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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.
The Archibald Administration in Manitoba - 1870-1872
Bannock as Medicine
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
Cyprien Morin and His Descendants
Encountering Mary: Apparitions, Roadside Shrines, and the Métis of the Westside
Fifty HIstorical Vignettes: Views of the Common People
Flags of the Métis
Fort Walsh Townsite (1875-1883): Early Settlement in the Cypress Hills
Foster Child
From Borderlands to Bordered Lands: The Plains Metis and the 49th Parallel, 1869-1885
The Fur Trade and Western Canadian Society 1670-1870
The Giant
Glimpses of Métis Society and History in Northwest Saskatchewan
Grandmothers of the Métis Nation: A Living History with Dorothy Chartrand
Historic Métis Settlements in Manitoba and Geographical Place Names
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.
Home from the Hill: A History of Métis in Western Canada
2nd edition.
The Île-à-la-Crosse Cemetary: A Regional Approach
Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada: Métis
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 and the Creation of Modern Canada: Mythic Discourse and the Postcolonial State
Louis Riel Trial (1885)
Website contains links to trial transcript, chronology, selected maps, biography, and letters and diary entries introduced as evidence.
The Métis and the Social Sciences
Métis Dictionary of Biography: Volume E to G
Métis Dictionary of Biography: Volume L
Métis Dictionary of Biography: Volume N to P
Métis Dictionary of Biography: Volume T to Z
Métis Families and Schools: The Decline and Reclamation of Métis Identities in Saskatchewan, 1885-1980
Métis Identity: A Personal Perspective
The Métis in the Canadian West
Métis Land Claims at St. Laurent: Old Arguments and New Evidence
Metis Pioneers: Marie Rose Delorme Smith and Isabella Clark Hardisty Lougheed
Métis Scrip in Alberta
Métis Welfare: A History of Economic Exchange in Northwest Saskatchewan, 1770-1870
Métis Women: Social Structure, Urbanization and Political Activism, 1850-1980
Native Judgments: John Bunn and the General Quarterly Court in Red River
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.
Open to Interpretation: Métis Histories at the Royal Alberta Museum
Order Up! The Decolonizing Politics of Howard Adams and Maria Campbell with a Side of Imagining Otherwise
“L’Origine des Canards Gris”: Conte Folklorique Metis et/ou Etude en Sociologie Popularie
People of the River: Mixed-Blood Families on the Lower Missouri
Reconsidering Confederation: Canada's Founding Debates, 1864 - 1999
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Chapter Two: Compact, Contract, Covenant: The Evolution of First Nations Treaty-Making by J.R. Miller.
Chapter Six: Resisting Canada’s Will: Manitoba’s Entry into Confederation by Robert Wardhaugh and Barry Ferguson.
Chapter Eleven: “A More Accurate Face on Canada to the World”: The Creation of Nunavut by P. Whitney Lackenbauer and Andr&ecaute Légaré.