[Document One]: H.M. Snyder, Letter to James Douglas, Fraser River, Fort Yale, 28th August 1858
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Author/Creator
Daniel P. Marshall
Native Studies Review, vol. 11, no. 1, Native People in British Columbia: Recent Research, 1996, pp. 139-145
Description
Introduction and archival document regarding the plans and proceedings of H.M. Snyder to deal with the conflict between the Nlaka'pamux Nation and the Fraser River gold miners.
The James Mann Family genealogy was researched and compiled by family member Frank Nash in December 1996. Only the research he compiled on the family of George Gwynne Mann was scanned for this database. Included in this research is G. G. Mann's account of his family's two month captivity in Wandering Spirit's camp from April to June 1885 (see historical note).
Booklet on the life of Louis Riel up to the Red River Resistance (1869-1870), commissioned by the Manitoba Centennial Corporation in 1971 in honour of a new monument of Riel, which is located on the grounds of the Manitoba Legislative Building in Winnipeg. Louis Riel is regarded as the founder of the province of Manitoba. Booklet in English / French.
File contains information on activism, agriculture, reserve life, medical services, drug prescriptions, land claims, the Indian Act, Metis, Indigenous rights, chiefs, sterilization of indigenous women, the "Red Paper", discrimination, treaties 8 and 11, recreation, Liquor Act, provincial law, housing, Local Initiatives Programs, utilities on reserves, and poverty.