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Aboriginal Peoples and Postsecondary Education in Canada
Analysis of the MNO's Recognition of Six New Historic Métis Communities: A Final Report
Examines main research reports used in the recognition process for: Mattawa/Ottawa River; Killarney; Georgian Bay; Abitibi-Inland; Rainy Lake/Lake of the Woods; and Northern Lake Superior communities.
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.
Digital Storytelling in Indigenous Education: Decolonizing Journey for a Métis Community
The Dispersal of the Métis
Education for Reconciliation: Métis Professional Learning
Meant to educate people about who the Métis are, where they come from, and where they live today in British Columbia. First part focuses on identity and its importance; second part focuses on contemporary life.
Explore Presents the Hudson's Bay Company: Part 1: Waskaganish
Podcast series about the history of the company.
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
Glimpses into the Laws and Governance of the Historic Métis Nation
Halfbreed: The Remarkable True Story of George Bent-Caught Between the Worlds of the Indian and the White Man
Heart Work: Weaving Relationality into Métis Material Culture Repatriation
Heirs of an Ambivalent Empire : French-Indigenous Relations And the Rise of the Métis in the Hudson Bay Watershed
Historic Metis Communities of Ontario: An Evaluation of Evidence
Examines documents used to support three communities' assertion that they should be considered part of the Métis nation. They are: historic Georgian Bay Métis community; historic Mattawa Métis community; and historic Sault Ste Marie Métis community.
History of Métis Lands in Alberta
In Good Relation: History, Gender, and Kinship in Indigenous Feminisms
Intersections of Memory, Ancestral Language, and Imagination; or, the Textual Production of Michif Voices as Cultural Weaponry
Island Métis K-12 Resources Project: A Living Document of Métis Resources and History for Students and Teachers
Lists illustrated bboks, novels, videos, DVDs & film, short story/creative writing, and non-fiction for primary, intermediate, secondary grades.
Jean Baptiste Cadotte's First Family: Genealogical Summary
Cadotte (sometimes spelt Cadot) was a prominent figure in the Lake Superior fur trade and married two Ojibwe women, Athanasie and Catherine. These articles focus on the children of Athanasie, also known as Equawaice, part of the Bullhead Catfish clan.
Compilation of three articles which appeared in Michigan's Habitant Heritage in 2020-2021.
Jean Baptiste Cadotte's Second Family: Genealogical Summary
Cadotte (sometimes spelt Cadot) was a prominent figure in the Lake Superior fur trade and married two Ojibwe women, Athanasie and Catherine. These articles focus on the children of Catherine, whom he married in the custom of the country.
Compilation of four articles which appeared in Michigan's Habitant Heritage in 2015-2016.
Related: Jean Baptiste Cadotte's First Family.
[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
The Métis
Chapter 8 in Voices and Visions: A Story of Canada, a Grade 7 Social Studies textbook.
Métis Culture & Traditions: Métis Foundational Knowledge Theme
Métis History and Experience and Residential Schools in Canada
Métis Identity: Sharing Traditional Knowledge and Healing Practices at Métis Elders' Gatherings
Métis in Alberta: Foundational Knowledge Theme
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 Nation Governance: Métis Foundational Knowledge Theme
Métis Rising: Living Our Present Through the Power of Our Past
[The Métis Sash]: Lesson Plan
For use with Grades 4-9.
[Métis Scrip]: Lesson Plan
Designed for Grades 4-9.
[Métis Scrip]: Lesson Plan
Designed for Grades 10-12.
Métissage in New France: Frenchification, Mixed Marriages and Métis as Shaped by Social and Political Agents and Institutions 1508-1886
“My ancestors would be proud of us”: Métis Women and 2SLGBTQQIA+ People’s Housing Histories, Experiences, Struggles, and Perspectives
Sources of information include survey, conversational interviews, document analysis and literature reviews.
[Oral History Lesson Plan]
Created for Grade 4.
Paykiiwikay Métis Culture [Podcast]
Guests discusses a variety of topics related to Métis culture . Interviews are approximately 30 minutes long.
The People Who Own Themselves: Aboriginal Ethnogenesis in a Canadian Family, 1660-1900
Potlucks, Bingo and Roadtrips: The Prince George Métis Elders Oral History Video Project
The Priest Who Shaped a Province
Focuses on the role played by Abbe Noël-Joseph Ritchot during the events surrounding the Red River Resistance and the subsequent formation of the province of Manitoba.
Reluctant Homesteader: A French Settler’s Story
Reluctant Homesteader: A French Settler’s Story, Part One
Reviews
Road Allowance Era
Excerpt from graphic novel focuses on the trial and execution of Louis Riel.
"Uncorrected Advance Reading Copy."
A Selkirk Settlement Sourcebook
Compilation of primary sources.