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Linda Many Guns fonds
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1.2 m of textual records
77 cassette tapes
49 photographs
8 optical discs
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Biographical history
Linda Many Guns is a Professor of Indigenous Studies, Arts & Sciences, at the University of Lethbridge, and has served as the Associate Vice-President of Indigenization and Decolonization at Mount Royal University and the Executive Director for the Nii Touii Knowledge and Learning Centre. Many Guns is a Blackfoot woman and elder, a member of the Buffalo Women's Society and the Beaver Bundle Society, and was born on the Tsuut'ina Nation. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from St. Thomas University, a Master's from Carleton University, a law degree from University of Ottawa, and a doctorate from Trent University.
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Fonds consists of materials from Dr. Linda Many Guns' research project, "The Ten Grandmothers Project" (initially called "The Ten Old Ladies Project"), based on Many Guns' interviews with traditional Blackfoot elders in southern Alberta and the United States. The research project was focused on the elders' teachings about the role of women in Blackfoot society and was carried out while Many Guns was Executive Director of the Nii Touii Knowledge and Learning Centre.
The fonds consists of one series containing audio recordings of the interviews, as well as transcripts, release forms, notes, correspondence, a draft manuscript of a book Many Guns intended to publish, drawings, fabric samples, and photographs. Also included are other audio recordings of Blackfoot language lessons, songs, and dances.
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Donated by Linda Many Guns in 2022.
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- English
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Audio recordings are in Blackfoot and English.
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The image attached to this description is a photo of a quilt that was created as part of the Ten Grandmothers project, and which features a quilting square for each Blackfoot elder that Many Guns interviewed, with an image and text representing her main teachings.
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Created September 8, 2022 by AP. Revised November 21, 2022 by AP.