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[As It Happens: Missing and Murdered]

Alternate Title
As It Happens
[Missing and Murdered: Unsolved Cases of Indigenous Women and Girls]
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Carol Off
Jeff Douglas
Matthew Bushby
Radio program covers the stories of four women: Sarah Skunk, Shelly Tannis Dene, Maisy Marie Odjick, Claudette Priscilla Osborne.
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Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Secretariat Inc.

Web Sites » Organizations
Official site of AMC (Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs), includes information and links for stakeholders and potential stakeholders about child and family services, education, environment, gaming, policy, press, health, housing and more..
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Assignment: “The 1885 Rebellion”

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
W. Leland Carter
Manitoba Pageant, vol. 23, no. 2, Winter, 1978, p. [?]
Story of George Flinn, a newspaper reporter, who accompanied the soldiers sent to suppress the Métis resistance.
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The Assiniboines of Manitoba

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Christopher Vickers
Transactions of the Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba, no. 8, Series 3, 1951/52, p. [?]
Discusses the migration of the Assiniboine after the break with the Yanktonai Dakota.
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Atchakosuk: Ininewuk Stories of the Stars

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Wilfred Buck
First Nations Perspectives Journal, vol. 2, no. 1, 2009, pp. 71-83

Discusses Ininewuk (Cree) perspectives of astronomy, including mythology, stories and unique interpretations.

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Atiik Askii: Land of the Caribou - Building Community Partnerships for the Northwestern Manitoba Regional Tourism Strategy

Alternate Title
Atiik Askii: Land of the Caribou - A Best Practice Case Study in Community Tourism Development
E-Books
Author/Creator
Michael E. Kelly
Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
Case study of the Northwest Manitoba Regional Tourism Strategy, that looks at best practices in the strategic planning process on community tourism development.
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Averting Disaster: The Hudson's Bay Company and Smallpox in Western Canada During the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

Alternate Title
Averting Disaster: The Hudson's Bay Company and Smallpox in Western Canada During the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Paul Hackett
Bulletin of the History of Medicine, vol. 78, no. 3, 2004, pp. 575-609
Argues that Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) served as a de facto public health agency and by the late 1830s provided an effective vaccination campaign covering most of western Canada.
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Backgrounds of the Dialect Called Bungi

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Margaret Stobie
Transactions of the Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba, no. 24, Series 3, 1967-1968, p. [?]
Speculates on the origins of the word and the dialect, usually attributed to mixture of Gaelic and Cree.
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Battle of Seven Oaks

Articles » General
Canada's History, vol. 96, no. 3, June-July 2016, p. 13
Brief description of the battle, which took place in what is now West Kildonan, a suburb of Winnipeg on June 19, 1816.
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Battle of Seven Oaks: 1816

Alternate Title
Snapshots of 19th Century Canada Blackline Master #10A
[Critical Challenges across the Curriculum]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Critical Thinking Cooperative

The battle was a confrontation between the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company during the Pemmican War which was precipitated by a proclamation that no pemmican could be exported from the Red River Colony. The North West contingent was led by Cuthbert Grant and included a large number of Métis.

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Being Idle No More: The Women Behind the Movement

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Febna Caven
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 1, The Electronic Drum: Community Radios Role in Indigenous Language Revitalization, March 2013, p. [?]
Discusses the grassroots movement that is challenging the legislative onslaught upon Indigenous treaty rights, sovereignty, and the environment.
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Benefits of Cultural Matching in Foster Care

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jason D. Brown
Natalie George
Jennifer Sintzel
David St. Arnault
Children and Youth Services Review, vol. 31, no. 9, 2009, pp. 1019-1024
Results based on interviews with 61 foster parents in Manitoba to examine value-based and practical benefits of having a shared cultural background with foster children.
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Bernard Wheeler: Pioneer in Aboriginal Journalism

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
Canadian Dimension, vol. 39, no. 6, Nov/Dec 2005, p. 25
Brief biography of the late, distinguished journalist (1937-2005), giving praise for her commitment to her native land.
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Smoking Trends in a Manitoba First Nation

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Natalie D. Riediger
Virginia Lukianchuk
Lisa M. Lix
Lawrence Elliott
Sharon G. Bruce
Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 106, no. 4, May/June 2015, pp. 184-188
Estimates and compares smoking prevalence over two time periods: 2002/2003 and 2011/2012. Sample was 482 community members in first study and 596 in the second.
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Big Bear at Stony Mountain Penitentiary

Alternate Title
Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion
Images » Photographs
Image of Big Bear seated with four non-Aboriginal men standing behind him; outdoor scene. Caption: "When Big Bear surrendered at Carlton on 4 July 1885, he had been reduced to a shell of his former self, and his strategy for dealing with the Canadian government lay in total ruin." From the book Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion by Blair Stonechild and Bill Waiser.
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The Big Woman Befriends the Sioux

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Douglas Kemp
Manitoba Pageant, January 1957, p. [?]
Story of an encounter between some of Sitting Bull's people and the owner of a trading post which took place when the Sioux were fleeing the United States.
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