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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TransCanadiana, vol. 8, Canadian Sites of Resistance: Solidarity-Struggle=Change(?), 2016, pp. [25]-51
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Highlights some of the most important facts in the history of Métis resistance consulting both historiographic accounts and literary texts.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 25.
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.
TransCanadiana, vol. 8, Canadian Sites of Resistance: Solidarity-Struggle-Change(?), 2016, pp. [73]-80
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The Reader gathers texts with differing perspectives to narrate the "battle" between armed settlers and armed Métis buffalo hunters on June 19th, 1816.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 73.
Prairie Forum, vol. 19, no. 1, Spring, 1994, pp. 1-13
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Explains how "wintering" fur traders led to social relationships between the traders and Aboriginal people, which in turn formed the Western Plains Métis.
Ethnohistory, vol. 63, no. 3, July 2016, pp. 519-540
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Looks at the Battle of Seven Oaks between a coalition of Métis and North West Company forces and a party of Scottish settlers and Hudson's Bay Company personnel.