Aboriginal Peoples and Postsecondary Education in Canada
An Archival Finding Aid for Primary Source Material on the Métis
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.Back to Batoche
Blanketing a Nation: Tracing the Social Life of the Hudson's Bay Company Point Blanket Through Canadian Visual Culture
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.
Commissioners and Women in Mess Tent at Duck Lake
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Commissioners' Mess Tent at Duck Lake
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Declaration of Metis and Indian Rights
The Dispersal of the Métis
Finding Home on the Way: Naming the Métis
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
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
Halfbreed: The Remarkable True Story of George Bent-Caught Between the Worlds of the Indian and the White Man
Intersections of Memory, Ancestral Language, and Imagination; or, the Textual Production of Michif Voices as Cultural Weaponry
Jacob Johnston
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Louis 'David' Riel: "Prophet of the New World"
Louis Riel: Justice Must Be Done
Argues for a posthumous pardon of the Metis leader.
Louis Riel: Patriot or Rebel?
[Louis Riel's Part in Metis History and His Legacy in Canadian Culture]
Making the Voyageur World : Travelers and Traders in the North American Fur Trade
The Métis
Chapter 8 in Voices and Visions: A Story of Canada, a Grade 7 Social Studies textbook.
Métis History and Experience and Residential Schools in Canada
Métis Identity: Sharing Traditional Knowledge and Healing Practices at Métis Elders' Gatherings
Métis Killed During the 1885 Resistance
The Métis Nation and Métis Aboriginal Rights
Research paper discusses history and legal aspects of rights in relation to the Powley case.
Related Material: Fact Sheet.
Métissage in New France: Frenchification, Mixed Marriages and Métis as Shaped by Social and Political Agents and Institutions 1508-1886
Monsieur Batoche
On the St. Paul Trail in the Sixties
The People Who Own Themselves: Aboriginal Ethnogenesis in a Canadian Family, 1660-1900
Potlucks, Bingo and Roadtrips: The Prince George Métis Elders Oral History Video Project
Reflections of Yesterday & Today
The Relationship of the Catholic Clergy to Métis Society in the Canadian North-West, 1845-1885: With Particular Reference to the South Saskatchewan District
Discusses five important missions: - Lac Ste-Anne, St-Albert, St-Laurent de Grandin, St-Antoine de Padoue (at Batoche) and St-Jean-Baptiste (at Ile à la Crosse).
Reluctant Homesteader: A French Settler’s Story
Reluctant Homesteader: A French Settler’s Story, Part One
Reviews
"Riel Project Bulletin"
A Sitting of the Commission
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