Louis Riel Day Race
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Images of the 10 July 1977 Louis Riel Days horse and running race in Saskatoon. Four negatives were scanned for this database.
Historical note:
Historical note:
First printed in The Illustrated War News, 1885.Comments on Métis and First Nations people joining together to oppose a pipeline project in British Columbia.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.8.
Historical note:
Michel Dumais, prominent South Branch Metis. Dumais was one of the delegates sent to retrieve Riel from Montana in 1884 along with Gabriel Dumont and James Isbister. He was farm instructor at the One Arrow Cree Reserve until 1885. After fighting in the Resistance he fled to Montana alongside Gabriel Dumont.