The Key First Nation Inquiry 1909 Surrender Claim

E-Books
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
Description
Presents background, issues, analysis (validity, compliance, membership, and the question of fiduciary obligations), and concludes with the recommendation that the surrender portion of IR 65 not be accepted for negotiation under the Specific Claims Policy. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
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The Key First Nation Inquiry 1909 Surrender Claim

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
Description
Final Report examines whether the claim of the Key Lake First Nations discloses a breach of Canada's "lawful obligations" to the First Nation under the Specific Claims Policy. Commissioners include: P. E. James Prentice, Carole T. Corcoran, and Roger J. Augustine. [These files were created and compiled by the ICC and provided to the Indigenous Studies Portal in 2009 to make widely available in online format.]
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A Key Pictograph from the Bloodvein River, Manitoba

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jack Steinbring
Douglas Elias
American Antiquity, vol. 33, no. 4, October 1968, pp. 499-501
Description
Recording of a large pictograph of a moose and concerns about rising waters obscuring rock paintings.
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Kidney Transplantation Outcomes in Canadian Aboriginals

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
C. L. C. Weber
D. N. Rush
J. R. Jeffery
M. Cheang
M. E. Karpinski
American Journal of Transplantation, vol. 6, no. 8, August 2006, pp. 1875-1881
Description
Examines kidney transplants between 1969 to 2003 in Manitoba. Findings indicate Aboriginal people were more likely to develop post transplant diabetes mellitus.
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[Kim Edwards Starving for the Human Rights of Children]

Alternate Title
At the Edge of Canada: Indigenous Research
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Kim Edwards
Robert-Falcon Ouellette
Description
Interview with a woman who is concerned about child and family services and wants the scope of the inquiry into the circumstances of the death of Phoenix Sinclair widened to allow a more in depth look. Duration: 29:16.
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Knowledge Synthesis: Aboriginal Workplace Integration in the North

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Heather Hall
Hayley Hesseln
Description
Project had three phases: initial scan of academic and grey literature dealing with training, education and workforce development programs, jurisdictional scan of government, industry, and Aboriginal-led programs in six case-study regions, and subsequent discussions with stakeholders about findings.
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Land Grants Under the Manitoba Act

Articles » General
Author/Creator
H.. Douglas Kemp
Transactions of the Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba, no. 9, Series 3, 1952-1953, p. [?]
Description
Chronology of the government's attempts to discharge their obligations to the Métis under the terms of the surrender of Rupert's land, specifically Section 31 of the Manitoba Act.
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Land Scrip as Neoliberal Aboriginal Governance: The Métis 'Trail of Tears'

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Mac Cassia
Description
Contends "that through the extreme and unique case presented by Métis resistance, the colonial Canadian state was (of desperation) forced to take extreme and unique measures." Social Sciences Bachelor's Diploma Thesis (B.A.)--University of the Fraser Valley, 2015.
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Language Attitudes, Perceptions and Identity: Some Haida and Cree Data

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Itesh Sachdev
David Hanlon
London Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 16, Continuities and Changing Realities: Meanings and Identities Among Canadas Aboriginal Peoples, 2000/2001, pp. 69-87
Description
Surveys adults and teenagers in Haida Gwaii, British Columbia and Cree from Fish River, Manitoba.
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A Language of Their Own

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Margaret Arnett MacLeod
Manitoba Pageant, vol. 9, no. 3, April 1964, p. [?]
Description
Brief article dealing with the Michif dialect.
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Language Use and Attitudes Among Fisher River Cree in Manitoba

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
I. Sachdev
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 22, no. 1, Creating Power in the Land of the Eagle, 1998, pp. 108-119
Description
Study supports language revitalization and suggests success requires wider community and government support as well.
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The Last Battle of Seven Oaks Puppet Play

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Elizabeth Phipps
Description

For use with article Last Battle of Seven Oaks, written by Heather Wright and illustrated by Celia Krampien found on p. 30 of the special issue "How Furs Built Canada" of Kayak: Canada’s History Magazine for Kids. Suitable for Grades 2-6.

 

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The Last Buffalo Hunter

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Heather Devine
Prairie Forum, vol. 21, no. 2, Fall, 1996, pp. 274-276
Description
Book review of: The Last Buffalo Hunter by Mary Weekes.
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The Last Quarter Century in Canadian Plains Archaeology

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Ian Dyck
Prairie Forum, vol. 22, no. 2, Fall, 2001, pp. 143-167
Description
Looks at changes that Canadian Plains archaeology has made including heritage legislation, Aboriginal involvement, expanded public interpretation and archaeological knowledge.
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The Late P.G. Laurie / Late Editor and Proprieter of The Battleford Herald. - [190-?].

