., 13 July 1974
25-20 - interview with Thomas Ugjuq, 14 July 1974
26-1 - tape labelled (Rankin:) Charlie Panigoniak fr. Esk. Pt. & ... Thurs.
10 May 73
- music
- Panigoniak and others (Country & Western songs in Inuktitut then Chez?
Issaluk. (Child talking)
- Aug 26, Charlie Panigoniak on CBQR with P. Cincer
- “Our North” Sat. 20 July 1974. (Panigoniak?)
- interviews 1. Pissuk; 2. John Okarlik (24 July 1974); 3. Tantngi (25 July
1974)
26-2 - 1. Interview with Bernadette Meekinoak, 23 July 1974 (LFW; Alex
Alikashank); 2. CBC radio, 8 Aug. 1974, Inukt.; Fri. 9 Aug TT accordian,
Amazing Grace; Side B: Taparti
[tape damaged]
- news highlights, Friendly Giant, Chan Clan (taped from CBC-TV)
- John Tiktak, Sat. 13 July; Our North, Inukt. program Sat. 10 Aug. 1974; Ch.
Panigoniak
26-3 - interview with Thomas Udjuk (interview by Bob Nichol and Mike
Mautantnanq)
- Rasmus Ungaq (Greenland singer) from TV program Our Land (Aug. 1974)
26-4 - tail end of “Ken Mason, CBC News, Rankin Inlet” [1973 “Rankin
... in for a
shock”] with voice of R.G. Williamson
- interview re television, unidentified
[blank except first bit]
26-5 Mary Amerok interview. - 1974.
Notes.
26-6 CBQR. - [ca. 1973-1974]. - 5 audio cassettes
Rankin radio.
26-7 Inuit Tapirisat of Canada special meeting. - 1973.
One audio cassette tape.
Resources, background material, etc.
26-8 Resources - Rankin - voters list. - 1973-1974.
26-9 Inuit Tapirisat of Canada. - 1976-1977. - 2 folders
to 26-10 Reports, newsletters, etc.
26-11 Rankin - maps. - nd.
26-12 Resources - maps. - nd.
26-13 Rankin - trip. - 1973-1974.
26-14 Resources - lists and maps. - 1972-1974.
26-15 TV schedule, notes, clippings. - [197-].
Resources - reports, articles, etc., by others
26-16 Arctic Institute of North America: Man in the North. - 1967.
27-1 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: Radio and Television in the Keewatin
District of
the Northwest Territories. - 1979.
... A Survey of Listening and Viewing Behaviour in Rankin Inlet, Baker Lake
and Eskimo Point.
27-2 Coldevin, Gary O. Developmental effects of television via satellite on
Canadian Inuit
Heads of Household. - 1977.
27-3 Coldevin, Gary O.: The Impact of Frontier Television on Canadian Eskimos.
- 1975.
27-4 CRTC. - 1973-1980.
Inuit television briefs and related correspondence. Briefs/evidence from
Northern Quebec Inuit Association, Inuit Tapirisat of Canada.
27-5 Dearing, A.G.: The Influence of Ethnic Stratification on Political And
Economic
Development in an Arctic Settlement. - 1974.
27-6 Department of Communications: Northern Social Communications - Pilot Project.
-
1973.
Annual report.
27-7 Department of Communications: Telecommission study.
27-8 Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development: MacKenzie Delta
research
reports. - 1968-1969.
27-9 Graburn, Nelson H.H.: Inuit pivalliajut: the Cultural and Identity Consequences
of the
Commercialization of Canadian Inuit Art. - 1975.
27-10 Granzberg, Gary: Coping with the Ideology of TV - A Cree Case. - 1979.
Draft submitted to Musk-Ox.
27-11 Granzberg, Gary and Jack Steinbring: Television and the Canadian Indian.
- 1980
... Impact and Meaning among Algonkians of Central Canada.
27-12 Halloron, J (ed.): The Effects of Television. - 1970.
With notes by Watson.
27-13 Institute of Northern Studies: Report re comminterphone. - 1972, 1973.
- 2
to 27-14 folders.
27-15 Kidd, J.W.: The Commercial Impact Upon Children. - 1975.
27-16 Kowalchuk, M.P.: The Eskimo Family and Kinship Stems. - nd.
27-17 McPhail, Thomas L.: The impact of broadcasting technologies on northern
native
communities in Canada. - 1975.
