- Alonsa
- Berens River
- Birch River
- Brandon
- Brochet
- Camperville
- Churchill
- Cranberry Portage
- Cross Lake
- Dauphin
- Deloraine
- Duck Bay
- Ebb and Flow
- Elkhorn
- Flin Flon
- Gimli
- Grand Rapids
- Lac Brochet
- Leaf Rapids
- Lorette
- Manigotagan
- Minnedosa
- Moose Lake
- Morden
- Norway House
- Oxford House
- Pigeon Lake
- Pine Falls
- Portage la Prairie
- Powerview
- Pukatawagan
- Selkirk
- Shamattawa
- Shoal Lake
- Skownan
- South Indian Lake
- Split Lake
- St. Boniface
- St. Francois Xavier
- St. Laurent
- St. Theresa Point
- Stonewall
- Swan River
- The Pas
- Thompson
- Traverse Bay
- Victoria Beach
- Virden
- Wabowden
- Winnipeg
- Woodridge
- York Factory
Manitoba Métis Federation v. Canada (Attorney General): Understanding the Supreme Court of Canada's Decision
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jean Teillet
Jason Madden
Description
Case involved lands promised in the Manitoba Act, 1870 and the contention that legislation enacted by Manitoba government, which affected implementation of the Act, was not within the province's jurisdiction.
Court issued this declaration: "“[t]hat the federal Crown failed to implement the land grant provision set out in s. 31 of the Manitoba Act, 1870 in accordance with the honour of the Crown.”
Manitoba Metis Join Prairie Coalition to Pursue Land Rights
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Joan Taillon
Windspeaker, vol. 19, no. 10, February 2002, p. 8,15
Description
Manitoba Métis President David Chartrand awaits a Court of Queen's Bench decision that will include issues related to scrip, Métis land and harvesting rights.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.8.
Manitoba Métis Road Allowance Communities
Alternate Title
1958 Survey of Métis Road Allowance Communities on Fringe of White Settlement
1958 Survey of Métis Communities along the Hudson’s Bay and Lynn Lake C.N.R. Lines
1958 Survey of Métis Road Allowance Communities on Fringe of Indian Reserves
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Lawrence Barkwell
Description
These communities were ones where the Métis lived on unused Municipal or Crown land or road allowances. They were characterized by poor housing and lack of collection of taxes and provision of government services. Information compiled from A Study of the Population of Indian Ancestry Living in Manitoba, under the direction of Jean H. Lagasse.
The Manitoba Mound Builders: The Making of an Archaeological Myth, 1857-1900
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gwen Rempel
Manitoba History, no. 28, Autumn, 1994, p. [?]
Description
Discusses Europeans' refusal to believe that sophisticated artificial mounds could have been constructed by the ancestors of contemporary aboriginals; author presents her alternate theories regarding builders.
Manitoba's Aboriginal Community: A 2001 to 2026 Population & Demographic Profile
Alternate Title
Manitoba Bureau of Statistics ; MBS 2005
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Manitoba Bureau of Statistics
Description
Based on contemporary patterns of fertility, mortality, interprovincial and intraprovincial migration. Three groups covered: Registered Indian, Métis (non-registered), and all other Aboriginals. Three regions covered: Winnipeg and the R.M. of Headingley, the North and the South.
Manitoba’s Aboriginal Justice Inquiry: 1988-1990
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Paul L. A. H. Chartrand
Aboriginal Law Bulletin, vol. 2, no. 42, February 1990, p. 7
Description
Expression of criticism about Canada's legal system especially two tragic events in Manitoba and the Canadian response being a public inquiry into the administration of justice with regard to Aboriginal peoples.
Manitoba's Demographic Challenge: Why Improving Aboriginal Education Outcomes is Vital for Economic Prosperity
Alternate Title
E-Brief (C.D. Howe Institute). Economic Growth and Innovation
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Colin Busby
Description
Argues that while Aboriginals constitute the source of most new additions to the workforce, their potential contributions will go unrealized because of the gap in educational attainment.
Manitoba's Hydro Employment Program For Native Northerners
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James B. Waldram
Native Studies Review, vol. 1, no. 2, 1985, pp. 47-56
Description
Article examines the components of the employment policy compared to past construction practices and gives recommendations for future success
Manitoba's Red River Settlement: Manuscript Sources for Economic and Demographic History
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Douglas Sprague
Roland Frye
Archivaria, no. 9, Winter, 1979-80, pp. 179-193
Description
Discusses Hudson's Bay Company's engagement (employment) registers, settler's accounts, census returns, and land registries and parish registers and genealogical affidavits, 1875.
Manitoba School Survey on Indigenous Languages Teaching: 2021 Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Indigenous Inclusion Directorate, Manitoba Education and Early Childhood Learning]
Description
Questions were asked about language programming, delivery and priority level, reasons for not having programming, and unfilled teaching positions.
Manitoba Traditional Foods Initiative Planning and Resource Development Project: A Traditional Foods Resource for Northern and First Nation Communities
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Food Matters Manitoba
Description
Resources available in this guide include: a template guide to developing a traditional food strategy, a list of traditional foods available in Manitoba, a list of barriers experienced that limit access to traditional foods, and results from a Sharing Our Food Stories session.
Manitoba Treaty Land Entitlement
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Patricia Sawchuk
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 1983, pp. 215-221
Description
Summary of recommendations by the Manitoba Treaty Land Entitlement Commission, 1983, relating to First Nations in Manitoba adhering to Treaty 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 10.
