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Michel Dokis and family fonds [textual record (electronic)]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1850-1929.

Reference:

R13277-0-8-E

Type of material:

Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3964622

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Michel Dokis and family fonds
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Fonds includes:

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Date(s):

1850-1929.

Place of creation:

Ontario

Extent:

54,54 Go of textual records in TIFF format (127 Mo in JPEG format).

Language of material:

Ojibwa

Added language of material:

Ojibwa, English, French

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The fonds consists of a digital copy of an account book using a unique pictographic system (ca1861-1884) and documents associated with Michel Dokis and his family (about 55 documents - correspondence, notices and printed texts - covering the period ca1850-1929).

Documents created using Aboriginal pictographic recording systems are exceptionnaly rare.The development and use of such a writing system give Michel Dokis and his account book an outstanding importance. The letters, notices and printed items in the fonds are useful to document relations between the Dokis First Nation and Indian Affairs Department, as well as more general activities in the community.

Provenance:

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Dokis, Michel, 1818-1906

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Dokis, Michel, 1818-1906 : Michel Dokis (also known as L'Aigle) was a signatory of the Robinson-Huron Treaty of 1850. Life Chief since 1850, he remained at the head of his community until is death in 1906. Active throughout the second half of the nineteenth century, he operated several trading posts in the French River area. Michel Dokis was reputedly literate, and fluent in Ojibwa and French (he needed translators for the English language).

Finding aid no.:

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MSS2510

Finding aid:

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Textual record (Electronic) MSS2510 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf002/p000003228.pdf

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General note:

More information on Michel Dokis and on the Dokis First Nation can be found in :
LeBelle, Wayne F., Dokis : Since Time Immemorial, Field, Ont., WFL Communications, 2006; and in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. XIII, 1901-1910, under the name "Migisi".

Location of originals note:

The original documents are part of a private collection held by a member of the Dokis First Nation.

Language note:

Many documents are written in Objibwa language, some in English, and few in French.

Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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2010-00244-X
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Access restriction document

http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/r000000471.pdf

Textual records: electronic

[Consultation95 Open, no copying]
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Volume [R13277] 1--2

[Consultation 95 Open, no copying]

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Date modified:: 2024-06-04