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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
The Birth of Western Canada: A History of the Riel Rebellions
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.
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.
The Diaries of Louis Riel
An Episode of the North-West Rebellion 1885
The Fur Trade and Western Canadian Society 1670-1870
Gabriel Dumont : The Métis Chief and His Lost World
The Half-Breed "Rising" of 1875
Histoire abrégée de l'Ouest Canadien: Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta et Grand-Nord
History of Saskatchewan and the Old North West
The History of the North-West Rebellion of 1885
Homeland to Hinterland: The Changing Worlds of the Red River Metis in the Nineteenth Century
L' Insurrection du Nord-Ouest, 1885
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.
Law and Criminal Labels: The Case of the French Métis in Western Canada
Legal Ideology in the Aftermath of Rebellion: The Convicted First Nations Participants, 1885
The Life and Times of Louis Riel
Louis Riel (1844-1885)
Louis Riel: A Bibliography
Louis Riel: A Bibliography
Louis Riel: A Bibliography
Louis Riel: Changing Perceptions
Louis Riel : Firebrand
Louis Riel: Justice Must Be Done
Argues for a posthumous pardon of the Metis leader.
Louis Riel: Patriot and Rebel
Louis Riel: Patriot or Rebel?
[Louis Riel's Part in Metis History and His Legacy in Canadian Culture]
The Metis
The Métis
Chapter 8 in Voices and Visions: A Story of Canada, a Grade 7 Social Studies textbook.
Métis Elders and Veterans
Métis Killed During the 1885 Resistance
The Métis of the South Saskatchewan: [Vol. 1 Draft Manuscript]
Native Chiefs and Famous Métis: Leadership and Bravery in the Canadian West
The North-West Rebellion
North-West Rebellion 1885: Recollections, Reflections and Items from the Diary of Captain (now Lt. Col.) A. Hamlyn Todd who Commanded the Guards Company of Sharpshooters in that Expedition
The North-West Resistance of 1885
[Papers and Correspondence in Connection with Half-breed Claims and Other Matters Relating to the North-West Territories]
Pemmican Wars
Substantial excerpt from graphic novel about a Metis girl who finds herself transported back in time to the buffalo hunt, conflict between the Northwest Company and Hudson's Bay Company and the historic Battle of Seven Oaks. Suggested grade level 8-12.
The Queen vs. Louis Riel, Accused and Convicted of the Crime of High Treason: Report of Trial at Regina - Appeal to the Court of Queen's Bench Manitoba - Appeal to the Privy Council, England-Petition for Medical Examination of the Convict - List of Petitions for Commutation of Sentence
Of note: "The Prisoner's Address" by Louis Riel (begins on p. 147).
Reminiscences of the North-West Rebellions, with a Record of the Raising of Her Majesty's 100th Regiment in Canada, and a Chapter on Canadian Social & Political Life
Social 7, Ch. 8 Study Guide
Includes key definitions, questions and answers. For use with Chapter 8: The Metis from the textbook Voices and Visions: A Story of Canada.