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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.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
Centering A Métis Grandmothers’ Knowledge: Story of Grandmothers’ Teachings and Métis Child Welfare in B.C.
Central Canada's Patrick Riel: Metis Soldiers, English Canadian Settler Mythmaking, and the First World War
History Thesis (MA) -- University of Regina, 2021.
Commissioners and Women in Mess Tent at Duck Lake
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Commissioners' Mess Tent at Duck Lake
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The Community Conundrum: Metis Critical Perspectives
on the Application of R v Powley in British Columbia
Contesting the Colonial Order on the Canadian Prairies: Government Policy, Indigenous Resistance and the Administration of Treaty 6, 1870-1890
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
Criminal Empire: The Making of the Savage in a Lawless Land
Digital Archives Database Project
Dressing Under Pressure: Métis in kistapinânihk, 1862-1900
Media and Cultural Studies Thesis (MA) -- University of Alberta, 2021.
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.The First Expedition for the Relief of Battleford Attacked by Halfbreeds - Sketch. - 1885.
From New Peoples to New Nations: Aspects of Métis History and Identity from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-first Centuries
From New Peoples to New Nations: Aspects of Métis History and Identity From the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries
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
Governing Metis Indigeneity: The Settler-Colonial Dispossession and Regulation of the Metis in Mid-Twentieth Century Manitoba
Indigenous Thesis (PhD) - University of Alberta, 2021.
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
Health of the Prairie Metis 1900-1960: An Examination of the Social Determinants of Health and Infectious Disease
Native Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Manitoba, 2021.
Hiding in Plain Sight: The Métis Nation
Podcast features researchers from Library and Archives Canada's and the Saint-Boniface Historical Society discussing how their institutions are helping people discover their ancestry and identity.
Duration: 38:24.
A History of Riel's Second Rebellion and How It Was Quelled
The History of the North-West Rebellion of 1885
Hivernant Métis Families, Brigades and Settlements in the Cypress Hills
"Holding Their End Up in Splendid Style": Indigenous People and Canada's First World War
Identifying and Quantifying Métis 'Élite': An Analysis of Relative Wealth, Based on Red River Settlement Censuses of 1835
Identity Crisis
Looks at the controversy over the legitimacy of "Eastern Métis".
Duration: 23:54.
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.
In Between People: The Metis of Central Montana
L' Insurrection du Nord-Ouest, 1885
Introducing Métis People: Taking a Look at Métis People in Canada
Power point and slide notes.
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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Manitoba and Canada's North-West: Founders and Builders
Special issue of Canadian Issues containing articles which focus on the Métis and the formation of Manitoba.