1836 Mixed-Blood Census: Ottawas and Chippewas of Michigan, Treaty of March 28
Includes name, class, age, place and length of residence, blood quantum, decision of commissioner, amount rewarded, payee, and additional remarks.
Includes name, class, age, place and length of residence, blood quantum, decision of commissioner, amount rewarded, payee, and additional remarks.
A set of historical and bibliographical notes compiled by Dr. Russell on water transportation in what is today the prairie provinces. Includes information on the Northcote of 1885 Resistance fame. Also discusses the employment of Metis and First Nations men on riverboats, and gives prices at Gabriel's Crossing (Gabriel Dumont's ferry operation).
Content and language reflect the attitudes of the times.
Forms part of Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution ... for the Year 1879.
See pages 309-328.
File contains hand written and typed notes of historian George Shepherd, dated from 1937-1974. The notes include several pages on Aboriginal history in the North-West, that were scanned for this database. This includes a wide variety of material: from copy of a letter written by Louis Riel, to a list of the reserves in Saskatchewan in 1962 and their estimated landbase and populations.
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Collection of primary documents dealing with the conflict that
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