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1885: Rebellion or Resistance?
Explains why the Metis prefer to use the word resistance to describe the conflicts labelled as the Red River Rebellion and North West Rebellion by the Canadian government and press.
Aboriginal Peoples in the Superior-Greenstone Region: An Informational Handbook for Staff and Parents
An Absolutely Uncritical Look at What Has Been Written About the Métis.
Speech given at the1885 and After Conference held in Saskatoon in 1985 looks at historical ideologies regarding Métis culture in a contemporary context.
Actor Donald Sutherland Featured in Five-Hour 'Riel Commission' - Press release. - 16 April 1985.
Aspects of Canadian Metis History
The Buffalo Hunt
Changes Come to the Canadian Prairies
Focuses on the numbered treaties and their effect on First Nations and the Métis, and the causes and impacts of the North-West Resistance. Intended for Grade 10 Social Studies students.
Chapter from Horizons: Canada's Emerging Identity, 2nd Edition, by Michael Cranny.
Changing Times
Overview of Métis history from the 1840s to 1875. Discusses the collapse of the buffalo hunting economy, the establishment of the community of St. Laurent, passing of laws to establish order, and the arrival of the North West Mounted Police.
Includes questions for students.
Colonial Categories and Familial Responses to Treaty and Metis Scrip Policy: The 'Edmonton and District Stragglers,' 1870–88
Community and Aboriginality in an Aboriginal Community: Relating to Histories in and of Île-à-la-Crosse
Conflicting Plans
2nd edition.
Contours of a People: Metis Family, Mobility, and History
Contours of a People: Métis Family, Mobility, and History
Contrasting Worlds
Overview of Métis history from the 1600s to the early 1870s when many Métis migrated from Manitoba to Saskatchewan. Includes questions for students.
2nd edition.
Copy of the Document Sent to French Representatives by French People, Red River Settlement, 29 November 1869
Letter signed by 95 people states opposition to Louis Riel's proposal for establishment of a provisional government.
The Crutwell AMNSIS Local #66 recieve Ball Diamond Funds
Cyprien Morin and His Descendants
Dismantling the Patriarchal Altar From Within
Encountering Mary: Apparitions, Roadside Shrines, and the Métis of the Westside
Ending an Era
Forgotten Métis
Forgotten: The Métis Residential School Experience
Forgotten: The Métis Residential School Experience: Workshop Guide
Fort Walsh Townsite (1875-1883): Early Settlement in the Cypress Hills
From Borderlands to Bordered Lands: The Plains Metis and the 49th Parallel, 1869-1885
Gabriel Dumont
Gabriel Dumont: Métis Legend
Brief video discusses the life of the Metis leader and his role in the 1885 Resistance. Duration: 7:25.
Related Material: Transcript; Teacher's Guide.
Glimpses of Métis Society and History in Northwest Saskatchewan
Grade 8: Investigating Historical Significanace: A Métis Timeline
Grandmothers of the Métis Nation: A Living History with Dorothy Chartrand
"Hero of the Half-Breed Rebellion": Gabriel Dumont and Late Victorian Military Masculinity
Historical Archives on the Métis Experience in Northeastern Alberta
Historical Métis Communities in Region One of the Métis Nation of Alberta, 1881-1916
Investigation into whether there was a Métis presence in the Wood Buffalo region uses descriptive narrative records from the Geological Survey of Canada and the Royal Northwest Mounted Police, census data, surnames of enumerated individuals in Fort Chipewyan, Fort McMurray, Lac La Biche, and North West Halfbreed Scrip applications.
[The Identities of Marie Rose Delorme Smith: Portrait of a Métis Woman, 1861-1960]
The Île-à-la-Crosse Cemetary: A Regional Approach
The Influence of the Hudson's Bay Company in the Exploration and Settlement of the Red River Valley of the North
Kaa-tipeyimishoyaahk - 'We Are Those Who Own Ourselves': A Political History of Métis Self-Determination in the North-West, 1830-1870
Legal Ideology in the Aftermath of Rebellion: The Convicted First Nations Participants, 1885
Looking for Snob Hill and Sq'éwqel: Exploring the Changing Histories of Aboriginality and Community in Two Aboriginal Communities
Louis Riel
Louis Riel: A Bibliography
Louis Riel: A Bibliography
Louis Riel and the Creation of Modern Canada: Mythic Discourse and the Postcolonial State
Louis Riel, Justice and Métis Self-Identification: Literary Politics for Survival in the Evolution of Canadian Nationhood
Louis Riel, Justice, and Métis Self-Identification: Literary Politics for Survival in the Evolution of Canadian Nationhood
English Thesis (PhD) -- University of London, 2014.
Many Tender Ties
Meeting at St. Boniface--Desire of the French to Retain the Troops
Minutes of the meeting containing four motions expressing confidence in Donald Smith, Member of Parliament and requesting that troops continue to be stationed at St. Boniface.