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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.
Any Important Form: Louis Riel in Sculpture
Assignment: “The 1885 Rebellion”
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)
Bibliographie: Louis Riel c. Canada: les années rebelles
Most references published in English.
Bibliography from Louis Riel c. Canada: les années rebelles.
Big Bear at Stony Mountain Penitentiary
The Birth of Western Canada: A History of the Riel Rebellions
Book Review
Canada and the Métis, 1869-1885
Canada. Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources
"Canon T. Clarke a Veteran of the West--In 50 Years Has Seen the West Transformed."
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.
Chapter XX -- "The Rebellion of 1885"
Chapter XXII -- "The Battleford Column"
Chief One Arrows Spirit Returns Home to People
The Diaries of Louis Riel
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 Enigma of Louis David Riel
An Episode of the North-West Rebellion 1885
“Eskimo” Immigrants and Colonial Soldiers: Icelandic Immigrants and the North-West Resistance, 1885.
F. Beverley Robertson: The Tragic Life of Poundmaker's Defence Counsel
The False Traitor: Louis Riel in Canadian Literature
"Fleury, Patrice"
Gabriel Dumont
Gabriel Dumont : The Métis Chief and His Lost World
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
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
L' Insurrection du Nord-Ouest, 1885
[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.
Land Scrip as Neoliberal Aboriginal Governance: The Métis 'Trail of Tears'
The Last Buffalo Hunter
The Late P.G. Laurie / Late Editor and Proprieter of The Battleford Herald. - [190-?].
Historical note:
Patrick Gammie Laurie (b. 1833 - d. 1903) arrived in Fort Garry, MB in 1869 and took charge of the "Nor'Wester" newspaper, which reported on the Red River Resistance. In 1878 he left for Battleford, SK where he established the Herald. He remained there until his death in 1903. During the Rebellion of 1885 he alternated between military duties and the publication of his paper.