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Daniels: In and Beyond the Law
All My Relations: Making Kin and Kindred in a Postgenomic World
Ancestry, Genes, and a Colony Chief: Peguis’ People and the Red River Métis
Kinship vs. Race: Reconciling Metis-First Nations Historical Relations
Reflections on Daniels v Canada, Reconciliation and Redress: Setting the Agenda
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Robert Innes
Harold Robinson
Rick Smith
Jessica Kolopenuk
Description
Emphasis on racial distinctions between Métis and First Nations, ignores intermarriage, kinship ties, and shared cultural understandings; recommendations for agenda items for changes in Canada-Indigenous relations in light of the Daniels decision
Duration: 1:50:08.
Presentations are part of the conference "Daniels: In and Beyond the Law" held at University of Alberta, Jan. 26-27, 2017.
Archaeogeophysics and Statistical Analysis at the Buffalo Lake Métis Wintering Site (FdPe-1)
Theses
Author/Creator
Aaron D. Coons
Description
Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alberta, 2017.
An Archival Finding Aid for Primary Source Material on the Métis
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Dennis Madill
Description
General information on using the Public Archives (Ottawa) and list of sources by topic.
Are the Métis Treaty People?
Alternate Title
Weweni Indigenous Scholars Speaker Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Adam Gaudry
Description
Speaker argues that negotiations between the Red River Métis and the Canadian government prior to passage of The Manitoba Act constituted treaty-making.
Duration: 1:04:03.
Au Nom du Bon Dieu et du Buffalo: Métis Lived Catholicism on the Northern Plains
Theses
Author/Creator
Émilie Pigeon
Description
History Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2017.
Beyond the Battlefield: Gabriel Dumont and Métis Leadership (1837-1885)
Theses
Author/Creator
Krystl Dawn Raven
Description
History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2017.
The Community Conundrum: Metis Critical Perspectives
on the Application of R v Powley in British Columbia
Theses
Author/Creator
Karen L. Sloan
Description
Law Thesis (PhD)--University of Victoria, 2016.
Contesting the Colonial Order on the Canadian Prairies: Government Policy, Indigenous Resistance and the Administration of Treaty 6, 1870-1890
Theses
Author/Creator
Melanie Niemi-Bohun
Description
History and Classics Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta, 2016.
Criminal Empire: The Making of the Savage in a Lawless Land
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark
Theory & Event, vol. 19, no. 4, 2016, p. [?]
Description
Looks at how Indigenous resistance in the 19th century was recast as criminal activities.
[Daniels in Context]
Alternate Title
Daniels: In and Beyond the Law
Harry Daniels and the Daniels Case: A Son's Perspective on the Man, His Legacy and Vision for a United Métis Nation
Threading the Constitutional Needle with Sinew of Métisland and Métis
[What Brought It On - and Did We Get What We Wanted?]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Tony Belcourt
Elmer Ghostkeeper
Gabriel Daniels
Maria Campbell
Description
Speakers discuss struggles for Métis rights and recognition which led to Daniels case and the Supreme Court's ruling that Métis and non-Status individuals fall within the definition of "Indian" in section 91(24) of the Constitution Act,1867; Maria Campbell reminisces about leader Harry Daniels, who initiated the court action.
Duration: 1:59:52.
Presentations are part of the conference "Daniels: In and Beyond the Law" held at University of Alberta, Jan. 26-27, 2017.
Declaration of Metis and Indian Rights
Alternate Title
Declaration of Rights: Native Council of Canada--1979
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Native Council of Canada
Description
Outlines the major objectives of the Metis and non-status indigenous people in Canada. Appendices include: Metis National Anthem, Metis petitions for special rights 1845, List of Rights from Metis Provisional Government 1870, Constitutional and Legislative Recognition of Rights of Metis and Non-Status Indians, Metis Petitions, and the Principles of the Metis Movement.
Defining Métis: Catholic Missionaries and the Idea of Civilization in Northwestern Saskatchewan, 1845-1898
E-Books
Author/Creator
Timothy P. Foran
Digital Archives Database
Alternate Title
Métis Digital Archive
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
[Métis Research Lab
University of Ottawa?]
Description
Contains links to thousands of Métis historical documents, personal accounts, genealogical information and Hudson's Bay Company, Census, and Church missionary records.
Digital Archives Database Project
Alternate Title
[Métis] Digital Archives Database Project
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
[Adrienne Fleming
Paul Gareau
Katie Pollock
Joseph Arbour
Tim Foran]
Description
Contains three basic datasets: Sacramental Records from the Great Lakes, Red River, and Great Plains, Censuses, 1827-1870, and western north American fur trade documents, 1793-1858. Much, but not all, of the information relates to the Métis.
