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1885 Canadian Pacific Railway Telegrams
1885 / Fur Trade - 1970-1985. - Folder 2.
Aboriginal Peoples and Postsecondary Education in Canada
The Absent Protagonist: Louis Riel in Nineteenth-Century Canadian Literature
Looks at the lack of acknowledgment of Riel being a Métis by English-speaking nor French-speaking writers.
Attacking the State: The Levying War Charge in Canadian Treason Law
Batoche Dinner - Royal Regiment of Canada - Toronto, ON
Battleford Remembers Stockade Days
Beardy and His Chiefs, N.W. Rebellion
Beardy Not Given Proper Recognition
Historical overview of Willow Cree Chief Kamiscowesit's (or Beardy's) role in the North West Resistance and the negotiations of Treaty 6. Alternate spellings include: Kamayistowesit, Kamdyistowesit.
Beyond the Battlefield: Gabriel Dumont and Métis Leadership (1837-1885)
Big Bear
Big Bear at Stony Mountain Penitentiary
Blackfeet at Earnscliffe
Book Review
Book Reviews
Canada and the Métis, 1869-1885
The Cast[e]ing of Heroic Landscapes of Power: Constructing Canada's Pantheon on Parliament Hill
'The Catholic Mahdi of the North West': Louis Riel and the Metis Resistance in Transatlantic and Imperial Context
Chakikum (Splashing Water) - Portrait
Historical note:
Chakikum (Splashing Water) of the Willow Cree Band, returned to Canada after a ten-year exile in the United States, when the Canadian government offered an amnesty to participants in the North West Rebellion.Chapter XVI -- "An Indian Murder Case"
Chief Big Bear of the Plains Cree
Chief One Arrows Spirit Returns Home to People
Chief Pakan
Chief Red Pheasant Aiding Escape of Indian Officials
Colonel Otter Attacking the rebels at Cut Knife Hill, North-West Territory - Sketch. - 1885.
Historical note:
On 2 May 1885 Lieutenant Colonel William Otter was defeated by Poundmaker's war chief Fine-Day at the Battle of Cut Knife near Battleford, SK. A flying column of Canadian militia and army regulars was defeated by Poundmaker despite their use of a Gatling gun.Comite / Riel-Ritchot de Saint-Norbert.
Copy of screened portrait of Fine Day
The Creation of Manitoba; or, A History of the Red River Troubles
Cree Chiefs from Crooked Lake
A Critical Bond: Cultural Transmission and Nation-Building in Métis and Chicana/o Picture Books
Crowfoot, Chief of the Blackfeet Indians
The Diaries of Louis Riel
Diefenbaker at Batoche cemetery
Dr. A.B. Stewart Papers - Miscellaneous. - n.d..
Historical note:
Dr. A.B. Stewart acted as coroner for the Royal North West Mounted Police and had a medical practice at Rosthern, Saskatchewan in the late 1800s-early 1900s.Dr. A.B. Stewart Papers - Napoleon Venne Correspondence. - 1923-1924.
Historical note:
Early Printing in the Red River Settlement, 1859-1870, and It's Effect on the Riel Rebellion
The Early West
Exoneration for Louis Riel: Mercy, Justice, or Political Expediency?
F. Beverley Robertson: The Tragic Life of Poundmaker's Defence Counsel
The Face Pullers: Ch. 1 Images - Big Bear 1825-88
The Face Pullers: Ch. 1 Images - North-West Rebellion Participants from Both Sides
Photograph of a group of participants in the Northwest Resistance, from both sides. Left to Right: Constable Black, Louis Cochin, Inspector R.B.Deane, Alexis Andre, Beverly Robertson, Horse Child, Big Bear, Alexander Stewart, Poundmaker. From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
The False Traitor: Louis Riel in Canadian Literature
Final Trial Statement & Subsequent Renounciation of Louis Riel: Final Statement of Louis Riel at His Trial in Regina
Fine Day
Fine Day on horseback
The First Shot Rang Out
Website for virtual exhibit centred on the Battle of Duck Lake, the first armed engagement of the North West Resistance. Includes links to 110 images, the story of the battle from the differing perspectives of the museum, the Métis, civilians and military, and First Nations and brief biographies of Gabriel Dumont, Louis Riel, Hillyard Mitchell, L.N.F. Crozier, and Acheson Gosford Irvine.
Fred Horse Interview 2
Free the North / Gabriel Dumont Armed - Photograph. - [197-].
Historical note:
Original photograph from the Public Archives of Canada. Cited as a CUS Poster, 197-. [Possibly a political poster produced by the Canadian Union of Students].