Website created as an educational tool for teaching about the history, culture and language of the Métis and Ojibwe people through stories and other information.
Saskatchewan History, vol. 24, no. 2, Spring, 1971, pp. 63-72
Description
Describes the people and events surrounding the Frog Lake Massacre (1885); includes extensive information regarding the genealogy of several Métis families and their connections through the North West Company and the Hudson’s Bay Company.
Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 63.
Saskatchewan History, vol. 15, no. 1, Winter, 1962, pp. 1-18
Description
Journal describes a several different aspects of the North-West Resistance of 1885 from the perspective of Canadian Militia including the Guards Company’s trip to the North-West territories from Ottawa, the surrender of Pîhtokahanapiwiyin (Poundmaker) and the pursuit of Mistahimaskwa (Big Bear).
Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 1.
This essay examines reasons for unrest among the Aboriginal population of the old Northwest in the years leading up to the disturbances of 1885. The writer worked for the Indian Department of the Dominion Government during this time. Item found within folder 1 of file Rebellion, 1885.