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From New Peoples to New Nations: Aspects of Métis History and Identity from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-first Centuries
E-Books
Author/Creator
Gerhard J. Ens
Joe Sawchuk
From New Peoples to New Nations: Aspects of Métis History and Identity From the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Gabrielle Legault
BC Studies, no. 192, Nikkei History, Winter, 2016/2017, pp. 152-153
Description
Book review of: From New Peoples to New Nations by Gerhard J. Ens and Joe Sawchuk.
Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 152.
From New Peoples to New Nations: Aspects of Métis History and Identity from the Eighteenth to Twenty-First Centuries
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Robert L. A. Hancock
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, 2017, pp. 164-166
Description
Book review of From New Peoples to New Nations by Gerhard J. Ens and Joe Sawchuk.
Hiding in Plain Sight: The Métis Nation
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
William Benoit
Janet La France
Description
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.
History of North Dakota
E-Books
Author/Creator
[Elwyn B.] Robinson
Description
"with a new preface and postscript".
Hivernant Métis Families, Brigades and Settlements in the Cypress Hills
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jack Elliot
Description
Attempts to identify the 277 signatories to 1878 petition sent to the North West Territorial government which discussed issues such as reserve land, farming assistance, and games laws concerning buffalo hunting.
"Holding Their End Up in Splendid Style": Indigenous People and Canada's First World War
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Karine Duhamel
Matthew McRae
Manitoba History, no. 82, Fall, 2016, pp. 41-46
Description
Comments on the significance of Indigenous service.
Identifying and Quantifying Métis 'Élite': An Analysis of Relative Wealth, Based on Red River Settlement Censuses of 1835
Alternate Title
A Casualty of Colonialism
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Norma J. Hall
Description
Uses primary source which recorded heads of households, their age, religion, country of origin, martial status, number of offspring, and agricultural data (livestock numbers, kind and number of buildings and number of cultivated acres). Concludes that at that point in time, the socio-economic structure of the Red River Settlement was not necessarily arranged in a hierarchy with a powerful settler élite at its apex.
Identity Crisis
Alternate Title
APTN Investigates
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN)
Todd Lamirande
Kathleen Martens
Melissa Ridgen
Description
Looks at the controversy over the legitimacy of "Eastern Métis".
Duration: 23:54.
J. Z. LaRocque: A Métis Historian’s Account of His Family’s Experiences during the North-West Rebellion of 1885
Alternate Title
Finding Directions West: Readings That Locate and Dislocate Western Canada's Past
The West ; no. 9
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Heather Devine
Description
Discusses Joseph Zépherin LaRocque, born in Lebret, Saskatchewan, who was one of the very few Métis vernacular historians writing in the early 20th century.
Kiya Waneekah: (Don't Forget)
Theses
Author/Creator
Dennis Davey
Description
Native Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba, 2017.
Louis 'David' Riel: "Prophet of the New World"
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
André Lalonde
Prairie Forum, vol. 4, no. 1, Spring, 1979, pp. 149-151
Description
Book review of: Louis 'David' Riel: "Prophet of the New World" by Thomas Flanagan.
Louis Riel: Justice Must Be Done
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Association of Métis and Non-Status Indians of Saskatchewan
Description
Argues for a posthumous pardon of the Metis leader.
Louis Riel: Patriot or Rebel?
Alternate Title
Historical Booklet (Canadian Historical Association); no. 2
E-Books
Author/Creator
George F. G. Stanley
Historical Booklet (Canadian Historical Association)
The Many Worlds of Louis Riel: A Political Odyssey from Red River to Montreal and Back 1840-1875
Theses
Author/Creator
M. Max Hamon
Description
History and Classical Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--McGill University, 2017.
[Mapping Narratives of Métisness and Communities]
Alternate Title
Reconciliation and the Métis Conference [Session Two]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Brenda MacDougall
Mike Evans
Robert Innes
Signa Daum Shanks
Description
MacDougall and Evans discuss their work developing a Métis digital archive database. Innes discusses culturally-mixed bands and cultural similarities of First Nation and Métis peoples. Signa Daum Shanks speaks about using community stories to improve modern community relationships.
Duration: 1:18:18
Métis and the Medicine Line: Creating a Border and Dividing a People
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Chelsea D. Frazier
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 4, no. 1, Spring, 2017, pp. 112-113
Description
Book review of: Métis and the Medicine Line by Michael Hogue.
Métis as Treaty Parties
Alternate Title
Reconciliation and the Métis Conference [Session Four]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Adam Gaudry
Brenda Gunn
Darren O'Toole
Description
Gaudry discusses the concept of Wicihitowin as used to resolve a 19th century conflict between the Métis and the Dakota. Gunn discusses how international law relates to treaties signed with Indigenous peoples in Canada. O'Toole discusses whether Section 31 of The Manitoba Act constituted a treaty.
Duration: 1:52:03.
