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1885: Rebellion or Resistance?
Explains why the Metis prefer to use the word resistance to describe the conflicts labelled as the Red River Rebellion and North West Rebellion by the Canadian government and press.
Aboriginal Peoples and Postsecondary Education in Canada
Actor Donald Sutherland Featured in Five-Hour 'Riel Commission' - Press release. - 16 April 1985.
All My Relations (Identity and Indigeneity)
The Amazing Adventures of Christina and Nan: Christina Henry’s Trip Diary, “Northern Saskatchewan Holiday,” with Annotations by Duff Spafford, Nadine Charabin, Bonnie Wagner, Christine Charmbury, and Myrna Williams
Any Important Form: Louis Riel in Sculpture
At the Cultural and Religious Crossroads: Sara Riel and the Grey Nuns in the Canadian Northwest, 1848-1883
Beyond the Battlefield: Gabriel Dumont and Métis Leadership (1837-1885)
Biographies of Métis Community Leaders
The Birth of Western Canada: A History of the Riel Rebellions
The Buffalo Hunt
Canada and the Métis, 1869-1885
Canada. Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources
Changes Come to the Canadian Prairies
Focuses on the numbered treaties and their effect on First Nations and the Métis, and the causes and impacts of the North-West Resistance. Intended for Grade 10 Social Studies students.
Chapter from Horizons: Canada's Emerging Identity, 2nd Edition, by Michael Cranny.
Changing Times
Overview of Métis history from the 1840s to 1875. Discusses the collapse of the buffalo hunting economy, the establishment of the community of St. Laurent, passing of laws to establish order, and the arrival of the North West Mounted Police.
Includes questions for students.
Chapter 8: The Métis [Notes]
For use with chapter from the Grade 7 Social Studies textbook Voices and Visions: A Story of Canada.
The Commission of 1885 to the North-West Territories
Contrasting Worlds
Overview of Métis history from the 1600s to the early 1870s when many Métis migrated from Manitoba to Saskatchewan. Includes questions for students.
2nd edition.
Cores and Boundaries: Metis Historiography Across a Generation
The Diaries of Louis Riel
The Dispersal of the Métis
Dr. Russell's Carlton Trail
Dr. Russell's Water Transportation Prairie Provinces
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).
The Early Missions of the Swan River District, 1821-1869
An Episode of the North-West Rebellion 1885
The Ermatingers: A 19th Century Ojibwa-Canadian Family
The First Canadian Woman in the Northwest: The Story of Marie Anne Gaboury, Wife of John Baptiste Lajimonière, Arrived in the Northwest in 1807, and Died at St. Boniface at the Age of 96 Years
"Fleury, Patrice"
Fragmentation and Realignment: The Continuing Cycle of Métis and Non-Status Indian Political Organizations in Canada
The French Presence in the West, 1734-1874
The Fur Trade and Western Canadian Society 1670-1870
Gabriel Dumont
Gabriel Dumont : The Métis Chief and His Lost World
The Genealogy of the First Metis Nation: The Development and Dispersal of the Red River Settlement, 1820-1900
The Half-Breed "Rising" of 1875
Health of the Prairie Metis 1900-1960: An Examination of the Social Determinants of Health and Infectious Disease
Native Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Manitoba, 2021.
Histoire de Saint-Boniface, Tome I, À l'Ombre des Cathédrales: des Origines de la Colonie Jusqu'en 1870
History of Saskatchewan and the Old North West
A History of the McKay Family of St. Eustache, Manitoba, 1846 to the Present
General overview of Métis history, dispersion and employment patterns with special reference to the author's family.
The History of the North-West Rebellion of 1885
A History Of The Work Of The Reverend Henry Budd Conducted Under The Auspices Of The Church Missionary Society 1840-1875
[History?] Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba, 1972.
Hold High Your Heads: History of the Métis Nation in Western Canada
Homeland to Hinterland: The Changing Worlds of the Red River Metis in the Nineteenth Century
How the Fiddle Flows
Discusses how the fiddle and music relate to Metis history and culture. Narrated by Tantoo Cardinal. Duration: 48:03.
Indigenous Voices
James McKay (1828-1879): Métis Trader, Guide, Interpreter and MLA
Jemmy Jock Bird: Marginal Man on the Blackfoot Frontier
[John Franklin Boyd]
Notes and sketches from a trip taken by John Franklin Boyd in July and August, 1885, from Minnedosa, Manitoba to visit Prince Albert and the places involved in the North-West Rebellion.