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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 8: The Métis [Notes]
For use with chapter from the Grade 7 Social Studies textbook Voices and Visions: A Story of Canada.
Commission to Study Halfbreed Land Claims - 1901
Contesting the Colonial Order on the Canadian Prairies: Government Policy, Indigenous Resistance and the Administration of Treaty 6, 1870-1890
Diefenbaker at Batoche cemetery
Duck Lake Agency - Ledger 1885-89, 1921-29
Historical note:
Harold Nelson Woodsworth served as an Indian Agent at a number of agencies in Saskatchewan.Ending an Era
In Memory of Mary Rose (Pritchard) Sayers: The Last Witness
J. Z. LaRocque: A Métis Historian’s Account of His Family’s Experiences during the North-West Rebellion of 1885
Discusses Joseph Zépherin LaRocque, born in Lebret, Saskatchewan, who was one of the very few Métis vernacular historians writing in the early 20th century.
[Louis Riel: Documents Found in Possession of]
Translations of correspondence with and by Riel, mainly written in 1885.
Louis Riel: Justice Must Be Done
Argues for a posthumous pardon of the Metis leader.
Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion
Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion
Métis Resistance Part 1
Part 2. Social Studies Grade 10. Power points look at the issues and events that were the impetus for the Red River and the North-West Resistance.
North-West Rebellion 1885: Recollections, Reflections and Items from the Diary of Captain (now Lt. Col.) A. Hamlyn Todd who Commanded the Guards Company of Sharpshooters in that Expedition
[Papers and Correspondence in Connection with Half-breed Claims and Other Matters Relating to the North-West Territories]
The Political Game and the Bounds of Personal Honour: Sir Fredrick Middleton and the Bremner Furs
Rebellion, 1885 - Order book of the North-West Field Force.
Rebellion, 1885 - Some Causes of Unrest Among Indians in the Early "80s."
Request for the City of Saskatoon to send a Representative to Batoche
"Riel Rebellion"
[Saskatoon Public Schools -Treaty Education Resources]: Grade Four
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.
Steele Narrows: A Saskatchewan Historic Site
Historical note:
The Battle of Loon Lake concluded the Northwest Resistance on June 3 and was the last battle ever fought on Canadian soil.