Métis Dictionary of Biography: Volume H to K
Alternate Title
Metis Dictionary of Biography: Volume H to K
E-Books
The Métis Homeland: Its Settlements and Communities
E-Books
Author/Creator
Lawrence J. Barkwell
Métis Matriarchs
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doris Jeanne Mackinnon
Canada's History, vol. 97, no. 6, December-January 2017-2018, pp. 38-43
Description
Looks at the lives of Bella Hardisty (later Lady Lougheed) and Buckskin Mary (Marie Rose Delorme).
"Métis": Race, Recognition, and the Struggle for Indigenous Peoplehood
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Kelly Saunders
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 40, no. 1, 2016, pp. 216-218
Description
Book review of: "Métis" by Chris Andersen.
Métis-specific Bibliography for the BCcampus Indigenization Project
Alternate Title
BCcampus Indigenization Project
[Indigenization Project: Process Documents and Resources]
Documents & Presentations
Description
Brief list of resources divided into four sections: kinship, land relations, tools and impacts of colonization, calls to action.
A Métis Treaty Through the Lens of International Law
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Brenda L. Gunn
Bryn Rieger
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, 2017, pp. 4-25
Description
Argues that the agreement reached leading up to the Manitoba Act meets requirements for a valid treaty in international law as it was at the time.
[Michif Language Resources: An Annotated Bibliography]
Alternate Title
Anishinaabe / Chippewa / Ojibwe Language Resources: An Annotated Bibliography
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Lawrence Barkwell
Norman Fleury
Description
Material on: culture, history, mythology and language as well as separate sections for scholarly articles and theses, children's books, films, internet resources, music, recordings, curriculum materials, and textbooks.
Monsieur Batoche
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Diane Payment
Saskatchewan History, vol. 32, no. 3, Autumn, 1979, pp. 81-103
Description
Author used government records, correspondence of the Oblats de Marie Immaculée, homestead files, and Métis testimony to illustrate the far reaching influence of the Métis generally, and specifically of the family and community of François-Xavier Letendre dit Batoche in the North West in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Entire issue on one .pdf, scroll to p.81.
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade 5: Unit Scope and Introduction
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
Political Responses
Alternate Title
[Daniels: In and Beyond the Law]
[Métisland: Métis Settlements and the Daniels Decision]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Will Goodon
Gerald Cunningham
Description
President of the Métis Settlements General Council discusses its involvement in the Daniels case and actions of the Council since the decision. Second speaker discusses the political and historical context of the case, analyzes the court's judgement, and suggests possible future actions.
Duration: 1:15:01.
Presentations are part of the conference "Daniels: In and Beyond the Law" held at University of Alberta, Jan. 26-27, 2017.
The Puzzle of the Morrissette-Arcand Clan: A History of Metis Historic and Intergenerational Trauma
Theses
Author/Creator
Jess Thistle
Description
History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Waterloo, 2016.
Racially "Indian", Legally "White": The Canadian State's Struggles to Categorize the Métis, 1850-1900
Theses
Author/Creator
Jennifer Hayter
Description
History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 2017.
Rebuilding Indigenous Nations through Constitutional Development: A Case Study of the Métis in Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Janique Dubois
Kelly Saunders
Nations and Nationalism, February 20, 2017, pp. 1-24
Description
Concludes that the Metis Nation must build legitimacy internally amongst members and externally with the state.
Recollecting: Lives of Aboriginal Women of the Canadian Northwest and Borderlands
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Susan Neylan
BC Studies, no. 189, Summer, 2016, pp. 159-160
Description
Book review of: Recollecting edited by Sarah Carter and Patricia McCormack.
Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 159.
Reconciliation and the Métis of Canada
Alternate Title
Reconciliation and the Métis Conference
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Nicholas Vrooman
Kerry Sloan
Nathalie Kermoal
Description
Presenters discuss Little Shell Tribe of the Chippewa of Montana's struggle for federal recognition, British Columbia Métis' perspectives on harvesting rights, and Canative Housing Corporation located in Edmonton, Alberta.
Duration: 1:31:39.
Reflections of Yesterday & Today
E-Books
Author/Creator
Education Program of the Manitoba Metis Federation
Description
Includes interviews of: Albert Ballantyne, Laddie Ballantyne, Elsie Bear, Doreen Beaupre, Barney Brown, Leonard Budd, Al J.C. Chartrand, Amy Clemons, Lenore Clouston, John Cuthand, Jim Day, Johnny Dietrich, Norman Fleury, Rod Garrick, St.
Rekindling the Sacred Fire: Métis Ancestry and Anishinaabe Spirituality
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Blanca Tovías
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 2, Spring, 2017, p. 146
Description
Book review of: Rekindling the Sacred Fire by Chantal Fiola.
The Relationship of the Catholic Clergy to Métis Society in the Canadian North-West, 1845-1885: With Particular Reference to the South Saskatchewan District
Alternate Title
Manuscript Report (Parks Canada) ; no. 376
E-Books
Author/Creator
J. Brian Dawson
Description
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).