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Aboriginal Peoples and Postsecondary Education in Canada
Attacking a Canadian supply steamer on the Saskatchewan - Sketch and article. - 23 May 1885.
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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 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.
Copy of illustration: "Escape of the McKay family through the ice to Prince Albert"
The Dispersal of the Métis
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.Finding Home on the Way: Naming the Métis
The First Expedition for the Relief of Battleford Attacked by Halfbreeds - Sketch. - 1885.
Forming Civilization at Red River: 19th-Century Missionary Education of Métis and First Nations Children
From Savagery to Civilization: The Canadian North-West: Its History and Its Troubles from the Early Days ... and the Narrative of Three Insurrections
Gabriel Dumont - Portrait
Halfbreed: The Remarkable True Story of George Bent-Caught Between the Worlds of the Indian and the White Man
A History of Riel's Second Rebellion and How It Was Quelled
The History of the North-West Rebellion of 1885
The Illustrated War News, Nos. 1 to 18 Inclusive: Containing All the Illustrations Referring to the North-West Rebellion of 1885, from Its Outbreak to the Return and Disbanding of Troops
Includes text and images.
L' Insurrection du Nord-Ouest, 1885
Intersections of Memory, Ancestral Language, and Imagination; or, the Textual Production of Michif Voices as Cultural Weaponry
[John Franklin Boyd]
Notes and sketches from a trip taken by John Franklin Boyd in July and August, 1885, from Minnedosa, Manitoba to visit Prince Albert and the places involved in the North-West Rebellion.
Land of the Red and White: 1875-1975
Louis Riel Addressing Jury in Court House at Regina
Louis Riel on Trial
Historical note:
[Louis Riel's Part in Metis History and His Legacy in Canadian Culture]
The Métis
Chapter 8 in Voices and Visions: A Story of Canada, a Grade 7 Social Studies textbook.
Metis casualty
Métis History and Experience and Residential Schools in Canada
Métis Identity: Sharing Traditional Knowledge and Healing Practices at Métis Elders' Gatherings
Métis Killed During the 1885 Resistance
The Métis Nation and Métis Aboriginal Rights
Research paper discusses history and legal aspects of rights in relation to the Powley case.
Related Material: Fact Sheet.
Metis prisoners in courtyard
Metis Rifle Pits Sketch Grayscale
Métissage in New France: Frenchification, Mixed Marriages and Métis as Shaped by Social and Political Agents and Institutions 1508-1886
Michel Dumais - Portrait
Historical note:
Michel Dumais, prominent South Branch Metis. Dumais was one of the delegates sent to retrieve Riel from Montana in 1884 along with Gabriel Dumont and James Isbister. He was farm instructor at the One Arrow Cree Reserve until 1885. After fighting in the Resistance he fled to Montana alongside Gabriel Dumont.The Old Settlers of the Red River
[Papers and Correspondence in Connection with Half-breed Claims and Other Matters Relating to the North-West Territories]
"Rebel Positions Fish Creek"
Rebellion, 1885 - Order book of the North-West Field Force.
The Rebellion in Canada
Reluctant Homesteader: A French Settler’s Story
Reluctant Homesteader: A French Settler’s Story, Part One
Riel Rebellion Period Newspapers
The Saskatchewan rebellion - Newspaper clipping and sketch. - 18 April 1885.
"Scene of Fight" [Battle of Duck Lake]
Sentry Box in Prince Albert during Rebellion (some question as to info)
La Situation au Nord-Ouest
Story of the Northwest Resistance of 1885.