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1885: Métis Rebellion or Government Conspiracy?
1885: Rebellion or Resistance?
Explains why the Metis prefer to use the word resistance to describe the conflicts labelled as the Red River Rebellion and North West Rebellion by the Canadian government and press.
Aboriginal Peoples and Postsecondary Education in Canada
Adventurers in the New World: the Saga of the Coureurs de Bois
Any Important Form: Louis Riel in Sculpture
At the Cultural and Religious Crossroads: Sara Riel and the Grey Nuns in the Canadian Northwest, 1848-1883
The Attitude of the Roman Catholic Clergy Towards the Rebellions in 1870 and 1885
Au Nom du Bon Dieu et du Buffalo: Métis Lived Catholicism on the Northern Plains
Back to Batoche
Batoche
Batoche Interactive Theatre Proves to be Larger Than Life
Batoche Project
Discusses the 1885 Resistance from the Métis perspective.
The Battle of Batoche: British Small Warfare and the Entrenched Métis
The Battle of Batoche: British Small Warfare and the Entrenched Métis
Battle of Batoche Remembered 125 Years Later
Battleford Beleaguered: 1885: The Story of the Riel Uprising from the Columns of the Saskatchewan Herald
Beyond the Battlefield: Gabriel Dumont and Métis Leadership (1837-1885)
The Birth of Western Canada: A History of the Riel Rebellions
Book Reviews
Brandon and the Saskatchewan Rebellion
Canada and the Métis, 1869-1885
[Canada and the Métis, 1869-1885]
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
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: Conflict at Red River [Student Quiz]
For use with chapter from the Grade 7 Social Studies textbook Voices and Visions: A Story of Canada.
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 Collected Writings of Louis Riel / Les Ecrits Complets de Louis Riel
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.
Contesting the Colonial Order on the Canadian Prairies: Government Policy, Indigenous Resistance and the Administration of Treaty 6, 1870-1890
Crisis at Red River
A Critical History of the Red River Insurrection after Official Documents and Non-Catholic Sources
Dennis and Jean Fisher Donate Large Collection of Métis-Related Artefacts to Gabriel Dumont Institute
The Diary of Lieut. J.A.V. Preston, 1885
Dismantling the Patriarchal Altar From Within
Dispossession or Adaptation? Migration and Persistence of the Red River Métis, 1835‑1890
Dispossession vs. Accommodation in Plaintiff vs. Defendent Accounts of Métis Dispersal from Manitoba, 1870-1881
Early Printing in the Red River Settlement, 1859-1870, and It's Effect on the Riel Rebellion
The Early West
Edgar Dewdney and the Aftermath of the Rebellion
Emergence and Evolution of the Métis Nation
Chronicles the Métis people's struggles for recognition, land and self-government.