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Aboriginal Rights: The Dispossession of the Métis
An Act further to amend The Indian Act, Chapter Forty-Three of the Revised Statutes. [Assented to 22nd May, 1888].
Annotated Bibliography: Métis in Ontario
Antoine Lonesinger 6 Interview
Are the Métis Treaty People?
Canada. Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources
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 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
Commission to Study Halfbreed Land Claims - 1901
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.
Contesting the Colonial Order on the Canadian Prairies: Government Policy, Indigenous Resistance and the Administration of Treaty 6, 1870-1890
[Daniels in Context]
Les Desjarlais: Aboriginal Ethnogenesis and Diaspora in a Canadien Family
Duck Lake Agency - Ledger 1885-89, 1921-29
Historical note:
Harold Nelson Woodsworth served as an Indian Agent at a number of agencies in Saskatchewan.Emergence and Evolution of the Métis Nation
Chronicles the Métis people's struggles for recognition, land and self-government.
Fragmentation and Realignment: The Continuing Cycle of Métis and Non-Status Indian Political Organizations in Canada
From New Peoples to New Nations: Aspects of Métis History and Identity from the Eighteenth to Twenty-First Centuries
Half-Breed Commission at Sturgeon River
Halfbreeds: Primary Source Material
History of the North-West [vol. 2]
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.
Isadore Ledoux Interview
Land Claims [Part One]
Louis Riel, Justice and Métis Self-Identification: Literary Politics for Survival in the Evolution of Canadian Nationhood
Louis Riel: Justice Must Be Done
Argues for a posthumous pardon of the Metis leader.
Louis Riel / Part One - W.O. Mitchell.
Mark Wolfleg Sr. Interview 2
Métis Land: Rights and Scrip Conference: Welcoming Remarks and Keynote Presentation
Métis Perspective on Self-Government
Métis Perspective on the Split in Jurisdiction
Métis Scrip in Alberta
A Métis Treaty Through the Lens of International Law
Mrs. Ada Ladue and Mrs. Beatrice Nightraveller Interview
Multiple Voices: Looking at the History of Batoche through the Eyes of Multiple Perspectives
The National Policy, the Department of the Interior and Original Settlers: Land Claims of the Metis, Green Lake, Saskatchewan 1909-1930
Natives and Settlers Now and Then: Historical Issues and Current Perspectives on Treaties and Land Claims in Canada
The Northwest Scrip Commissions as Federal Policy - Some Initial Findings
Open History Seminar: Canadian History
Collection of primary and secondary sources suitable for use at secondary and post-secondary levels. Can be used to supplement Canadian History: Pre-Confederation and Canadian History: Post-Confederation.
Our Land: Native Rights in Canada
The Political Game and the Bounds of Personal Honour: Sir Fredrick Middleton and the Bremner Furs
Political Responses
Prince Albert River Lots
Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples: Issue 25 - Evidence - October 23, 2012
Racially "Indian", Legally "White": The Canadian State's Struggles to Categorize the Métis, 1850-1900
Rebellion, 1885 - Some Causes of Unrest Among Indians in the Early "80s."
Reconsidering Confederation: Canada's Founding Debates, 1864 - 1999
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Chapter Two: Compact, Contract, Covenant: The Evolution of First Nations Treaty-Making by J.R. Miller.
Chapter Six: Resisting Canada’s Will: Manitoba’s Entry into Confederation by Robert Wardhaugh and Barry Ferguson.
Chapter Eleven: “A More Accurate Face on Canada to the World”: The Creation of Nunavut by P. Whitney Lackenbauer and Andr&ecaute Légaré.