CCP Handbook: Comprehensive Community Planning for First Nations
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indigenous Services Canada
Description
Fourth edition.
Noted playwright, journalist, filmmaker and novelist discusses his artistic journey. Duration: 1:17:07.
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.
Traditional stories written in English and Tłı̨chǫ.
Historical note:
On 2 May 1885 Lieutenant Colonel William Otter was defeated by Poundmaker's war chief Fine-Day at the Battle of Cut Knife near Battleford, SK. A flying column of Canadian militia and army regulars was defeated by Poundmaker despite their use of a Gatling gun.