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The Significance of Creating First Nation Traditional Names Maps

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Andy Thomas
Florence Paynter
First Nations Perspectives Journal, vol. 3, no. 1, 2010, pp. 48-64
Looks at the Traditional Names Mapping Project with one goal being to educate the public of the five distinct language groups in Manitoba.
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Sioux Indians: Return to an Address to the Honourable the House of Commons, Dated 6 May 1864

Alternate Title
Parliamentary papers / Great Britain. Parliament (1859-1865). House of Commons
E-Books
Author/Creator
Great Britain
Colonial Office
Governor General of Canada
Correspondence between the commanding officers of the United States troops in Minnesota and the governor of the Hudson's Bay Company at Red River regarding the Sioux refugees in the British territory (which would become Canada).
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Situating Intergenerational Trauma in the Educational Journey

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rainey Gaywish
Elaine Mordoch
In Education, vol. 24, no. 2, Autumn, 2018, pp. 3-23
Study works from a position of trauma informed education principles to engage 16 Indigenous students, 10 instructors, and 9 administrators in semi-structured interviews; findings explore the participants’ perceptions of the relationship between Intergenerational Trauma (IGT) and educational experience. Considers potential strategies for improving outcomes by addressing the resulting issues of IGT.
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The Skirmish at Seven Oaks

Alternate Title
[Métis Historical Booklet Series]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Joanne Pelletier

Discusses the Battle of Seven Oaks involving Cuthbert Grant, Governor Semple and Lord Selkirk.

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So Much Left to Do: Status Report on the 62 Recommendations from the Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Office of the Children's Advocate Manitoba
Purpose of report is to provide update on the planning and activities undertaken by government that would indicate progress was being made in implementing each recommendation. Phoenix Sinclair was a five-year-old First Nations child who was beaten to death by her mother and her boyfriend. Inquiry specifically investigated whether the child welfare system had been negligent.
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So You Should Know: Chi Ki Ken Da Mun

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Linda North
Barb St. Goddard
Language arts resource covers topics including history before and after contact, customs and beliefs, education, the Métis, and current issues.
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Social Capital and Youth Suicide Risk Factors in First Nations Communities

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Javier Mignone
John O'Neil
Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 96, no. Supplement 1, Aboriginal Health Research and Policy: First Nations-University Collaboration in Manitoba, January-February 2005, pp. S51-S54
Examines contributing factors such as income, gender, education, community crime, pollution and the ways that people interact.
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Social Capital in First Nations Communities: Concept and Measurement

Alternate Title
Aboriginal Policy Research ; vol. 2
Aboriginal Policy Research Conference ; 1st, 2002
Setting the Agenda for Change ; vol. 2
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Javier Mignone
Janet Longclaws
John O'Neil
Cameron Mustard

Attempts to identify and measure social capital and its relationship to health determination. Chapter six from Setting the Agenda for Change, vol. 2, which is also vol. 2 in the Aboriginal Policy Research series. Originally presented at the Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, 2002.

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Social Enterprises in the Canadian West

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Peter R. Elson
Peter Hall
Sarah Leeson-Klym
Darcy Penner
Jill Andres
Canadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research, vol. 6, no. 1, Spring, 2015, pp. 83-103
Profiles three independent cases that reflect the diversity of social enterprise development.
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Social Support and Decision-Making: The Inuit in the Biomedical System

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jacques Grondin
Native Studies Review, vol. 5, no. 1, Native Health Research in Canada, 1989, p. 17–40
Discussion on Native patients' dependency on clinical encounters in the health service system as opposed to use of alternative methods with relation to medical evacuations and southern hospitalizations.
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Some Preliminary Considerations for a Métis-Catalan Comparison

Alternate Title
Some Preliminary Considerations for a Metis-Catalan Comparison
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gerald Stephen White
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 9, no. 2, 2021, pp. 75-95
Compares the similarities of the Metis and Catalan nationalism to identify how these two movements can learn from one another in their fights for nationhood within a larger state.
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Sovereignty and the Aboriginal Nations of Rupert’s Land

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kent McNeil
Manitoba History, no. 37, Spring/Summer, 1999, pp. 2-[?]
Discusses Indigenous rights in the context of the integral relationship between history and law; and British claims to sovereignty within Rupert's Land (Rupertsland).
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Speaking Michif in Four Métis Communities

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John C. Crawford
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 1983, pp. 47-55
Survey of the Michif language in communities in Manitoba and North Dakota indicates it developed before the westward movement of the Métis.
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Species at Risk Action Booklet for First Nations in Southwestern Manitoba

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources (CIER)

Presents a booklet of information about various at-risk species in southwestern Manitoba including: small white lady's slipper, red-headed woodpecker, monarch butterfly, northern leopard frog, and bigmouth buffalo.

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The Spirits of the Dead in Saulteaux Life and Thought

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
A. Irving Hallowell
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 70, no. 1, 1940, pp. 29-51
Focuses on beliefs about the afterlife and those who have visited the spirit (ghost) land.
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Sporting in Manitoba

Archival » Archival Items
Harper's Weekly
Collection of Dr. Peter Purdue, College of Education, University of Saskatchewan. Images include: Coursing an Antelope; (More Bear Stories) Look Before You Leap; Fish and Game Plentiful; and His First Experience of Pemmican. Published in Harper's Weekly, Supplement, July 7, 1877.
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Spy Mission: The Trouble at Red River

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Antony Caruso

Role playing game which involves John A. Macdonald asking students to become spies and send information back to the government. Suitable for Grades 5-11.

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St. Peter's Dynevor, The Original Indian Settlement of Western Canada

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Thomas Charles Boucher Boon
Transactions of the Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba, no. 9, 1952-53, p. [?]
Chronicles activities of the Church Missionary Society of London, England (CMS), which included the first attempt to establish a First Nation agricultural community in Western Canada.
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