Aboriginal Peoples and Postsecondary Education in Canada
At Devil Lake
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Narcisse-Omer Cote (1859-1944) a civil servant for the Government of Canada, entered the department of the interior in 1879. In 1885, he was appointed secretary to the Royal Commission investigating and adjudicating Metis claims. In 1900 he became a Commissioner of the North-West Half-Breed Commission. The Commission was to enumerate and issue scrip to the Metis who qualified in the district of Saskatchewan and a small part of Manitoba. Their work lasted from May 16 to December 6 1900.At Snake Plains
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At Snake Plains (Men Posing in front of tent)
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At Snake Plains (picnic)
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Narcisse-Omer Cote (1859-1944) a civil servant for the Government of Canada, entered the department of the interior in 1879. In 1885, he was appointed secretary to the Royal Commission investigating and adjudicating Metis claims. In 1900 he became a Commissioner of the North-West Half-Breed Commission. The Commission was to enumerate and issue scrip to the Metis who qualified in the district of Saskatchewan and a small part of Manitoba. Their work lasted from May 16 to December 6 1900.Attacking a Canadian supply steamer on the Saskatchewan - Sketch and article. - 23 May 1885.
Back to Batoche
Blanketing a Nation: Tracing the Social Life of the Hudson's Bay Company Point Blanket Through Canadian Visual Culture
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
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.
Commissioners and Women in Mess Tent at Duck Lake
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Commissioners' Mess Tent at Duck Lake
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Copy of illustration: "Escape of the McKay family through the ice to Prince Albert"
Copy of Official Reports (116H) from Major General Middleton, C.B. (Commanding North-West Field Force), Concerning the Engagements at Fish Creek, on the 24th April, 1885, Poundmaker's Camp (Near Cree's Reserve) 2nd May, 1885, Batoche, 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th May, 1885
The Dispersal of the Métis
Duck Lake Agency - Ledger 1885-89, 1921-29
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Harold Nelson Woodsworth served as an Indian Agent at a number of agencies in Saskatchewan.Finding Home on the Way: Naming the Métis
The First Expedition for the Relief of Battleford Attacked by Halfbreeds - Sketch. - 1885.
The First of All Things: The Significance of Place in Métis Histories and Communities in the Qu'Appelle Valley, Saskatchewan
Forming Civilization at Red River: 19th-Century Missionary Education of Métis and First Nations Children
From Savagery to Civilization: The Canadian North-West: Its History and Its Troubles from the Early Days ... and the Narrative of Three Insurrections
Gabriel Dumont - Portrait
Half-Breed Commission at Duck Lake
Half-Breed Commission at Duck Lake
Half-Breed Commission at Duck lake
Half-Breed Commission at Fort Pitt
Half-Breed Commission at Sturgeon River
Half-Breed Commission on Trail to Green Lake
Halfbreed: The Remarkable True Story of George Bent-Caught Between the Worlds of the Indian and the White Man
A History of Riel's Second Rebellion and How It Was Quelled
The History of the North-West Rebellion of 1885
The Illustrated War News, Nos. 1 to 18 Inclusive: Containing All the Illustrations Referring to the North-West Rebellion of 1885, from Its Outbreak to the Return and Disbanding of Troops
Includes text and images.
L' Insurrection du Nord-Ouest, 1885
Intersections of Memory, Ancestral Language, and Imagination; or, the Textual Production of Michif Voices as Cultural Weaponry
Jacob Johnston
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[John Franklin Boyd]
Notes and sketches from a trip taken by John Franklin Boyd in July and August, 1885, from Minnedosa, Manitoba to visit Prince Albert and the places involved in the North-West Rebellion.
Land of the Red and White: 1875-1975
Louis Riel Addressing Jury in Court House at Regina
Louis Riel on Trial
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[Louis Riel's Part in Metis History and His Legacy in Canadian Culture]
Making the Voyageur World : Travelers and Traders in the North American Fur Trade
The Métis
Chapter 8 in Voices and Visions: A Story of Canada, a Grade 7 Social Studies textbook.
Metis casualty
Métis History and Experience and Residential Schools in Canada
Métis Identity: Sharing Traditional Knowledge and Healing Practices at Métis Elders' Gatherings
Métis Killed During the 1885 Resistance
The Métis Nation and Métis Aboriginal Rights
Research paper discusses history and legal aspects of rights in relation to the Powley case.
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