The record in this collection relate to the Academic Freedom Committee. The files range in date from 1987 to 1998.
This collection was deposited with Archives and Special Collections in 1999.

This collection is comprised of two series of 45 computer floppy disks: Macintosh and Windows. These
disks belonged to Nick Russell. The disks, run on a Macintosh computer and/or on a Windows platform,
are included, several of the disks have files which are no longer able to be opened or printed, any files
which could be opened and printed were printed out, in several cases the files were printed from both the
Macintosh and Windows files (Disks 1, 4, 5, 11, 12). This collection of disks was in use between 1993
and 1997.

This open collection contains photocopied portions of transcripts from the Saskatchewan Legislature Debates and Proceedings dated 1975 to 1984 from the Saskatchewan Legislative Library. This material was used for research for Siggins’ A Canadian Tragedy JoAnn and Colin Thatcher: A Story of Love and Hate. The majority of the documents are sections of transcripts featuring W.C. Thatcher, the last folder contains material from the Speaker of the House.

The material is related to Siggins interviews for work on Bitter Embrace: White Society's Assault on the
Woodland Cree. The interviews took place in 2003-2004 when Maggie Siggins spent the winter in a
cabin near Pelican Narrows, Saskatchewan, a part of the Peter Ballantyne First Nation. These
interviews tell the incredible, often tragic, story of the Woodland Cree. Many are with elders, several of
whom have since passed away. Philip Ratt, for example, a truly remarkable man with a near-perfect
memory who recounted in detail his experience of residential schools and the elimination of the Cree
livelihood. He died just months after its publication.