Manitowapow: Aboriginal Writings from the Land of Water
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Niigaanweweidam James Sinclair
Warren Cariou
Peguis
Description
Extract containing preface, introduction, first chapter Traditional Systems of Writing in Manitowapow, and transcripts of two letters written by Chief Peguis, one of the signatories to the Selkirk Treaty.
[Map of CMS Stations in the Canadian Northwest circa 1890]
Alternate Title
[Map of the Church Missionary Society Stations in the Canadian Northwest]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Church Missionary Society?]
Description
Shows locations of Church Missionary Society, Catholic and Methodist missions, and Northwest Mounted Police, army and Hudson's Bay Company posts.
Marvin Francis: An Inventory of His Papers at the University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Archives & Special Collections
Description
An inventory of Marvin Francis's papers, which are housed at the University of Manitoba Library, Archives & Special Collections. The collection includes: Plays, Poetry, Writings and Drafts, and a brief biography.
McDougall and the Métis
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Harry Shave
Manitoba Pageant, vol. 11, no. 3, Spring, 1966, p. [?]
Description
Describes the 1869 incident when Métis refused to allow to the future Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories to cross the border with the United States.
Meaning of Health: The Perspectives of Aboriginal Adults and Youth in a Northern Manitoba First Nations Community
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Corinne A. Isaak
Gail Marchessault
Canadian Journal of Diabetes, vol. 32, no. 2, June 2008, pp. 114-122
Description
Study suggests use of the Medicine Wheel to conceptualize health holistically may be an effective way to frame health promotion strategies for youth.
The Meaning of Respect: A First Nations Perspective
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Annette J. Browne
Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, vol. 27, no. 4, 1995, pp. 95-109
Description
Study explored the meaning of respect from the perspective of five Cree-Ojibway key informants during clinical interactions with Western health-care providers.
Measurement Equivalence of Osteoporosis-specific and General Quality-of-life Instruments in Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Women
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lisa M. Lix
Colleen Metge
William D. Leslie
Quality of Life Research, vol. 18, no. 5, June 2009, pp. 619-27
Description
Discusses a First Nations Bone Health study that looks at different types of measurement equivalence in two HRQOL instruments among Canadian Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal women from rural and urban sites in Manitoba.
Medical Survey of Nutrition among the Northern Manitoba Indians
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
P.E. Moore
H.D. Kruse
F.F. Tisdall
R.S.C. Corrigan
Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 54, no. 3, March 1946, pp. 223-233
Description
Study conducted by assessing records of purchases of staple food from the Hudson's Bay Company and physical examination of 400 individuals for diseases, concluded that malnutrition and vitamin deficiencies existed. Authors concluded characteristics of the "Indian race" such as"shiftlessness, indolence, improvidence and inertia" might be attributable to lack of suitable food.
Meeting at St. Boniface--Desire of the French to Retain the Troops
Archival » Archival Items
Native Studies Review, vol. 1, no. 2, 1985, pp. 99-100
Description
Minutes of the meeting containing four motions expressing confidence in Donald Smith, Member of Parliament and requesting that troops continue to be stationed at St. Boniface.
Les memoires de Louis Schmidt. 8 Juin 1911.
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Le Patriote
Louis Schmidt
Description
Louis Schmidt's memoirs and addendum provide an autobiographical account of his life, the plight of the Metis and their grievances, the causes of the Red River Resistance of 1869-1870, his secretarial responsibilities with Louis Riel, and the struggle leading to the establishment of Manitoba as a province. The memoirs were published in Le Patriote, no. 14, 8 Juin 1911.
Memorandum in Support of an Address to Her Majesty from the Inhabitants of Red River Settlement, Praying to be Formed Into A Crown Colony
Alternate Title
The Red River Settlement. Memorandum to His Grace, the Duke of Buckingham, Secretary of State for the Colonies
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Red River Settlement Inhabitants
Description
Reviews the history of the settlement as a means of arguing that it should be purchased by the government from the Hudson's Bay Company and therefore become a colony.
Memorandum on the Subject of the Public Lands in the Province of Manitoba
Archival » Archival Items
Author/Creator
[Government of Canada]
no. 1
Description
Concerns the survey and distribution of land to "half-breed" residents, and the rules governing the receipt and ownership of them.
Published in the Native Studies Review, vol.1, no.1, 1984.
Mennonite Missionary Henry Neufeld and Syncretism Among the Pauingassi Ojibwa, 1955-1970
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alvina Block
Journal of Mennonite Studies, vol. 19, 2001, pp. [47]-64
Description
Essay argues that Henry Neufeld did not expect the Ojibwa to reject all of their cultural traditions and religious practices when they accepted Christianity.
The Mental Health of Indigenous Peoples: Proceedings of the Advanced Study Institute The Mental Health of Indigenous Peoples McGill Summer Program in Social & Cultural Psychiatry and the Aboriginal Mental Health Research Team, May 29-May 31, 2000, Montreal Quebec
Alternate Title
Culture & Mental Health Research Unit Report ; no.10
Proceedings of the Advanced Study Institute The Mental Health of Indigenous Peoples
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Laurence J. Kirmayer
Gregory M. Brass
Caroline L. Tait
Ernest Hunter
Duncan Pedersen ... James Waldram ... [et al.]
Culture & Mental Health Research Unit Report
Description
Reviews research on mental health; presents social issues underlying problems and some individual and community responses to these challenges. Argues cultural psychiatry can contribute to rethinking services and heath promotion.