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The Birth of Western Canada: A History of the Riel Rebellions
Canada and the Métis, 1869-1885
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 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.
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
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.
Final Trial Statement & Subsequent Renounciation of Louis Riel: Final Statement of Louis Riel at His Trial in Regina
From New Peoples to New Nations: Aspects of Métis History and Identity from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-first Centuries
"Group of Rebel Leaders": Making Known the Sovereign and the Outlaw in the Speeches of Louis Riel
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.
Land of the Red and White: 1875-1975
Legal Ideology in the Aftermath of Rebellion: The Convicted First Nations Participants, 1885
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 Insanity Reconsidered
[Louis Riel's Part in Metis History and His Legacy in Canadian Culture]
Métis Claims to "Indian" Title in Manitoba, 1860-1870
Métis Law in Canada, 2010
Metis say Proof of Being is a Link to Riel: Identity Issue could be Settles by Courts
Multiple Voices: Looking at the History of Batoche through the Eyes of Multiple Perspectives
"Non Compos Mentis: a Meta-Historical Survey of the Historigraphic Narratives of Louis Riel's "Insanity""
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.