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The 18th Century Western Cree and Their Neighbours: Identity and Territory
Adventures of a Surveyor in the Canadian Northwest, 1880-1883
Battle of Seven Oaks
Battle of Seven Oaks: 1816
The battle was a confrontation between the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company during the Pemmican War which was precipitated by a proclamation that no pemmican could be exported from the Red River Colony. The North West contingent was led by Cuthbert Grant and included a large number of Métis.
The Big Woman Befriends the Sioux
Butler’s “Great Lone Land”
The Canadian North-West: Its History and Its Troubles from the Early Day of the Fur-Trade to the Era of the Railway and the Settler: With Incidents of Travel in the Region, and the Narrative of Three Insurrections
Chapter 8: The Métis [Notes]
For use with chapter from the Grade 7 Social Studies textbook Voices and Visions: A Story of Canada.
Chapter 8: The Métis [Student Quiz]
For use with chapter from the Grade 7 Social Studies textbook Voices and Visions: A Story of Canada
Chapter XVII -- "The Hudson's Bay Company"
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.
Correspondence Relating to Disturbances at Red River, 1869-70
The Cypress Hills Massacre—A Century’s Retrospect
The Forks and the Battle of Seven Oaks in Manitoba History
Fur Loft Building
The Fur Trade and Western Canadian Society 1670-1870
A General Statement and Report Relative to the Disturbances in the Indian Territories of British North America for Inquiring into the Offences Committed in the Said Indian Territories ...
The Great Lone Land: A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America
Histoire abrégée de l'Ouest Canadien: Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta et Grand-Nord
History of Manitoba: From the Earliest Settlement to 1835 ... ; and From 1835 to the Admission of the Province into the Dominion
History of North Dakota
"with a new preface and postscript".
History of Saskatchewan and the Old North West
Homeland to Hinterland: The Changing Worlds of the Red River Metis in the Nineteenth Century
Jemmy Jock Bird: Marginal Man on the Blackfoot Frontier
Law and Criminal Labels: The Case of the French Métis in Western Canada
Louis Riel: A Bibliography
[Louis Riel's Part in Metis History and His Legacy in Canadian Culture]
Lower Fort Garry: A History of the Stone Fort
Manitoba: Its Infancy, Growth, and Present Condition
The Métis in the Canadian West, vol. 1
The Métis of the South Saskatchewan: [Vol. 1 Draft Manuscript]
Moose Lake and Its Neighbours: From Pre-Contact to 1821
Muskekowuck Athinuwick: Original People of the Great Swampy Land
Narrative Respecting the Destruction of the Earl of Selkirk's Settlement upon Red River, in the Year 1815
Native Chiefs and Famous Métis: Leadership and Bravery in the Canadian West
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.
Northwest Changes
Power point looks at how the conflict between the Hudson's Bay Company and the Northwest Company influenced events in the Red River Settlement which ultimately led to the Battle of Seven Oaks.
Norway House: A Brief History: From Its Beginnings to Treaty Adhesions in 1908
Old Fort Hills and Sioux Indians Crossing the Plains to Fort Carlton / Summer 1879. - Part I.
Historical note:
Our Land
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.
Red River Colony: A Chronicle of the Beginnings of Manitoba
Report of Trials in the Courts of Canada, Relative to the Destruction of the Earl of Selkirk's Settlement on the Red River; with Observations
Reviews
Rivalry in the Fur Trade, An Excerpt from Simpson's Athabasca Journal
A Selkirk Settlement Sourcebook
Compilation of primary sources.
Seven Oaks: An Account of the Affair of Seven Oaks; and a Report of Proceedings of the Gathering for the Unveiling of the “Seven Oaks Monument,” June 19th, 1891
Authors present two different viewpoints on the Battle. Bryce regards it as a massacre, while Bell adopts a more neutral stance.