Video: 26 rare photographs of Indians living in Canada
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Photographer Alex Ross arrived in the Canadian city of Calgary in 1884, organized a photo studio there, which became popular in the area thanks to unusual photographs at that time - Alex managed to convince local Indians to pose for him, so even from other provinces of Canada came to see the collection of portraits.
Before moving to Alberta, Alex Ross (Alex Ross) lived and worked in Winnipeg, which is east along the US border. However, with the change of residence, Alex decided to change his whole life and started his own business - he opened his own photography studio, in which, in addition to quite ordinary orders, he embodied his own idea - to make a series of portraits of local Indians. These were the people of the Tsu T'ina tribe (at that time they were called Sarsi) and the Blackfoot.
Some of the photos were taken in open areas, but most were studio shots of the Indians wearing their national dress. Apart from this remarkable series of pictures, there is no data left about the photo studio. Apparently, in 1891 the photo studio closed, and Alex Ross died for three years, at that time he was only 43 years old. His project significantly outlived its author: pictures of the Indians can still be seen in the local museum.
The original name of the Sarsi tribe is Tsu T'ina, which means "people of the earth," and the shorter "sarsi" these people received "as a gift" from the Blackfoot tribe. "Sarsi" means "stupid, stubborn," - such pleasantries the tribes exchanged because of their claims to the same lands. In 1780, the Goba in the Sarsi tribe had 650 warriors, in the next century there were an average of about 200. Fortunately, this tribe managed to preserve its integrity and national identity, and today there are about two thousand Sarsi Indians in Canada.
We have already written about old pictures of Indians more than once, and even once published quite rare color photographs from the archive of filmmaker Paul Ratner … All these photographs were taken at about the same time - at the end of the 19th century, however, they represent warriors of different tribes.
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