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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.
The Amazing Adventures of Christina and Nan: Christina Henry’s Trip Diary, “Northern Saskatchewan Holiday,” with Annotations by Duff Spafford, Nadine Charabin, Bonnie Wagner, Christine Charmbury, and Myrna Williams
Attacking a Canadian supply steamer on the Saskatchewan - Sketch and article. - 23 May 1885.
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
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.
Colonial Categories and Familial Responses to Treaty and Metis Scrip Policy: The 'Edmonton and District Stragglers,' 1870–88
Community and Aboriginality in an Aboriginal Community: Relating to Histories in and of Île-à-la-Crosse
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
Cyprien Morin and His Descendants
Dennis and Jean Fisher Donate Large Collection of Métis-Related Artefacts to Gabriel Dumont Institute
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.Encountering Mary: Apparitions, Roadside Shrines, and the Métis of the Westside
The First Expedition for the Relief of Battleford Attacked by Halfbreeds - Sketch. - 1885.
Fort Walsh Townsite (1875-1883): Early Settlement in the Cypress Hills
From Borderlands to Bordered Lands: The Plains Metis and the 49th Parallel, 1869-1885
From Savagery to Civilization: The Canadian North-West: Its History and Its Troubles from the Early Days ... and the Narrative of Three Insurrections
Fur Trade and Métis Settlements in the Lake Superior Region, 1820-50
Gabriel Dumont (1837-1906) Man of Action
Gabriel Dumont - Portrait
"Les Gens de Cette Place": Oblates and the Evolving Concept of Métis at Île-à-la Crosse, 1845-1898
Glimpses of Métis Society and History in Northwest Saskatchewan
Grandmothers of the Métis Nation: A Living History with Dorothy Chartrand
Historical Archives on the Métis Experience in Northeastern Alberta
Historical Métis Communities in Region One of the Métis Nation of Alberta, 1881-1916
Investigation into whether there was a Métis presence in the Wood Buffalo region uses descriptive narrative records from the Geological Survey of Canada and the Royal Northwest Mounted Police, census data, surnames of enumerated individuals in Fort Chipewyan, Fort McMurray, Lac La Biche, and North West Halfbreed Scrip applications.
A History of Riel's Second Rebellion and How It Was Quelled
The History of the North-West Rebellion of 1885
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.
“I’m Métis, What’s Your Excuse?”: On the Optics and the Ethics of the Misrecognition of Métis in Canada
The Île-à-la-Crosse Cemetary: A Regional Approach
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.
Indigenous Digital Storytelling in Video: Witnessing with Alma Desjarlais
Indigenous Identity and Resistance: Researching the Diversity of Knowledge
L' Insurrection du Nord-Ouest, 1885
[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
Legal Ideology in the Aftermath of Rebellion: The Convicted First Nations Participants, 1885
Looking for Snob Hill and Sq'éwqel: Exploring the Changing Histories of Aboriginality and Community in Two Aboriginal Communities
Louis Riel Addressing Jury in Court House at Regina
Louis Riel and the Creation of Modern Canada: Mythic Discourse and the Postcolonial State
Louis Riel on Trial
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