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Brantford Expositor, 31 Aug 1961     Article detailing some of the items found upon examination of trunks of items formerly belonging to Pauline Johnson and Evelyn Johnson. The items were being catalogued and prepared to be installed at

Brantford Expositor, 20 Nov 1961     This article discusses the need for architectural assessment of the Mohawk Chapel in preparation for the installation of new stained glass windows as well as a memorial. In addition, it was noted tha

Brantford Expositor, 24 Oct 1961     This article describes the unveiling of a plaque recognizing the mass Native burial discovered at the Taber Hill construction site in Scarborough, ON.

    "Dr. Gilbert C. Monture, a native of the Six Nations Reserve who has gained world recognition as a mining engineer and tin expert, was nominated for a top international post in London, England, today

    "The Post Office Department will issue this special five-cent stamp on March 10 to commemorate the strides made by Canada's Indian population and their contributions to the development of Canada. The

    "Miss Ontario, Dianne Smith of the Iroquois' Six Nations Indian Reserve near Brantford, talks with Mayor Buckwold during brief stop-over here Tuesday en route to Vancouver, where the band will join i

    "A slight solemn-faced dancer stamped and whirled at a recent powwaw, watched by curious Indians. The figure in woodland garb was evidently expert in Indian dances but he wasn't an Indian and many in

Campbell, Marjorie Freeman, The Globe, 25 Feb 1961, p. 11     "The Indian woman who stood facing the critical Toronto audience that evening in 1892 wore a necklace of bear claws and a handmade dress belted with wampum. She gave her name as Tekahionwake, but mos

    "Canadian Library Week Program, April 21st, 1961."

    "Are you going to Vancouver? That is the question everyone is asking each other since the Six Nations Indian Pageant Association announced The Pauline Johnson Pilgrimage to her cairn in Stanley Park,

    Program for the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of E. Pauline Johnson.

    Letters from Native Voice to Brantford Board of Trade regarding information about the commemoration of Pauline Johnson at Stanley Park in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Brantford Expositor, 1961     "Members of the Six Nations' E. Pauline Johnson pilgrimage to Vancouver returned home Saturday with memories of the Calgary Stampede on their heads."

Brantford Expositor, 12 Dec 1961     "Joseph Logan Sr., the oldest hereditary chief of the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy both in age and years as a chief, died Monday on the reservation."

    "Indians from the Six Nations Reserve, in colorful headdress, are seen attending a meeting of the York Pioneer and Historical Society in Toronto."

    "Chief Deskaheh of the Six Nations Indian Reserve at Brantford, Ont., receives an honorary citizenship from acting Mayor Dave Mulligan."

    "Dianne Smith, 22, arrived in Vancouver Wednesday with a group of Six Nations Indians from Ontario here to honor memory of poetess Pauline Johnson."

Brantford Expositor, 31 Aug 1961     Eight Trunks Give Up Treasures | Stored for Years-Soon to be Displayed The smell of yellowed silk and dusty leather hangs in a basement corridor of the post office building. Three members of the Chie

Brantford Expositor, 16 Oct 1961     "Indian poet Pauline Johnson, who had difficulty in having verse published while she lived, was subsequently 'chosen for immortality by the literary boosters of the 1920s,' a McMaster university assi

    Photograph of the Susan and Richard Johnson Family taken behind St. Johnson’s Church in 1961. The occasion was the memorial service for Edith Sargent. Edith Sargent was known as Edith Anderson before