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Aboriginal Employment, Housing, Education, and the Law
Aboriginal Peoples and Postsecondary Education in Canada
Aboriginal Relations: Year End Review & Looking Ahead, 2012 & 2013
Across the Road: Understanding the Differences in Health Services Available to First Nations and Metis Women
Adams, Dr. Howard
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Almighty Voice
At Devil Lake
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Narcisse-Omer Cote (1859-1944) a civil servant for the Government of Canada, entered the department of the interior in 1879. In 1885, he was appointed secretary to the Royal Commission investigating and adjudicating Metis claims. In 1900 he became a Commissioner of the North-West Half-Breed Commission. The Commission was to enumerate and issue scrip to the Metis who qualified in the district of Saskatchewan and a small part of Manitoba. Their work lasted from May 16 to December 6 1900.At Snake Plains (Men Posing in front of tent)
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At Snake Plains (picnic)
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Narcisse-Omer Cote (1859-1944) a civil servant for the Government of Canada, entered the department of the interior in 1879. In 1885, he was appointed secretary to the Royal Commission investigating and adjudicating Metis claims. In 1900 he became a Commissioner of the North-West Half-Breed Commission. The Commission was to enumerate and issue scrip to the Metis who qualified in the district of Saskatchewan and a small part of Manitoba. Their work lasted from May 16 to December 6 1900.Batoche Cairn Dedication Ceremony, mid 1920s
Battleford and Medicine Hat - Newspaper clipping - 9 May 1885.
Battleford during the Rebellion of 1885
Battleford Hangings
The Battleford Post - Pamphlet. - 1949.
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Fort Battleford, built in 1876 and in use until 1924, was the sixth Northwest Mounted Police fort to be established in the Northwest Territories of Canada, and played a central role in the events of the Northwest Resistance of 1885.Battleford Remembers Stockade Days
"Beatty, Reginald Bird-Diary & Correspondence"
Big Bear
Big Bear at Stony Mountain Penitentiary
The Birth of Western Canada: A History of the Riel Rebellions
Canada and the Métis, 1869-1885
Canada. Department of Indian and Northern Affairs. Park Canada
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.
Changing Times
Overview of Métis history from the 1840s to 1875. Discusses the collapse of the buffalo hunting economy, the establishment of the community of St. Laurent, passing of laws to establish order, and the arrival of the North West Mounted Police.
Includes questions for students.
Chapter XXI -- "Rebellion"
Chapter XXVIX -- "The Quaint Indictment -- Seduced by the Devil"
The Commission of 1885 to the North-West Territories
Commission on First Nations and Métis Peoples and Justice Reform: Final Report. Volume 2: Submissions to the Commission
Commission to Study Halfbreed Land Claims - 1901
Commissioners and Women in Mess Tent at Duck Lake
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Commissioners' Mess Tent at Duck Lake
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Conservatives Back Down on Ile-a-la-Crosse Promise
Indian Affairs Minister Jim Prentice announces, "Métis students who attended the [Ile-a-la-Crosse Residential] school" will not be part of the Indian residential school compensation agreement.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.8.
Contesting the Colonial Order on the Canadian Prairies: Government Policy, Indigenous Resistance and the Administration of Treaty 6, 1870-1890
Creating a Healthy, Just, Prosperous and Safe Saskatchewan: A Response to the Commission on First Nations and Métis Peoples and Justice Reform
Criminal Empire: The Making of the Savage in a Lawless Land
Cut Knife Plaque
Diary of Francis Dickens - Vernon LaChance. - May 1930.
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The Dispersal of the Métis
The Dissolution of a Métis Community: Pointe à Grouette, 1860-1885
Dr. A.B. Stewart Papers - Napoleon Venne Correspondence. - 1923-1924.
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Duck Lake Agency - Ledger 1885-89, 1921-29
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Harold Nelson Woodsworth served as an Indian Agent at a number of agencies in Saskatchewan.Edgar Dewdney and the Aftermath of the Rebellion
Entitlements and Health Services for First Nations and Métis Women in Manitoba and Saskatchewan
The Ermatingers: A 19th Century Ojibwa-Canadian Family
The Face Pullers: Ch. 1 Images - Big Bear 1825-88
First Nations, Métis, Inuit: Outcomes & Indicators: Grades K-3
Fort Battleford National Historic Park
Fort Battleford National Historic Park. - Pamphlet. - 1956.
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Fort Battleford, built in 1876 and in use until 1924, was the sixth Northwest Mounted Police fort to be established in the Northwest Territories of Canada, and played a central role in the events of the Northwest Resistance of 1885.Fort Battleford National Historic Park. - Pamphlet. - 1965.
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