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1885: Métis Rebellion or Government Conspiracy?
1885: Rebellion or Resistance?
Explains why the Metis prefer to use the word resistance to describe the conflicts labelled as the Red River Rebellion and North West Rebellion by the Canadian government and press.
Aboriginal Peoples and Postsecondary Education in Canada
Actor Donald Sutherland Featured in Five-Hour 'Riel Commission' - Press release. - 16 April 1985.
Adams, Howard, Prison of Grass (Ch. 7-9)
Adventurers in the New World: the Saga of the Coureurs de Bois
Aime Joseph Dumont Interview
Alex Ouellette Interview
Alfred Boyer Interview
Annette, The Métis Spy: A Heroine of the N.W. Rebellion
Antoine Ferguson Interview
Antoine Lonesinger 6 Interview
Any Important Form: Louis Riel in Sculpture
At the Cultural and Religious Crossroads: Sara Riel and the Grey Nuns in the Canadian Northwest, 1848-1883
Attacking a Canadian supply steamer on the Saskatchewan - Sketch and article. - 23 May 1885.
The Attitude of the Roman Catholic Clergy Towards the Rebellions in 1870 and 1885
Au Nom du Bon Dieu et du Buffalo: Métis Lived Catholicism on the Northern Plains
Back to Batoche
Batoche
Batoche Interactive Theatre Proves to be Larger Than Life
Batoche National Historic Site / Development of the Management Plan for Batoche / Parks Canada's response to Public Comment on the Plan Alternatives.- Report. - June 1982.
Batoche Project
Discusses the 1885 Resistance from the Métis perspective.
Batoche Rectory National Parks Sign
The Battle of Batoche: British Small Warfare and the Entrenched Métis
The Battle of Batoche: British Small Warfare and the Entrenched Métis
Battle of Batoche Remembered 125 Years Later
Battleford Beleaguered.
Battleford Beleaguered: 1885: The Story of the Riel Uprising from the Columns of the Saskatchewan Herald
Beyond the Battlefield: Gabriel Dumont and Métis Leadership (1837-1885)
The Birth of Western Canada: A History of the Riel Rebellions
Book Reviews
Brandon and the Saskatchewan Rebellion
The Campaign of 1885: A Contemporary Account
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.
Campsite at Cussed Creek
Historical note:
Writers were unable to find any information on a "Battle of Cussed Creek" between First Nations and the Yorkton Home Guard in 1885. The Yorkton Home Guard was a locally organized militia company which was compensated for services in 1885 by the Federal Government.Canada and the Métis, 1869-1885
[Canada and the Métis, 1869-1885]
Canada. Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources
Canadian History - Historic Sites and Monuments - Batoche
The Canadian North-West: Its History and Its Troubles from the Early Day of the Fur-Trade to the Era of the Railway and the Settler: With Incidents of Travel in the Region, and the Narrative of Three Insurrections
Caroline Vandale Interview
Cemetery at Batoche
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 8: The Métis
Highlights development of Métis identity and culture and the conflict between colonists and residents of the Red River which culminated in the Red River Resistances of 1869 and 1885. Student handout for use with Chapter from Grade 7 Social Studies textbook Voices and Visions: A Story of Canada by Daniel Francis; contributing authors Angus Scully and Jill Germain.
Chapter 8: The Métis: Conflict at Red River [Student Quiz]
For use with chapter from the Grade 7 Social Studies textbook Voices and Visions: A Story of Canada.
Chapter 8: The Métis [Notes]
For use with chapter from the Grade 7 Social Studies textbook Voices and Visions: A Story of Canada.
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.