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Alberta's North: A History, 1890-1950
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
Confronting the "Mixed-Blood Majic": Towards a Definition of "Métis" for Purposes of Section 35
Constructing a Legal Land System That Supports Economic Development For the Metis in Alberta
Les Desjarlais: Aboriginal Ethnogenesis and Diaspora in a Canadien Family
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.
Métis Law in Canada, 2010
Metis Legacy: A Metis Historiography and Annotated Bibliography, Pt. 3: Annotated Bibliography and References
Métis Self and Identity: The Search to Contribute a Verse
Integrated Studies Project (M.A.)--Athabasca University, 2010.
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Metis Studies: The Development of a Field and New Directions
Métis Veterans: Remembrances
A Mother and Father of Pembina: A NWC Voyageur Meets the Granddaughter of The Buffaloe
Highlights the life of a North West Company voyageur and his Indigenous wife that bore Métis children.
A New Look at Louis Riel Through His Visionary Experiences
On the St. Paul Trail in the Sixties
"Practical Results": the Riel Statue Controversy at the Manitoba Legislative Building
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'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
The Road to the Rapids: Nineteenth-Century Church and Society at St Andrew's Parish, 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.