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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 9: The Métis Rise Up
Focuses on the causes of the Métis Resistances and their implications for the province of Manitoba and Canada as a whole. Intended for use in Grade 7 Social Studies classes.
Chapter from Our Canada: Origins, Peoples, Perspectives by David Rees, Darrell Anderson Gerrits, and Gratien Allaire.
The French Half-Breeds of the Northwest
Content and language reflect the attitudes of the times.
Forms part of Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution ... for the Year 1879.
See pages 309-328.
How Did the Confederation of Manitoba Take Place?
For use with high school students. Excerpt from Shaping Canada: Our Histories from the Beginning to Present by Linda Connor, Brian Hull, and Connie Wyatt Anderson.
The Métis
Chapter 8 in Voices and Visions: A Story of Canada, a Grade 7 Social Studies textbook.
Metis Studies: The Development of a Field and New Directions
A New Nation: The Métis
Chapter 9 of People and Stories of Canada to 1867 by Michele Visser-Wikkerink and E. Leigh Syms. Recommended by Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth as a Manitoba Grade 5 Social Studies learning resource.
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 Pre-Selkirk Settlers of Old Assiniboia
Brief descriptions of leaders in the Red River Settlement such as Cuthbert Grant, Alexander Kennedy Isbister, William Kennedy, Louis Riel Senior and Junior, James McKay, etc.; based on the author's observations while living at Fort Garry in the summer of 1871.
Reporting Métis in Urban Centres on the 1996 Census
Argues that combining concepts of ethnic origin and Métis identity would provide a more complete picture of the population. Looks at statistics for Winnipeg, Edmonton, Calgary, and Vancouver.
Chapter five from Setting the Agenda for Change, vol. 1 which is also vol. 1 in the Aboriginal Policy Research series.
Originally presented at the Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, 2002.
Teacher Guide for A Gial Called ECHO: Learning about the History and Culture of the Métis Nation in Grades 6–8
Excerpt contains overview about teaching Indigenous topics, and lesson one on Métis culture.
Trouble at Red River
Recommended for Grade 10 Social Studies.
Chapter 8 from Flashback Canada by J. Bradley Cruxton and W. Doug Wilson.
Can be used in conjunction with Spy Mission: The Trouble at Red River.