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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.
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
Facts for the People: The Northwest Rebellion, the Question of the Half-Breeds and the Government's Treatment of Them
The Formal List of Rights
From New Peoples to New Nations: Aspects of Métis History and Identity from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-first Centuries
Gabriel Dumont: Métis Legend
Brief video discusses the life of the Metis leader and his role in the 1885 Resistance. Duration: 7:25.
Related Material: Transcript; Teacher's Guide.
"Group of Rebel Leaders": Making Known the Sovereign and the Outlaw in the Speeches of Louis Riel
Halfbreeds: Primary Source Material
Home from the Hill: A History of Métis in Western Canada
2nd edition.
Homeland to Hinterland: The Changing Worlds of the Red River Metis in the Nineteenth Century
Indian Studies 221.3: Introduction to Métis History
Leonard Frank Pambrun Interview
Louis Riel : Firebrand
Louis Riel, Justice and Métis Self-Identification: Literary Politics for Survival in the Evolution of Canadian Nationhood
Louis Riel: One Life, One Vision
Louis Riel: Patriot and Rebel
Marie Osecap 2 Interview
Mederic McDougall Interview
Métis Law in Canada, 2010
Métis Resistance Part 1
Part 2. Social Studies Grade 10. Power points look at the issues and events that were the impetus for the Red River and the North-West Resistance.
[Métis Scrip]: Lesson Plan
Designed for Grades 4-9.
La Mishow Wayayshhaywuk = The Big Rip Off: Loss of a Land Base: Metis Land Disentitlement: A Teacher's Resource Guide
Simulation game designed to teach students how loss of land at the hands of the federal government contributed to the Metis Resistance of 1885.
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.
[Papers and Correspondence in Connection with Half-breed Claims and Other Matters Relating to the North-West Territories]
The Political Game and the Bounds of Personal Honour: Sir Fredrick Middleton and the Bremner Furs
Pride and Poverty: The Rise and Fall of the Metis in Western Canada
The Red River Resistance of 1869-1870: The Machiavellian Moment of the Métis of Manitoba
Report of the Select Committee on the Causes of the Difficulties in North-West Territories in 1869-70
Research Report on Metis Rights
Reviews
'The Right to be Heard': Saskatchewan First Nations and Métis Political Activism, 1922-1946
Sister A. Brady, Anne Brady Walther, Dorothy Chapman
Timeline of Metis Resistance
Lists significant dates from 1811 to November 16, 1885.
To the gentlemen who kindly invite me to hold a public meeting in Prince Albert.
Traditional Places and Modernist Spaces: Regional Geography and Northwestern Landscapes of Power in Canada, 1850-1990
Trouble at Red River
Recommended for Grade 10 Social Studies.
Chapter 8 from Flashback Canada by J. Bradley Cruxton and W. Doug Wilson.
Can be used in conjunction with Spy Mission: The Trouble at Red River.