27-18 Media Anthropologist. - 1972-1973.
Newsletters.
28-1 Nichol, Bob: M.A. comprehensive exam. - 1975.
Includes M.A. thesis proposal re social impact of technical innovations. Nichol
was a research assistant for the TV study.
28-2 O’Connell, Sheldon J.: Television impact on Eskimo people of Canada.
- 1975.
U.S. Surgeon General’s Scientific Advisory Committee on Television and
Social
Behavior (technical report to committee): Television and social behavior. -
1972.
28-3 Vol. II.
28-4 Vol. IV.
28-5 Vol. V.
28-6 Various reports and publications. - 1973-1978.
28-7 Material from Inuit Resource Conference, 1973
28-8 Eskimo research. - 1968-1976.
Re television impact, etc.
28-9 Resources and notes. - 1968-1974.
Includes annual report of Inuit Tapirisat of Canada, publications by federal
Indian Affairs department, and misc. notes.
28-10 Resources - Saskatchewan. - 1958-1959.
29-1 Resources - Articles/papers. - 1972-1975. - 2 folders.
to 29-2. Regarding television and radio in the north.
29-3 Inuit Resources. - 1964-1971 - 4 folders.
to 29-6, Various publications.
Resources - Inuit language
29-7 Inuit language. - nd.
29-8 Eskimo Language school. - nd.
Two audio cassette tapes.
29-9 Lessons language Inuktitut. - 1973.
29-10 Lessons language phase I. - 1973.
29-11 Lessons language phase II. - 1973.
Resources - Northern newspapers and newsletters
Rankin Times. - 1972-1976. - 6 folders.
Some issues missing, especially in 1975.
29-12 Oct. 1972-Jan. 1973.
30-1 Mar./Apr. 1973-Aug. 1973.
30-2 Sept. 1973-Feb. 1974.
30-3 Mar.-Dec. 1974.
30-4 Jan. 1975-Mar. 1976.
30-5 duplicate issues.
30-6 Taiga Times. 1971-1973. - 3 folders.
to 30-8
30-9 Keewatin Echo. - 1973.
30-10 Inuit Monthly. - 1973-1974. - 2 folders.
to 30-11
Box 31
31-1 Inuit Today. - 1976-1977. - 2 folders.
to 31-2
Resources - miscellaneous
31-3 Resources - notes. - nd.
Papers (including one by R.G. Williamson), notes, notes re language.
Miscellaneous. - 1973-1976. - 3 folders.
31-4 Folder 1. - 1973-1974.
31-5 Folder 2. - 1973-1974.
31-6 Folder 3. - 1973-1976.
31-7 Resources - Panigoniak records. - nd.
Four 45 rpm CBC recordings.
31-8 Resources - comic. - nd.
Copy of Captain Alchohol.
Dissemination of the study - papers, conferences, etc.
31-9 Rankin report/paper. - 1978-1979.
Conference presentation and related correspondence. Includes paper re Indian
education, author not identified.
31-10 CBC. - 1973. - 1 audio cassette
CBC-TV report about TV study. National news, 30 May 1973.
31-11 Correspondence re conference presentation. - 1974-1975.
31-12 Correspondence and notes re TV symposium. - 1979.
31-13 “Television and its Early Effects Among Rankin Inlet Inuit”.
- 1980.
Article by L. Watson in Musk-Ox.
Series III, subseries 6: Indians
32-1 Minnesota. - nd., 1947.
18 postcards, notes and misc publications.
32-2 Cree. - nd., 1984.
32-3 Plains Cree. - 1961-1969.
32-4 Swampy Cree kinship. - nd.
32-5 Spoken Cree. - nd. - 2 folders.
to 32-6 By C. D. Ellis.
32-7 Haida. - 1967-1968.
32-8 Iroquois. - 1937, 1964-1965.
2 photographs, notes and misc. publications.
32-9 Ojibwa. - 1973.
“A Discussion on Ojibwa Religion” by J. McLeod.
32-10 Coast Salish. - 1959-1960.
32-11 Saulteaux. - 1971.
Thesis by E. Sawatsky.
32-12 Sioux. - 1944.
32-13 Alcohol. - 1970.
Notes.
32-14 Student comments on drinking. - nd.
Grade school.
32-15 Indian Affairs Branch. - 1958-1962.
