Aboriginal Education in Canada: A Plea for Integration
Adams, Dr. Howard
Historical note:
Aime Joseph Dumont Interview
Alfred Durocher #1
Alfred Durocher #2
Allan Quandt Interview 1
Antoine Lonesinger 6 Interview
Art K. Davis Interview
Bill Wilson Interview
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.
Changing Times
Overview of Métis history from the 1840s to 1875. Discusses the collapse of the buffalo hunting economy, the establishment of the community of St. Laurent, passing of laws to establish order, and the arrival of the North West Mounted Police.
Includes questions for students.
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 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.
Charles Fosseneuve Interview
A Compendium of Aboriginal Healing Foundation Research
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.
Conflicting Plans
2nd edition.
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.
Don Nielson Interview 1
Ending an Era
Felix Ovide Boyer Interview
"First Assembly of the First Legislature of Manitoba"
Forgotten: The Métis Residential School Experience
Gus MacDonald Interview
Harry Daniels, Gabriel Daniels, Leah Gardner, Terry Joudrey and the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples and Her Majesty the Queen, as Represented by the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and the Attorney General of Canada: Reasons For Judgment
Helen E. & Joe Wheaton Interview
Helga M. Reydon Interview
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.
Indian Studies 221.3: Introduction to Métis History
"Indians, 1923-1962."
Irene Dimick #2 Interview
Isadore Ledoux Interview
Jean I. Goodwill Interview
Jean (John) Paul Ouellette Interview
General account of Mr. Ouellette's life and Métis
history.Joe Amyotte Interview
John George Gardiner Interview
Lawrence Joseph Pritchard Interview #1
Lawrence Joseph Pritchard Interview #2
Legislative Assembly of Assiniboia: Activity and Resources
Website contains links to game in which students make choices about what the Red River Settlement's people should do leading up to the creation of Manitoba; teacher resources; and other resources arranged by theme.
Related Material: From the Past Into the Future: Legislative Assembly of Assiniboia: Teacher’s Guide.
Leonard Frank Pambrun Interview
Mark Wolfleg Sr. Interview 2
Maurice Boyer Interview
Mederic McDougall Interview
Métis Law in Canada, 2010
Métis Nation Governance: Métis Foundational Knowledge Theme
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.
[Métis Scrip]: Lesson Plan
Designed for Grades 10-12.
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.