Metis Rifle Pits Sketch Grayscale
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Description
A sketch of Metis rifle pits in 1885, likely in the Batoche area.
Historical note:
Michel Dumais, prominent South Branch Metis. Dumais was one of the delegates sent to retrieve Riel from Montana in 1884 along with Gabriel Dumont and James Isbister. He was farm instructor at the One Arrow Cree Reserve until 1885. After fighting in the Resistance he fled to Montana alongside Gabriel Dumont.Looks at non-formal traditional skills programs with embedded literacy offered in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut.
Communication, Art and Technology Thesis (M.F.A.)--Simon Fraser University, 2013.
"A collection of stories and photographs of objects from the Dehcho".