Aboriginal Citizenship in Transition
Graduate Research Projects & Papers
Author/Creator
Doug Kane
Description
Public Administration Project (M.A.)--Queen's University, 2000.
Looks at the lack of acknowledgment of Riel being a Métis by English-speaking nor French-speaking writers.
Letters written by Canadian Militia Colour Sergeant William Thomas Wrighton in April and May of 1885 describe his experience at the Battle of Batoche during the Northwest Resistance. Includes archival photos of the soldiers and battlegrounds taken by Captain J. Peters. Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 100.
Historical note:
On 2 May 1885 Lieutenant Colonel William Otter was defeated by Poundmaker's war chief Fine-Day at the Battle of Cut Knife near Battleford, SK. A flying column of Canadian militia and army regulars was defeated by Poundmaker despite their use of a Gatling gun.Relates how a non-Aboriginal parent's right to harvest organs and cremate an adoptive son superseded a Cree biological mother's right to bury her adult son according to First Nation spiritual and cultural beliefs.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.1.
Historical note:
From The Graphic, an Illustrated Newspaper.