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1885: Metis Rebellion or Government Conspiracy?
Aboriginal Education in Canada: A Plea for Integration
Aboriginal Rights: The Dispossession of the Métis
An Act further to amend The Indian Act, Chapter Forty-Three of the Revised Statutes. [Assented to 22nd May, 1888].
Annotated Bibliography: Métis in Ontario
The Archibald Administration in Manitoba - 1870-1872
Are the Métis Treaty People?
"As Their Natural Resources Fail": Native Peoples and the Economic History of Northern Manitoba, 1870-1930
'As Their Natural Resources Fail': Native Peoples and the Economic History of Northern Manitoba: 1870-1930
As Their Natural Resources Fail: Native Peoples and the Economic History of Northern Manitoba, 1870-1930
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
Highlights development of Métis identity and culture and the conflict between colonists and residents of the Red River which culminated in the Red River Resistances of 1869 and 1885. Student handout for use with Chapter from Grade 7 Social Studies textbook Voices and Visions: A Story of Canada by Daniel Francis; contributing authors Angus Scully and Jill Germain.
Chapter 8: The Métis [Notes]
For use with chapter from the Grade 7 Social Studies textbook Voices and Visions: A Story of Canada.
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.
The Commission of 1885 to the North-West Territories
A Compendium of Aboriginal Healing Foundation Research
Confederation Debates, 1865-1949: Intermediate/Senior Mini Unit: Manitoba Provincial Edition
After reading background information, brief biographies and primary materials, students engage in a debate between the pro- and anti-Confederation factions. Activities align with Manitoba curriculum guides for Grade 6 Social Studies and Grade 11 History of Canada.
Conflicting Plans
2nd edition.
The Confrontation at Rivières aux Ilets de Bois
The Confrontations at Rivière aux Îlets-de-Bois
Contesting the Colonial Order on the Canadian Prairies: Government Policy, Indigenous Resistance and the Administration of Treaty 6, 1870-1890
[Daniels in Context]
Les Desjarlais: Aboriginal Ethnogenesis and Diaspora in a Canadien Family
Dibaajimowin: The Art of Storytelling
Elusive Shadows
Emergence and Evolution of the Métis Nation
Chronicles the Métis people's struggles for recognition, land and self-government.
Ending an Era
Fifty HIstorical Vignettes: Views of the Common People
Forgotten: The Métis Residential School Experience
Fragmentation and Realignment: The Continuing Cycle of Métis and Non-Status Indian Political Organizations in Canada
From New Peoples to New Nations: Aspects of Métis History and Identity from the Eighteenth to Twenty-First Centuries
Halfbreeds: Primary Source Material
How Did the Confederation of Manitoba Take Place?
For use with high school students. Excerpt from Shaping Canada: Our Histories from the Beginning to Present by Linda Connor, Brian Hull, and Connie Wyatt Anderson.
In Memory of Mary Rose (Pritchard) Sayers: The Last Witness
Indian Studies 221.3: Introduction to Métis History
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.
"Just Do It!" Self-Determination For Complex Minorities
Land Claims [Part One]
Land Grants Under the Manitoba Act
Louis Riel and the Fenian Raid of 1871
Louis Riel, Justice and Métis Self-Identification: Literary Politics for Survival in the Evolution of Canadian Nationhood
Louis Riel: Justice Must Be Done
Argues for a posthumous pardon of the Metis leader.
Louis Riel’s Letter to President Grant, 1875
Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion
Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion
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.
Métis and the Medicine Line: Creating a Border and Dividing a People
Métis and the Medicine Line: Creating a Border and Dividing a People
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.