New Releases by Robert Calihoo Hunter

The history of indigenous political action in Canada is long, hard-fought, and little told. By the mid-1900s, Native peoples across western Canada were actively involved in their own political unions in a drive to be heard outside their own, often isolated, reserve communities. In Alberta, Johnny Callihoo and Metis leader Malcolm Norris founded the Indian Association of Alberta (IAA), which came to represent a large body of treaty Indian peoples across the province.

Collection contains copies of Hunter''s published articles and letters to the editor, correspondence, ephemera, and printed pamphlets from organizations he was involved with. Items from his life in Liverpool (bulk 1870''s-1880''s) include writings about English politics, income tax, London and Liverpool public affairs, free trade, public libraries and museums, church issues, and the International Arbitration Association. Items from California (bulk 1890''s-1920''s) continue these themes, as represented in articles in local Berkeley, Oakland, and San Francisco newspapers, and others. Letters written home and published in English papers compare life in Liverpool to his new life in California in detail, with prices, working conditions, jobs, etc. noted. Additional California topics present are "Boys Brigade" youth clubs, strikes, unemployment, the 1894 election, peace and the role of the church, temperance, prohibition, progressive tax reform, the single tax movement, etc. A small amount of family correspondence and items relating to his brother George (Burton?) Hunter are also present.