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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.
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
From New Peoples to New Nations: Aspects of Métis History and Identity from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-first Centuries
Gabriel Dumont: Métis Legend
Brief video discusses the life of the Metis leader and his role in the 1885 Resistance. Duration: 7:25.
Related Material: Transcript; Teacher's Guide.
"Group of Rebel Leaders": Making Known the Sovereign and the Outlaw in the Speeches of Louis Riel
Halfbreeds: Primary Source Material
Home from the Hill: A History of Métis in Western Canada
2nd edition.
Homeland to Hinterland: The Changing Worlds of the Red River Metis in the Nineteenth Century
Indian Studies 221.3: Introduction to Métis History
Louis Riel : Firebrand
Louis Riel, Justice and Métis Self-Identification: Literary Politics for Survival in the Evolution of Canadian Nationhood
Louis Riel: One Life, One Vision
Louis Riel: Patriot and Rebel
Métis Law in Canada, 2010
Métis Resistance Part 1
Part 2. Social Studies Grade 10. Power points look at the issues and events that were the impetus for the Red River and the North-West Resistance.
[Métis Scrip]: Lesson Plan
Designed for Grades 4-9.
La Mishow Wayayshhaywuk = The Big Rip Off: Loss of a Land Base: Metis Land Disentitlement: A Teacher's Resource Guide
Simulation game designed to teach students how loss of land at the hands of the federal government contributed to the Metis Resistance of 1885.
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.
The Political Game and the Bounds of Personal Honour: Sir Fredrick Middleton and the Bremner Furs
Pride and Poverty: The Rise and Fall of the Metis in Western Canada
The Red River Resistance of 1869-1870: The Machiavellian Moment of the Métis of Manitoba
Political Science Thesis (PhD) -- University of Ottawa, 2011.
Research Report on Metis Rights
Reviews
'The Right to be Heard': Saskatchewan First Nations and Métis Political Activism, 1922-1946
Timeline of Metis Resistance
Lists significant dates from 1811 to November 16, 1885.
Traditional Places and Modernist Spaces: Regional Geography and Northwestern Landscapes of Power in Canada, 1850-1990
Trouble at Red River
Recommended for Grade 10 Social Studies.
Chapter 8 from Flashback Canada by J. Bradley Cruxton and W. Doug Wilson.
Can be used in conjunction with Spy Mission: The Trouble at Red River.