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This short article describes the development of the La Ponge Beauval Indian Residential School from it's origins as a missionary IRS to the changes it saw after 1979. The article describes the modernization of the school, the lives of students attending the school, and the future prospects for the school. This is a primary source and should be viewed as such - the views, opinions, and attitudes expressed within this source reflect the biases of its authors and society at the time.

"Described by the authors as a "Planning Report for Uranium City," this study was undertaken by a firm of planning consultants in an effort to coordinate post-1956 community expansion. Izumi and Arnott provide some background on the history of the Beaver lodge Lodge Development Area and further trace the exploitation of the uranium field from approximately 1946 to 1955. Their recommendations which include provisions for native housing, emphasize continued subdivision planning of the townsite area within a larger regional framework."

Excerpt from Author's Introduction, Page 11:

"The proposed Grasslands National Park consists of three small "core areas" situated along the International Boundary in southwestern Saskatchewan. Two of these are located in the Frenchman River valley, and one is found in the Rock Creek Badlands section of the Wood Mountain plateau. A total of 104.5 square miles of badlands, coulees and river valley are involved at the present time.

Excerpt from Author, Pages 100-101:

Thirty years elapsed between the time that the buffalo disappeared and the year that Foremost Man’s band took a reserve. One generation of these treaty Indians of the plains never experienced the close attention or paternalism of the Department of Indian Affairs. Unlike Indians on reserves, they travelled widely on the plains; they enjoyed considerable independence and were free to make their own decisions.