Correspondence, lists and reports.
32-16 Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations - clippings. - 1960-1961.
33-1 Ghost dance. - nd.
33-2 Indian Act. - 1947, 1952.
33-3 Miscellaneous. - 1968-1984.
33-4 Miscellaneous papers. - 1964-1972.
33-5 James Waldram article. - 1984.
Reviewer’s report by L.F. Watson.
33-6 Articles. - 1961-1984. - 3 folders.
to 33-8
33-9 Peyote. - 1964.
33-10 Indian Magazine. - 1968-1969.
33-11 Miscellaneous publications. - 1944-1970. - 4 folders.
to 33-14.
33-15 Saskatchewan reservations. - 1964-1966.
33-16 Symposium. - 1967.
Series III, subseries 7: Metis
33-17 Conference proceedings. - 1946.
34-1 Miscellaneous. - 1965-1969.
34-2 Publications, notes, photos. - 1932-1968.
2 photographs.
34-3 Rebellion, etc. clippings. - 1961.
Series III, subseries 8: Indian/Metis
Field interviews - Cree, Metis, etc. - notes, tapes and resources
L.F. Watson did field interviews in 1965-1967: Saskatchewan Cree, Saulteaux
and
Chipewyan, Manitoba and Saskatchewan Cree; and 1968: British Columbia Haida.
34-4 Resources - Pelican Narrows. - nd.
Maps and notes.
34-5 Resources - Sandy Bay. - 1959-1961.
34-6 Resources - Community Planning. - 1960-1961.
34-7 Resources - Serl. - 1962.
34-8 Notebooks - Sandy Bay. - 1965, 1969.
34-9 Notes. - [ca. 1965-1969].
Interviews, etc. - 7 folders (21 audio cassettes). - 1969-1970.
34-10 - Raphael Bear (Cree?): 6-7 Aug 1969, Sandy Bay? Interview re genealogy
etc.
- Mrs. Raphael Bear: 13 Aug 1969 [last (story) FAST! ??]
[tape threaded wrong]
- Mrs. Marie Bear (wife of Raphael), 13 Aug [1969]
- Ms. Moise Bear, 16 Aug 1969, III-IV (Sandy Bay?)
- Joe Morin, Sandy Bay?, Fri. 15 Aug. 1969
Moise Bear Sr., Sat. 16 Aug (both sides)
- (Witigo) - Genealogies (Pelican Narrows) June 13 and 15, 1970
Folder includes notes on genealogies.
34-11 - Thomas Colomb (& Philip Morin) at Sandy Bay, 1969. (Both sides:
I-II)
- Thomas Colomb [of Pukatawagan] (with Philip Morin) (Both sides: III-IV)
- SIDE A: Sandy Bay. Frida Bear, Jane Morin, Flora-Jean Bear (2 songs);
Thomas Colomb (Pukatawagan), 10 Aug 1969.
SIDE B: Mrs. Thomas Colomb, Pukatagawan, 10 Aug 1969; Thomas Colomb
11 Aug 1969
- Sun. 24 Aug 1969, Pelican Narrows. Louisa Custer (nee McKenzie), John
Dorion
- Pelican Narrows. Solomon Custer
- Henri Dorin, June 5, 1970; Margaret Custer, nee Linkleter, June 6, 1970;
Margaret Custer, June 6, 1970 (dreams). Box labelled “Genealogies (LB),
Pelican N., Custer (etc.)”
[tape seems to be damaged]
34-12 - Pelican. John Dorion (II).
(Followed by conversation probably between Avra and Linvill Watson
re issues in anthropology and some of Avra’s research re indexes??)
- Side A: Mag. Dorion, Nancy Dorion (16), Ralph Dorion (17), May 24,
1970
Side B: Mag. Dorion, Horace Ratt, Philip Ratt, June 1, 1970
34-13 - Peter Linklater & Susan Custer (17), David Linklater (20) (son and
daughter)
- Peter Linklater, Marie Louise Linklater (22), Margaret Merasty (19), Sue
Linklater (17) (interp.), Dave Linklater (20).
- Side A: Peter Linklater, Mrs. P. Linklater (Susan interpret); (Music) Graham
Linklater (13); David Linklater; Susan; Clarice Custer 8 years (Tap dancing??)
Side B: Mr. and Mrs. Peter Linklater and Solomon Custer
(Tape jams according to annotation on box.)
