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Pioneer Museum Society of Grande Prairie and District fonds
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Nelle Swallow with Indigenous people from Mistawasis Reserve

Image shows a group of Indigenous people from Mistawasis Reserve posing together with Nelle Inez Swallow (nee Martin), who was a teacher on the reserve in 1910. She moved to Grande Prairie in 1933 and died in 1966. The caption on the back of the photograph says “Indians from Mistawasis reserve in Saskatchewan near Leask – Indian in lower right had been in Duck Lake rebellion. Nelle Swallow at top left.”

Mission School at Peace River

Image shows Indigenous children standing near the open doors of the Peace River Mission School while two nuns are speaking to a man. There is a vehicle surrounded by several people on the far left of the image. The back of the postcard says “Mission School Peace River ‘let out’ so that staff and pupils could see their first automobile Dec 1913” Original description: “A group of aboriginal children outside the front door of the mission school at Peace River in 1913, are witnessing the first car to come to Peace River town.”

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