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Alfred Boyer Interview
Antoine Lonesinger 6 Interview
The Birth of Western Canada: A History of the Riel Rebellions
Canada and the Métis, 1869-1885
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.
Commission to Study Halfbreed Land Claims - 1901
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
Don McLean Interview
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.The Early West
Edgar Dewdney and the Aftermath of the Rebellion
Emergence and Evolution of the Métis Nation
Chronicles the Métis people's struggles for recognition, land and self-government.
Emily Norris Roehl Interview
Final Trial Statement & Subsequent Renounciation of Louis Riel: Final Statement of Louis Riel at His Trial in Regina
Fort Pitt Historic Park - Pamphlet.. - 1967.
Historical note:
Fred Horse Interview 2
Fred Paulhus Interview
From New Peoples to New Nations: Aspects of Métis History and Identity from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-first Centuries
[G. F. Shepherd, Notes 1937-1974]
File contains hand written and typed notes of historian George Shepherd, dated from 1937-1974. The notes include several pages on Aboriginal history in the North-West, that were scanned for this database. This includes a wide variety of material: from copy of a letter written by Louis Riel, to a list of the reserves in Saskatchewan in 1962 and their estimated landbase and populations.
Historical note:
Gentleman Joe McKay
Gentleman Joe McKay and Mistawasis on Horses
Gentleman Joe McKay & Mistawasis sitting
George Pritchard Interview #2
Giraud, M., "Western Metis After the Insurrection."
"Group of Rebel Leaders": Making Known the Sovereign and the Outlaw in the Speeches of Louis Riel
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
James (Jim) Brady
James Walsh Papers - Letter to Cora Walsh from J.M. Walsh - 31 May 1890.
Jimmy and Charlie Chief Interview
Land of the Red and White: 1875-1975
Lawrence Joseph Pritchard Interview #1
Lawrence Joseph Pritchard Interview #2
Legal Ideology in the Aftermath of Rebellion: The Convicted First Nations Participants, 1885
Leonard Frank Pambrun Interview
Louis Riel Addressing Jury in Court House at Regina
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 on Trial
Historical note:
Louis Riel / Part One - W.O. Mitchell.
Louis Riel’s Insanity Reconsidered
[Louis Riel's Part in Metis History and His Legacy in Canadian Culture]
Louis Riel Trial (1885)
Website contains links to trial transcript, chronology, selected maps, biography, and letters and diary entries introduced as evidence.