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Aboriginal Labour in the North-West
Aboriginal Peoples and Postsecondary Education in Canada
An Absolutely Uncritical Look at What Has Been Written About the Métis.
Speech given at the1885 and After Conference held in Saskatoon in 1985 looks at historical ideologies regarding Métis culture in a contemporary context.
Actor Donald Sutherland Featured in Five-Hour 'Riel Commission' - Press release. - 16 April 1985.
Archdeacon Thomas Vincent of Moosonee and the Handicap of 'Metis' Racial Status
Aspects of Canadian Metis History
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
Book Reviews
The Buffalo Hunt
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
Changing Times
Overview of Métis history from the 1840s to 1875. Discusses the collapse of the buffalo hunting economy, the establishment of the community of St. Laurent, passing of laws to establish order, and the arrival of the North West Mounted Police.
Includes questions for students.
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.
Clara Pratt Interview #1
Conflicting Plans
2nd edition.
Contrasting Worlds
Overview of Métis history from the 1600s to the early 1870s when many Métis migrated from Manitoba to Saskatchewan. Includes questions for students.
2nd edition.
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
Copy of the Document Sent to French Representatives by French People, Red River Settlement, 29 November 1869
Letter signed by 95 people states opposition to Louis Riel's proposal for establishment of a provisional government.
The Crutwell AMNSIS Local #66 recieve Ball Diamond Funds
The Dispersal of the Métis
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.Ending an Era
Eva Owl Interview #2
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
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.
Gabriel Dumont - Portrait
The Genealogy of the First Metis Nation: The Development and Dispersal of the Red River Settlement, 1820-1900
Halfbreed: The Remarkable True Story of George Bent-Caught Between the Worlds of the Indian and the White Man
Hearty Co-operation and Efficient Aid, the Metis and Treaty #3
A History of Riel's Second Rebellion and How It Was Quelled
The History of the North-West Rebellion of 1885
Hold High Your Heads: History of the Métis Nation in Western Canada
Housing the Homeguard at Moose Factory: 1730-1982
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.
The Indian, the Métis and the Fur Trade: Class, Sexism and Racism in the Transition form "Communism" to Capitalism
L' Insurrection du Nord-Ouest, 1885
Intersections of Memory, Ancestral Language, and Imagination; or, the Textual Production of Michif Voices as Cultural Weaponry
[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.