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词条 Sarah Lavalley
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  1. Early life

  2. Community contributions

  3. Awards

  4. References

Sarah (née Aird) Lavalley (1895-1991) was a nurse, craftswoman, and community leader from Golden Lake Reserve. In addition to her social work, she is known for supporting cultural exchange between the Indigenous community that she was a part of and non-Indigenous people, as well as supporting cultural continuity through her teaching throughout her life.[1][2] Lavalley was also known as a skilled maker using traditional patterns and stitching techniques, making wearable crafts like moccasins and mittens for instance.[2]

Early life

Sarah Lavalley was born on April 28, 1895 on Golden Lake (Algonquins of Pikwakanagan First Nation) Reserve.[3] Lavalley attended a day school until grade nine on Golden Lake Reserve, and attended high school in Eganville.[3] Lavalley left school to support her family working as a household servant in Eganville and Ottawa.[3] Lavalley also helped her grandmother Annie Mitchell with midwifery from the age of fourteen.[3] This formative experience led to her completing some training at the Good Samaritan Catholic Hospital in Jersey City, New Jersey, at age nineteen.[3]

Sarah married James Lavalley in 1916.[4] On the occasion of their fiftieth wedding anniversary the couple received letters of congratulations from political figures including Governor General Georges Vanier, Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson, Agriculture Minister Joe Greene, and Senator Norman McLeod Paterson, revealing some of the high-profile relationships that Lavalley had established.[4] Other than a couple of brief periods spent in Ottawa and Timmins, Ontario, Sarah lived primarily on Golden Lake Reserve throughout her life.[3] She had eight children and forty-three grandchildren.[3]

Community contributions

Lavalley developed a reputation as a dedicated nurse at Golden Lake Reserve and Village, serving 600 villagers and 300 inhabitants on the reserve, addressing the inaccessibility of the nearest hospital.[5] Lavalley was president of the Golden Lake Branch of the Catholic Women’s League and the Golden Lake Homemaker’s Club, where she encouraged women from the community to meet and develop skills, particularly in Indigenous crafts.[5] Lavalley fostered cultural exchange when she taught Indigenous and non-Indigenous women craftwork and beadwork.[5] Lavalley’s work appeared regularly since the 1940s in the Indian Crafts Pavilion at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto, and was sold nationally, in United States, and in Europe.[5] She also led the Algonquin Crafts project, which provided an opportunity for makers on the reserve to sell their work.[5]

Later in her life, Sarah Lavalley acted as a consultant for linguistics research and was included in several publications, such as “Kinship Terms in Golden Lake Algonquin” by George F. Aubin,[6][7] and Restoring the Balance: First Nations Women, Community, and Culture edited by Gail Guthrie Valaskakis, Eric Guimond, and Madeleine Dion Stout.[8]

Awards

Sarah Lavalley was awarded the Ontario Order of Good Citizenship Medal in June 1980.[6] Lavalley became a member of the Order of Canada in 1981.[9] Shortly afterwards, Lavalley was awarded the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice medal by Pope John Paul II.[1][10] She was also one of the recipients of the Union of Ontario Indians[11] Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999.[12]

References

1. ^{{Cite journal|last=|first=|date=Winter 1981-82|title=Algonquin Woman Receives Pope's Medal|url=http://www.katericenter.com/INDIAN_RECORD/1981-1982.12%20INDIAN.RECORD.pdf|journal=Indian Record|volume=45|issue=1|pages=4|via=}}
2. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.nativetech.org/clothing/mittens/mittenexamples.html|title=NativeTech: Examples of Native American Mittens and Gloves|website=www.nativetech.org|access-date=2018-03-22}}
3. ^{{Cite journal|last=Burant|first=Jim|date=1981|title=A Biography of Sarah Lavalley|url=|journal=Biography|volume=|pages=1|via=}}
4. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/173018/the_ottawa_journal/|title=Golden Lake Couple Wed 50 Years Ago|last=|first=|date=September 3, 1966|work=The Ottawa Journal|access-date=March 19, 2018|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|page=23}}
5. ^{{Cite journal|last=Burant|first=Jim|date=1981|title=A Biography of Sarah Lavalley|url=|journal=Biography|volume=|pages=2|via=}}
6. ^{{Cite journal|last=Burant|first=Jim|date=1981|title=A Biography of Sarah Lavalley|url=|journal=Biography|volume=|pages=3|via=}}
7. ^{{Cite journal|last=Aubin|first=George F.|date=1998|title=Kinship Terms in Golden Lake Algonquin|url=https://ojs.library.carleton.ca/index.php/ALGQP/article/view/466/368|journal=Assumption College Dissertations|volume=|pages=18|via=}}
8. ^{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=80pWAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT362&lpg=PT362&dq=Sarah+Lavalley+Golden+Lake&source=bl&ots=9c5OG1YNtV&sig=ucC-rSFt9SB0FRuuowS1o017x4s&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwinnv2v5P3ZAhUB3mMKHVVgCwQ4ChDoAQg7MAQ#v=onepage&q=Sarah%20Lavalley%20Golden%20Lake&f=false|title=Restoring Balance: First Nations Women, Community, and Culture|last=|first=|publisher=University of Manitoba Press|year=2011|isbn=9780887554124|editor-last=Guthrie Valaskakis|editor-first=Gail|location=Winnipeg|pages=|editor-last2=Guimond|editor-first2=Eric|editor-last3=Dion Stout|editor-first3=Madeleine}}
9. ^{{Cite web|url=http://archive.gg.ca/honours/search-recherche/honours-desc.asp?lang=e&TypeID=orc&id=959|title=Order of Canada|last=Services|first=Government of Canada, Office of the Secretary to the Governor General, Information and Media|website=archive.gg.ca|access-date=2018-03-22}}
10. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/sgc-cms/histoires_de_chez_nous-community_memories/pm_v2.php?id=story_line&lg=English&fl=0&ex=00000789&sl=8211&pos=1&pf=1#48|title=Faces of Pikwàkanagàn|last=|first=|date=|website=www.virtualmuseum.ca|page=Section 47|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2018-03-22}}
11. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.anishinabek.ca/|title=Anishinabek Nation|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}
12. ^{{Cite news|url=http://data2.archives.ca/e/e448/e011183889.pdf|title=Ontario organization honors achievement|last=Avery|first=Roberta|date=August 1999|work=Windspeaker|access-date=March 19, 2018|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|page=11}}

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