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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Contours of a People: Metis Family, Mobility, and History
Contours of a People: Métis Family, Mobility, and History
Dismantling the Patriarchal Altar From Within
Forgotten Métis
Forgotten: The Métis Residential School Experience
Forgotten: The Métis Residential School Experience: Workshop Guide
Grade 8: Investigating Historical Significanace: A Métis Timeline
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
"Hero of the Half-Breed Rebellion": Gabriel Dumont and Late Victorian Military Masculinity
Historic Métis Settlements in Manitoba and Geographical Place Names
[The Identities of Marie Rose Delorme Smith: Portrait of a Métis Woman, 1861-1960]
Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada: Métis
The Influence of the Hudson's Bay Company in the Exploration and Settlement of the Red River Valley of the North
Jacob Johnston
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Kaa-tipeyimishoyaahk - 'We Are Those Who Own Ourselves': A Political History of Métis Self-Determination in the North-West, 1830-1870
Louis Riel, Justice, and Métis Self-Identification: Literary Politics for Survival in the Evolution of Canadian Nationhood
English Thesis (PhD) -- University of London, 2014.
Louis Riel, Justice and Métis Self-Identification: Literary Politics for Survival in the Evolution of Canadian Nationhood
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 B
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 in Canada: History, Identity, Law and Politics
Métis in Canada: History, Identity, Law & Politics
Metis Pioneers: Marie Rose Delorme Smith and Isabella Clark Hardisty Lougheed
"Métis": Race, Recognition, and the Struggle for Indigenous Peoplehood
Métis Remembrances of Education: Bridging History With Memory
Métis Scrip in Alberta
The Mystery of the Bell
Documentary looks into the disappearance and re-appearance of the 'The Bell of Batoche' which was proported to have been seized by soldiers during the North-West Resistance. Duration: 45:09.
Related Material: Teacher Resource Guide.
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
Pemmican Empire: Food, Trade, and the Last Bison Hunts in the North American Plains, 1760-1882
Place Among the Displaced: Envisioning Preservation of a Métis Settlement in Montana
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.