Articles » General
Description
Typescript of biography of P.G. Laurie, publisher of the Saskatchewan Herald newspaper, the oldest newspaper in Saskatchewan established in 1878. Source unknown.

Historical note:

Patrick Gammie Laurie (b. 1833 - d. 1903) arrived in Fort Garry, MB in 1869 and took charge of the "Nor'Wester" newspaper, which reported on the Red River Resistance. In 1878 he left for Battleford, SK where he established the Herald. He remained there until his death in 1903. During the Rebellion of 1885 he alternated between military duties and the publication of his paper.
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Latent Tuberculosis Treatment Completion Rates from Prescription Drug Administrative Data

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Pierre J. Plourde
Christopher A. Basham
Shelley Derksen
Jennifer Schultz
Scott McCulloch ... [et al.]
Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 110, no. 6, December 2019, pp. 705-713
Description
Study of 4985 participants examine the socio-demographic and comorbidity characteristics associated with the completion of the pharmaceutical treatments for latent tuberculosis (TB) infection. Findings indicate that the factors associated with non-completion include older age and which drug/treatment period is prescribed.
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Law and Criminal Labels: The Case of the French Métis in Western Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mike Brogden
Critical Criminology, vol. 1, no. 2, Spring, 1990, pp. 13-32
Description
Contends that the labels used for economic, political, and social crimes depended on the type of conflict arising from interactions with various parties, and were motivated by political and economic power.
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Leadership Preferences of Indian and Non-Indian Athletes

Articles » General
Author/Creator
D.C. Malloy
R.N. Nilson
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 18, no. 1, 1991, pp. 33-42
Description

Looks at the different preferences in coaching methods and leadership between Indigenous and non-Indigenous athletes.  

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Leaving Ste. Madeleine: A Michif Account

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Olivia N. Sammons
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 33, no. 2, 2013, pp. 149-164
Description
Provides a first hand account of one family's forced relocation from a small Métis community in southwestern Manitoba. Text in both Michif and English.
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The Legend of Thanadelthur: Elders’ Oral History and Hudson’s Bay Company Journals + Thainaltth’er noriya hołts’į, Ëna chu Dene chu ëłehëla nį; Bëghą honį ëritł’is hëla (HBC), ąłnëdhë behonié tth’i łą sį

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rosalie Tsannie-Burseth
Northern Review, vol. 53, Indigenous Self-Determination through Mitho Pimachesowin: Perspectives from Northern Saskatchewan, 2022, pp. 101-112
Description

Examines Dene oral stories to discuss the impact of Thanadelthur to her community and the fur trade.  

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The Legend of the White Horse Plain

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Margaret Arnett MacLeod
Manitoba Pageant, vol. 3, no. 2, January 1958, p. [?]
Description
Legend concerning the place name of an area outside of Winnipeg.
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Legislative Assembly of Assiniboia: Activity and Resources

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Manitoba Metis Federation
Manitoba Government
[Louis Riel Institute?]
Description

Website contains links to game in which students make choices about what the Red River Settlement's people should do leading up to the creation of Manitoba; teacher resources; and other resources arranged by theme.

Related Material: From the Past Into the Future: Legislative Assembly of Assiniboia: Teacher’s Guide.

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Legislative Assembly of Assiniboia Debates: Comprising the period from the ninth of March, 1870 to the twenty-fourth of June, 1870

Alternate Title
Reconstituted Debates of the Legislative Assembly of Assiniboia, 1870
Documents & Presentations
Description

Synthesized from three sources: the journal of Thomas Bunn, the New Nation newspaper, and the Report of the Law Committee, written by Curtis James Bird. The Assembly was formed after the Convention of Forty.

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Let's Talk Treaty!

Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Loretta Ross
Treaty Relations Commission of Manitoba (TRCM)
Description
Series of 15-minute, biweekly radio programs aimed at general treaty education and hosted by the Manitoba Treaty Commissioner.
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Libraries’ Support Services for Indigenous Research & Scholarship at the University of Manitoba

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Lisa Hanson O’Hara
Janice Linton
Cody Fullerton
Description
As part of the Ithaca S+R report When Research is Relational researchers at the University of Manitoba interviewed Indigenous faculty from across a range of faculties regarding their research methods. Report summarizes interviews and makes suggestions for improving services and supports for Indigenous researchers.
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