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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.Battle of Batoche Remembered 125 Years Later
Celebrating the Year of the Métis: Junior
Commissioners and Women in Mess Tent at Duck Lake
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Commissioners' Mess Tent at Duck Lake
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A Compendium of Aboriginal Healing Foundation Research
Correspondence and Papers Connected with Recent Occurrences in the North-West Territories
Correspondence Relative to the Recent Disturbances in the Red River Settlement
The Exceptional-Typical History of a Métis Elder in Fort St. John
Exiled, Executed, Exalted: Louis Riel, Homo Sacer and the Production of Canadian Sovereignty
Final Report on Métis Education and Boarding School Literature and Sources Review
The Flemish Bastard and the Former Indians: Métis and Identity in Seventeenth-Century New York
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
A History of the Legislative Assembly of Assiniboia / Le Conseil du Gouvernenment Provisoire
Icelandic Immigrants and First Nations People in Canada
Jacob Johnston
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The Long Journey of a Forgotten People: Métis Identities and Family Histories
Louis Riel (1844-1885)
Manitoba Metis Federation
May Tea? : The Construction of Metis identity in 20th Century Penetanguishene and Ontario
Student Research Project (MA) -- Nipissing University, 2010.
Les memoires de Louis Schmidt. 8 Juin 1911.
Métis Law in Canada, 2010
Métis Self and Identity: The Search to Contribute a Verse
Integrated Studies Project (M.A.)--Athabasca University, 2010.
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Métis Veterans: Remembrances
New Nation [Newspaper]
"The New Nation was published weekly from January 7, 1870 to September 3, 1870. Formed by the merger of the Red River Pioneer with the Nor'Wester, it was an organ of the provisional government headed by Louis Riel. It reported in great detail the debates and discussions of the provisional government."
On the St. Paul Trail in the Sixties
Provisional Government of Assiniboia: Acknowledging the Contribution of Original North American Peoples to the Creation of Manitoba
Recalling Traditional Métis Christmas and New Year's Celebrations
Red River Insurrection: Hon. Wm. McDougall's Conduct Reviewed
The Red River Insurrection: Three Letters and a Narrative of Events
The Red River Rebellion: Eight Letters to Hon. Joseph Howe, Secretary of State for the Provinces, etc., in Reply to an Official Pamphlet by Hon.W.M. MacDougall, C.B., The Minister of Public Works and Commissioner to the Lieutenant-Governor of Rupert's Land and the North-West Territories
Response to 66-page pamphlet entitled Red River Insurrection: Hon. Wm. McDougall's Conduct Reviewed.
The Red River Rebellion: The Cause of It in a Series of Letters to the British Government on the Importance of Opening the Overland Route through Rupert's Land ...
Red River's Anglophone Community: The Conflicting Views of John Christian Schultz and Alexander Begg
Discusses how the two men's writings illustrate the two views points about the best option for Red River settlement's future: those who were in favour of annexation by Canada and those who felt that it would not be in the settlement's best interests since terms and conditions of it's future would be dictated by eastern Canadians.
Report by Lieut. William F. Butler (69th Regt.) of His Journey from Fort Garry to Rocky Mountain House and Back, During the Winter of 1870-71. to Hon. Adams G. Archibald Lieut. Gov. Manitoba, 10th March, 1871.
Excerpt from The Great Lone Land, originally published in 1873.
Researching Your Métis Ancestors in Ontario: Standards and Sources
Riel and Advisors at Red River
A Sitting of the Commission
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A Son of the Fur Trade: The Memoirs of Johnny Grant
Spy Mission: The Trouble at Red River
Role playing game which involves John A. Macdonald asking students to become spies and send information back to the government. Suitable for Grades 5-11.