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The Battle of Seven Oaks: A Metis Perspective
Looks at the Battle of Seven Oaks and provides biographies of the Métis participants.
The Battle of Seven Oaks: The Debate over Métis Independence
Examines the influence of the Battle of Seven Oaks on the creation of Métis nationhood.
Central Canada's Patrick Riel: Metis Soldiers, English Canadian Settler Mythmaking, and the First World War
History Thesis (MA) -- University of Regina, 2021.
Chapter 9: The Métis Rise Up
Focuses on the causes of the Métis Resistances and their implications for the province of Manitoba and Canada as a whole. Intended for use in Grade 7 Social Studies classes.
Chapter from Our Canada: Origins, Peoples, Perspectives by David Rees, Darrell Anderson Gerrits, and Gratien Allaire.
Colonialism’s Impact upon the Health of Métis Elderly: History, Oppression, Identity and Consequences
Political Science Thesis (PhD) -- University of Regina, 2013.
Conflicting Plans
2nd edition.
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.
Explore Presents the Hudson's Bay Company: Part 1: Waskaganish
Podcast series about the history of the company.
Fifty HIstorical Vignettes: Views of the Common People
Flags of the Métis
Gabriel Dumont: Métis Legend
Brief video discusses the life of the Metis leader and his role in the 1885 Resistance. Duration: 7:25.
Related Material: Transcript; Teacher's Guide.
Grade 7 Social Studies Study Guide
Meant for use with the textbook Voices and Visions: A Story of Canada by Daniel Francis; contributing authors Angus Scully and Jill Germain.
A Guide to the Louis Riel Papers
Discusses documents found in the Provincial Archives of Manitoba, Archives de l'Archevêché de Saint-Boniface, Public Archives of Canada, Archives de la Chancellerie de l’Archevêché de Montréal, and Les Archives du Séminaire de Québec and the periods in Riel's life which are not represented in any collections. Two appendices list documents and the repositories in which they are found. Research was conducted as part of the Riel Project and published as The Collected Papers of Louis Riel.
Hiding in Plain Sight: The Métis Nation
Podcast features researchers from Library and Archives Canada's and the Saint-Boniface Historical Society discussing how their institutions are helping people discover their ancestry and identity.
Duration: 38:24.
Home from the Hill: A History of Métis in Western Canada
2nd edition.
Indian Studies 221.3: Introduction to Métis History
Introducing Métis People: Taking a Look at Métis People in Canada
Power point and slide notes.
Lagimodiere and Their Descendants, 1635 to 1885
The Last Battle of Seven Oaks Puppet Play
For use with article Last Battle of Seven Oaks, written by Heather Wright and illustrated by Celia Krampien found on p. 30 of the special issue "How Furs Built Canada" of Kayak: Canada’s History Magazine for Kids. Suitable for Grades 2-6.
Louis Riel, Justice, and Métis Self-Identification: Literary Politics for Survival in the Evolution of Canadian Nationhood
English Thesis (PhD) -- University of London, 2014.
Manitoba and Canada's North-West: Founders and Builders
Special issue of Canadian Issues containing articles which focus on the Métis and the formation of Manitoba.
The Métis
Intended for use with elementary school students. Some language is outdated due year of publication (1980).
The Métis as a Factor in the Euro-Canadian Development of the Canadian West
Argues that the Métis were not an impediment to Euro-Canadian development and that their fight to be recognized as a "New Nation" played a significant role in the creation of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta.
Métis History and Culture: What Type of Transportation to Use?
Hands-on activity about how the Métis solved transportation issues, including the Red River cart and the York boat.
[Métis History Exam Questions]
For elementary students.
[Métis History & Identity: Lesson Plan]
Created for Grades 10-12.
[The Métis Sash]: Lesson Plan
For use with Grades 4-9.
[Métis Scrip]: Lesson Plan
Designed for Grades 4-9.
[Métis Scrip]: Lesson Plan
Designed for Grades 10-12.
La Mishow Wayayshhaywuk = The Big Rip Off: Loss of a Land Base: Metis Land Disentitlement: A Teacher's Resource Guide
Simulation game designed to teach students how loss of land at the hands of the federal government contributed to the Metis Resistance of 1885.
A Mother and Father of Pembina: A NWC Voyageur Meets the Granddaughter of The Buffaloe
Highlights the life of a North West Company voyageur and his Indigenous wife that bore Métis children.
“My ancestors would be proud of us”: Métis Women and 2SLGBTQQIA+ People’s Housing Histories, Experiences, Struggles, and Perspectives
Sources of information include survey, conversational interviews, document analysis and literature reviews.
Open History Seminar: Canadian History
Collection of primary and secondary sources suitable for use at secondary and post-secondary levels. Can be used to supplement Canadian History: Pre-Confederation and Canadian History: Post-Confederation.
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade 5: Unit Scope and Introduction
[Oral History Lesson Plan]
Created for Grade 4.
Paquin / Pocha: The Origins of a Family in the Canadian Fur Trade, 1634-1896
Pride and Poverty: The Rise and Fall of the Metis in Western Canada
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.
Re-matriating Territorial Acknowledgement: A Métis Women’s Perspective
A personal reflection on providing a Métis perspective to land acknowledgments.
The Scotsman in Canada, Volume II
The Seven Oaks Incident and the Construction of a Historical Tradition, 1816 to 1970
An examination of the story and the discourse on the Battle of Seven Oaks using an examining of the primary sources of the time.
Social Studies Grade 5: Canada: The Peoples and Stories of This Land: A Curriculum and Guide to Implementation
Nine modules: Origins and Connections to the Land; Pre-Contact Cultures; Early European Exploration and Colonization; Nouvelle-France and Cultural Integration; French-English Rivalry; Refugees, Warriors and Reformers; Negotiating Confederation; Furs, Farms and the Métis; and Treaties, War, and the Changing West.
Integrates Dene, Inuvialuit and Inuinnait perspectives on history.
"Territorial Pilot 2011-2012".
Spy Mission: The Trouble at Red River
Role playing game which involves John A. Macdonald asking students to become spies and send information back to the government. Suitable for Grades 5-11.
“We know where we are” the Role of Place in Indigenous Historiography by Haudenosaunee and Northwest Métis Historians
History Thesis (PhD) -- University of Victoria, 2023.