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Aboriginal Peoples and Postsecondary Education in Canada
Are the Métis Treaty People?
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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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
Criminal Empire: The Making of the Savage in a Lawless Land
Digital Archives Database Project
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
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
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
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.
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.
Intersections of Memory, Ancestral Language, and Imagination; or, the Textual Production of Michif Voices as Cultural Weaponry
Jacob Johnston
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[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
[Mapping Narratives of Métisness and Communities]
The Métis
Chapter 8 in Voices and Visions: A Story of Canada, a Grade 7 Social Studies textbook.
Métis as Treaty Parties
Métis Dictionary of Biography: Volume H to K
Métis History and Experience and Residential Schools in Canada
The Métis Homeland: Its Settlements and Communities
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.
"Métis": Race, Recognition, and the Struggle for Indigenous Peoplehood
Book review of: "Métis" by Chris Andersen.