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 People Who Own Themselves": Recognition of Métis Identity in Canada: Report of the Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples
A 'Perfect Freedom': Red River as a Settler Society, 1810-1870
Persistent Settlers: The Dispersal and Resettlement of the Red River Métis, 1870-1885
The Place of the Metis within the Agricultural Economy of the Red River During the 1840's and the 1850's
Places Not Our Own
"Practical Results": the Riel Statue Controversy at the Manitoba Legislative Building
Prairie and Québec Métis Territoriality: Interstices Territoriales and the Cartography of In-Between Identity
The Priest Who Shaped a Province
Focuses on the role played by Abbe Noël-Joseph Ritchot during the events surrounding the Red River Resistance and the subsequent formation of the province of Manitoba.
Proclaiming the Gospel to the Indians and Métis
Prologue to the Red River Resistance: Pre-liminal Politics and the Triumph of Riel
Provisional Government of Assiniboia: Acknowledging the Contribution of Original North American Peoples to the Creation of Manitoba
The Question of Louis Riel’s Insanity
Racially "Indian", Legally "White": The Canadian State's Struggles to Categorize the Métis, 1850-1900
Reconsidering Confederation: Canada's Founding Debates, 1864 - 1999
See:
Chapter Two: Compact, Contract, Covenant: The Evolution of First Nations Treaty-Making by J.R. Miller.
Chapter Six: Resisting Canada’s Will: Manitoba’s Entry into Confederation by Robert Wardhaugh and Barry Ferguson.
Chapter Eleven: “A More Accurate Face on Canada to the World”: The Creation of Nunavut by P. Whitney Lackenbauer and Andr&ecaute Légaré.
Reconstituting the Fur Trade Community of the Assiniboine Basin, 1793 to 1812
The Red-Assiniboine Junction: A Land Use and Structural History, 1770-1980
The Red River Crucible
Red River Insurgence, 1869-70
The Red River Rebellion
The Red River Rebellion
The Red River Rebellion and J. S. Dennis, “Lieutenant and Conservator of the Peace”
Red River Resistance
The Red River Resistance of 1869-1870: The Machiavellian Moment of the Métis of Manitoba
Political Science Thesis (PhD) -- University of Ottawa, 2011.
Red River's Anglophone Community: The Conflicting Views of John Christian Schultz and Alexander Begg
Discusses how the two men's writings illustrate the two views points about the best option for Red River settlement's future: those who were in favour of annexation by Canada and those who felt that it would not be in the settlement's best interests since terms and conditions of it's future would be dictated by eastern Canadians.
Reflections of Yesterday & Today
The Reign of Terror against the Métis of Red River
Chronicles significant events in 1870-1873 after the Red River Expeditionary Force arrived in response the Resistance.
The Relationship of the Catholic Clergy to Métis Society in the Canadian North-West, 1845-1885: With Particular Reference to the South Saskatchewan District
Discusses five important missions: - Lac Ste-Anne, St-Albert, St-Laurent de Grandin, St-Antoine de Padoue (at Batoche) and St-Jean-Baptiste (at Ile à la Crosse).
Resources for Métis Researchers
Riel Country
Riel Family: Home and Lifestyle at St.-Vital, 1860-1910 = La Famille Riel: Résidence et Mode de Vie à St-Vital entre 1860 et 1910
Riel Finally Departs
Riel House National Historic Site of Canada
Riel's Red River Revolt: The Manitoba Saga
Riverlots and Scrip : Elements of Metis Aboriginal Rights
The Road to the Rapids: Nineteenth-Century Church and Society at St Andrew's Parish, Red River
Rooster Town: The History of an Urban Métis Community, 1901-1961
Rooster Town World: Remapping the Suburbs
Rooted in Mobility: Métis Buffalo-Hunting Brigades
The Scrip Solution: The North West Métis Scrip Policy, 1885--1887
"The Settlers' Grand Difficulty": Haying in the Economy of the Red River Settlement
Sidelights on the History of Assiniboia
The Skirmish at Seven Oaks
Discusses the Battle of Seven Oaks involving Cuthbert Grant, Governor Semple and Lord Selkirk.
A Snug Little Flock: The Social Origins of the Riel Resistance 1869-70
So You Should Know: Chi Ki Ken Da Mun
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.
A Socioeconomic Profile of the Red River Métis
Some Métis Communities in Western Canada
Histories of the communities of Lac La Biche, Alberta, St. Laurent and Ste. Madeleine, Manitoba and Willow Bunch, Saskatchewan.