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An Inuit toddler stands at his or her mother's feet, posed to show a finely crafted caribou leather coat.

The graves of Eliza Simon and Edouard Simon, in the graveyard at Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories. Edouard's marker reads 'enfant de E. Simon et de Josephine Simon decede le sept novembre 1911 a l'age de deux ans'.

Two First Nations women, one of whom holds the hand of a toddler, pose next to a number of skins drying on racks at Fort Norman (now Norman Wells), Northwest Territories.

A First Nations women cares for her children within the family's tent at Fort Norman, Northwest Territories. A newborn baby sleeps in a makeshift hammock hanging from the roof support. This image is also represented among Miriam Green Ellis'…

The Mother Provincial, Sister Ste. Rose and two unnamed Sisters, pictured next to some of the First Nations children of the Catholic mission at Providence, Northwest Territories.

A group photo in front of the Catholic mission at Providence, Northwest Territories. The group includes the First Nations children resident at the mission, segregated by gender, and the priests and nuns running it.

A First Nations family, pictured in camp. Miriam Green Ellis' caption draws particular attention to the infant held in a red velvet moss bag.

Two Slavie First Nations women at Providence, Northwest Territories, the younger of whom carries a small child in a sling on her back. They may represent three generations of the same family. This image is also represented among Miriam Green Ellis'…

A group of Slavie First Nation women and children, pictured at Providence, Northwest Territories.

The boys' dormitory of the Catholic mission at Fort Resolution, Northwest Territories.