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Aboriginal Peoples and Postsecondary Education in Canada
Adams, Dr. Howard
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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.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.
The Commission of 1885 to the North-West Territories
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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Contesting the Colonial Order on the Canadian Prairies: Government Policy, Indigenous Resistance and the Administration of Treaty 6, 1870-1890
Criminal Empire: The Making of the Savage in a Lawless Land
The Dispersal of the Métis
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
The Ermatingers: A 19th Century Ojibwa-Canadian Family
Fort Pitt Historic Park - Pamphlet.. - 1967.
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Fragmentation and Realignment: The Continuing Cycle of Métis and Non-Status Indian Political Organizations in Canada
[G. F. Shepherd, Notes 1937-1974]
File contains hand written and typed notes of historian George Shepherd, dated from 1937-1974. The notes include several pages on Aboriginal history in the North-West, that were scanned for this database. This includes a wide variety of material: from copy of a letter written by Louis Riel, to a list of the reserves in Saskatchewan in 1962 and their estimated landbase and populations.
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Gentleman Joe McKay
Gentleman Joe McKay and Mistawasis on Horses
Gentleman Joe McKay & Mistawasis sitting
The Gilchrist Diaries
Half-Breed Commission on Trail to Green Lake
The Half-Breed "Rising" of 1875
Hivernant Métis Families, Brigades and Settlements in the Cypress Hills
Illustration of Louis Riel on Trial
James Walsh Papers - Letter to Cora Walsh from J.M. Walsh - 31 May 1890.
James Walsh Papers - Miscellaneous
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James Morrow Walsh (22 May 1840 - 25 July 1905) was a North West Mounted Police (NWMP) officer and the first Commissioner of the Yukon Territory. Born in Prescott, Ontario, James Walsh was one of the original officers of the NWMP.Law and Criminal Labels: The Case of the French Métis in Western Canada
Legal Ideology in the Aftermath of Rebellion: The Convicted First Nations Participants, 1885
Louis Riel Addressing Jury in Court House at Regina
Louis Riel: Justice Must Be Done
Argues for a posthumous pardon of the Metis leader.
Louis Riel on Trial
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