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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
The Archibald Administration in Manitoba - 1870-1872
Au Nom du Bon Dieu et du Buffalo: Métis Lived Catholicism on the Northern Plains
Back to Batoche
Batoche
Batoche Project
Discusses the 1885 Resistance from the Métis perspective.
The Battle at the Grand Coteau: July 13 and 14, 1851
The Battle at the Grand Couteau
The Battle of Batoche: British Small Warfare and the Entrenched Métis
The Battle of Batoche: British Small Warfare and the Entrenched Métis
Battle of Seven Oaks: 1816
The battle was a confrontation between the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company during the Pemmican War which was precipitated by a proclamation that no pemmican could be exported from the Red River Colony. The North West contingent was led by Cuthbert Grant and included a large number of Métis.
The Battle of Seven Oaks: A Metis Perspective
Looks at the Battle of Seven Oaks and provides biographies of the Métis participants.
The Battle of Seven Oaks: The Debate over Métis Independence
Examines the influence of the Battle of Seven Oaks on the creation of Métis nationhood.
Battleford Beleaguered: 1885: The Story of the Riel Uprising from the Columns of the Saskatchewan Herald
The Birth of Western Canada: A History of the Riel Rebellions
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
The Canadians and the Métis: The Re-Creation of Manitoba, 1858-1872
Central Canada's Patrick Riel: Metis Soldiers, English Canadian Settler Mythmaking, and the First World War
History Thesis (MA) -- University of Regina, 2021.
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: 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 8: The Métis [Student Quiz]
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
The Confrontation at Rivières aux Ilets de Bois
The Confrontations at Rivière aux Îlets-de-Bois
Contours of a People: Métis Family, Mobility, and History
Contrasting Worlds
Overview of Métis history from the 1600s to the early 1870s when many Métis migrated from Manitoba to Saskatchewan. Includes questions for students.
2nd edition.
Criminal Empire: The Making of the Savage in a Lawless Land
Critical Events: Métis Servicewomen's WWII Stories With Dorothy Chartrand
Critical Events: Métis Servicewomen’s WWII Stories with Dorothy Chartrand
A Critical History of the Red River Insurrection after Official Documents and Non-Catholic Sources
The Diary of Lieut. J.A.V. Preston, 1885
Divided Loyalties
Early Printing in the Red River Settlement, 1859-1870, and It's Effect on the Riel Rebellion
The Early West
Ending an Era
Entangling Empires, Fracturing Frontiers: Jean Baptiste Richardville and the Quest for Miami Autonomy, 1760-1841
An Episode of the North-West Rebellion 1885
Familial Foes? French-Sioux Families and Plains Métis Brigades in the Nineteenth Century
Fifty HIstorical Vignettes: Views of the Common People
Final Trial Statement & Subsequent Renounciation of Louis Riel: Final Statement of Louis Riel at His Trial in Regina
The First Shot Rang Out
Website for virtual exhibit centred on the Battle of Duck Lake, the first armed engagement of the North West Resistance. Includes links to 110 images, the story of the battle from the differing perspectives of the museum, the Métis, civilians and military, and First Nations and brief biographies of Gabriel Dumont, Louis Riel, Hillyard Mitchell, L.N.F. Crozier, and Acheson Gosford Irvine.