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.Bannock as Medicine
Commissioners and Women in Mess Tent at Duck Lake
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Commissioners' Mess Tent at Duck Lake
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The Ermatingers: A 19th Century Ojibwa-Canadian Family
Ethnogenesis of the Metis, Cree and Chippewa in Twentieth Century Montana
Father Louis Pierre Gravel and the Settlement of the Gravelbourg Area
Francophone Settlement in the Gravelbourg Block Settlement and Francophone and Métis Settlement in the Willow Bunch Block Settlement in Southwestern Saskatchewan, 1870--1926
Frontier Era of North Dakota
Grade 4 level.
Furrows of Stone: Race, Politics, and the Alberta Métis Land Question, 1932-1936
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
Historic Métis Settlements in Manitoba and Geographical Place Names
Hybrid Identities in Canada's Red River Colony
Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada: Métis
Jacob Johnston
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Lecture of Early Metis History, 1675-1854
Living with Strangers: The Nineteenth-Century Sioux and the Canadian-American Borderlands
Living With Strangers: The Nineteenth-Century Sioux and the Canadian-American Borderlands
The Long Journey of a Forgotten People: Métis Identities and Family Histories
Louis Riel and Sitting Bull's Sioux: Three Lost Letter's
Louis Riel : Firebrand
Louis Riel Trial (1885)
Website contains links to trial transcript, chronology, selected maps, biography, and letters and diary entries introduced as evidence.
Métis Dictionary of Biography: Volume E to G
Métis Dictionary of Biography: Volume L
Métis Dictionary of Biography: Volume N to P
Métis Dictionary of Biography: Volume T to Z
Métis Land Settlement at Willow Bunch, Saskatchewan, 1840-1910
Metis Pioneers: Marie Rose Delorme Smith and Isabella Clark Hardisty Lougheed
Métis Scrip in Alberta
More On One Arrow, the Métis and Canadian History
Natives and Settlers Now and Then: Historical Issues and Current Perspectives on Treaties and Land Claims in Canada
A New Nation: The Métis
Chapter 9 of People and Stories of Canada to 1867 by Michele Visser-Wikkerink and E. Leigh Syms. Recommended by Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth as a Manitoba Grade 5 Social Studies learning resource.
On the St. Paul Trail in the Sixties
Open History Seminar: Canadian History
Collection of primary and secondary sources suitable for use at secondary and post-secondary levels. Can be used to supplement Canadian History: Pre-Confederation and Canadian History: Post-Confederation.
Order Up! The Decolonizing Politics of Howard Adams and Maria Campbell with a Side of Imagining Otherwise
Reconsidering Confederation: Canada's Founding Debates, 1864 - 1999
See:
Chapter Two: Compact, Contract, Covenant: The Evolution of First Nations Treaty-Making by J.R. Miller.
Chapter Six: Resisting Canada’s Will: Manitoba’s Entry into Confederation by Robert Wardhaugh and Barry Ferguson.
Chapter Eleven: “A More Accurate Face on Canada to the World”: The Creation of Nunavut by P. Whitney Lackenbauer and Andr&ecaute Légaré.
"The Rights to the Land May Be Transferred": Archival Records as Colonial Text - A Narrative of Metis Scrip
Rooster Town: The History of an Urban Métis Community, 1901-1961
A Sitting of the Commission
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