34-14 - Sandy Pay: Philip Morin, 17 Aug 1969; Pelican Narrows: Mr. and Mrs.
John
Meretsy with Magloire Dorion, 21 Aug 1969
34-15 - Horace and Philip Ratt, June 1, 1970 (re Flin Flon); M.A. Welsh (June
4),
Andy McKinley (June 5), Henry Dorion (June 6)
35-1 - Genealogies: P. Narrows, S. Bay; Father Thibodot
- SIDE A: Alcohol [and traders]- Fr. Thibodot cont’d, June 1, 1970; L.
Bonneau, June 1, 1970
SIDE B: L. Bonneau, “Wake”, Impressions Sandy Bay, Genealogy (Pelican),
June 12-13, 1970
35-2 Grant application. - 1967.
35-3 Proposal/ Sask Indian and Metis. - 1969.
Re source book, conference.
35-4 AIM. - 1970.
35-5 Cumberland House. - 1960.
35-6 Friendship Centre. - 1967-1969.
35-7 Higher education. - 1966-1967.
35-8 Northern Saskatchewan. - 1963.
35-9 Conference on Indian and Metis. - 1959.
35-10 “The Fort Black Co-operative Store” - 1957.
35-11 Prince Albert clippings. - 1961.
35-12 Saskatchewan River Delta. - 1967.
35-13 Training program. - 1965-1967.
35-14 Photos. - nd.
11 black and white images by Frederick K. Detwiller of west coast natives and
their
art.
35-15 Photos. - nd, 1973.
2 black and white photos, 7 colour photos with negatives and 28 postcards. Primarily
the Canadian far north and west coast native art.
35-16 Slides. - nd.
21 slides : 7 x 7cm.
Interviews re Northwest rebellions. - nd. - 3 folders (5 audio reels : 1 7/8
ips)
Appear to be interviews primarily with Metis individuals alive during “the
rebellion.”
Some seem to include L.F. Watson, but the context of these interviews is unclear.
Many of the questions seem to focus on memories about Gabriel Dumont.
35-17 - Tony Ferguson (1 yr. old when rebellion started)
- Mme. F. then Mme. M, b. 1887 [to Tony Floris?]
35-18 - Ledoux (LFW)
- McNickle; Pilon (with Tony Ferguson). Label on reel indicates Ledoux
35-19 - A. Caron
35-20 Interview re Metis, National Indian Council, etc. - 1 audio reel : 3 3/4
ips
Interview/discussion in Prince Albert. L.F. Watson seems to be one of the participants,
but the participants are not identified. The interview subject is apparently
a native
leader/activist.
36-1 Review - Harris. - 1968.
36-2 Review - Bretton. - nd.
36-3 Strauss. - 1972.
36-4 Programs. - 1937-1952.
36-5 Amsterdam meeting. - 1956.
36-6 Boulder meeting. - 1970.
36-7 New Orleans meeting. - 1969.
36-8 New York trip. - 1965.
36-9 San Diego trip. - 1977.
36-10 San Francisco Meeting. - 1963.
36-11 Toledo meeting. - 1968.
36-12 Tucson meeting. - 1973.
36-13 Research in progress. - 1943.
36-14 Miscellaneous research notes. - 1935-1970 - 2 folders.
to 36-15.
Series III, subseries 9: Communities
Consists of information about various communities, and seems to include background
material
for various studies.
36-16 Batoche/Duck Lake. - 1966.
Appears to be background material and census research relating to Northwest
rebellion
interviews (see above, folders 35-16 to 35-19).
36-17 Buffalo Narrows. - 1960-1961.
36-18 Beauvel. - 1960.
36-19 Stanley Mission. - 1960.
36-20 Prince Albert. - 1960-1961.
36-21 Pelican Narrows. - 1961.
36-22 Deschambault. - 1960.
36-23 Village of La Ronge. - 1960-1961.
36-24 A.K. Davis work. - 1958.
Series III, subseries 10: Northern Resources
36-25 Churchill River Study. - 1975.
36-26 Institute of Northern Studies. - 1964-1969.
Includes correspondence re successful grant application to study Sun Dance (Plains
Cree).
36-27 Northern Saskatchewan. - 1956-1957.
36-28 Various briefs. - 1958-1959.
36-29 Miscellaneous reports. - 1947-1969.