Alternate Title
National Household Survey, 2011
Data » Tables
Author/Creator
Statistics Canada
Description
Statistical table.
NHS Aboriginal Population Profile, Regina, CMA [Census Metropolitan Area], Saskatchewan, 2011
Alternate Title
National Household Survey, 2011
Data » Tables
Author/Creator
Statistics Canada
Description
Statistical table.
NHS Aboriginal Population Profile, Saskatoon, CMA [Census Metropolitan Area], Saskatchewan, 2011
Alternate Title
National Household Survey, 2011
Data » Tables
Author/Creator
Statistics Canada
Description
Statistical table.
NHS Aboriginal Population Profile, Swift Current, CA [Census Agglomeration], Saskatchewan, 2011
Alternate Title
National Household Survey, 2011
Data » Tables
Author/Creator
Statistics Canada
Description
Statistical table.
NHS Aboriginal Population Profile, Yorkton, CA [Census Agglomeration], Saskatchewan, 2011
Alternate Title
National Household Survey, 2011
Data » Tables
Author/Creator
Statistics Canada
Description
Statistical table.
“No Other Weapon Except Organization”: The Métis Association of Alberta and the 1938 Metis Population Betterment Act
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nicole C. O’Byrne
Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, vol. 24, no. 2, 2013, pp. 311-352
Description
Discusses the act that provided for Métis land settlements.
North America in the 21st Century: Tribal, Local, and Global
Alternate Title
North America in the Twenty-First Century
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Bruce E. Johansen
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 197-199
Description
Book review of: North America in the 21st Century edited by Kerstin Knopf.
Review located by scrolling to page 197.
The North-West Rebellion, 1885: A Memoir by Colour Sergeant (Later General) C.F. Winters
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
C.F. Winters
Saskatchewan History, vol. 35, no. 1, Winter, 1982, pp. 1-16
Description
The archived text of General Winter’s lecture “North-West Canada, 1885:--the Regiment’s first experience of Active Service in the field” which he delivered on numerous occasions.
entire issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 1.
Offering our Gifts, Partnering for Change: Decolonizing Experimentation in Winnipeg-based Settler Archives
Theses
Author/Creator
Sarah Story
Description
History-Archival Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba, 2017.
The One-and-A-Half Men
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
A. S. Lussier
Prairie Forum, vol. 7, no. 1, Spring, 1982, pp. 146-147
Description
Book review of: The One-and-A-Half Men by Murray Dobbin.
The Ontario First Nation, Métis, and Inuit Education Policy Framework: A Case Study on its Impact
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laura-Lee Kearns
In Education, vol. 19, no. 2, [Indigenous Education] in Education, Pt. 1, Autumn, 2013, pp. 86-106
Description
Looks at what impact the Aboriginal education program initiatives have had on participants, professionally, academically, and personally.
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade 5: Unit Scope and Introduction
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
"Our Next Generation": Moving Towards a Surveillance and Prevention Framework for Youth Suicide in Saskatchewan First Nations and Métis Populations
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Caroline L. Tait
Peter Butt
Robert Henry
Roger Bland
Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health, vol. 36, no. 1, 2017, pp. 55-65
Description
Report reviews suicide data for Saskatchewan's Indigenous populations.
An Overview of Aboriginal Health in Canada
Alternate Title
Setting the Context
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
National Collaborating Centre For Aboriginal Health (NCCAH)
Description
Fact sheet looks at the social, economic and political determinants impacting health, policies and programs for First Nations, Inuit and Métis people.
Parents as First Teachers: A Resource Booklet about How Children Learn for First Nations and Métis Parents in BC
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health (NCCAH)
First Nations Health Authority
Description
Provides information on culture and knowledge about early learning and lists services available to assist families.
"People Try and Label Me as Someone I'm Not": The Social Ecology of Indigenous People Living with HIV, Stigma, and Discrimination in Manitoba, Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Roberta L. Woodgate
Melanie Zurba
Pauline Tennent
Carla Cochrane
Mike Payne
Javier Mignone
Social Science & Medicine, vol. 194, December 2017, pp. 17-24
Description
Based on study that looked at barriers such as access to supports and long and short-term health services.
"The People Who Own Themselves": Recognition of Métis Identity in Canada: Report of the Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Vernon White
Lillian Eva Dyck
Lynn Beyak
Jacques Demers
Marjory LeBreton ... [et al.]
Description
Provides background information relevant to identity, summary of evidence heard, and committee's key observations and recommendations to the federal government. Includes seven community profiles.
Perceptions of the Métis and Tuberculosis: An Examination of Historical Works
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Velvet Maud
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 33, no. 2, 2013, pp. 55-70
Description
Findings revealed historical writings that perpetuated stereotypes contributed to elevated disease rates.
Placement Decisions and Disparities Among Aboriginal Children: Further Analysis of the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect Part A: Comparisons of the 1998 and 2003 Surveys
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Barbara Fallon
Martin Chabot
John Fluke
Cindy Blackstock
Bruce MacLaurin ... [et al.]
Child Abuse & Neglect, vol. 37, Special Issue on Risk and Resilience in the Context of Child Maltreatment (Part 1), 2013, pp. 47-60
Description
Study results reveal that the higher the proportion of investigations of Aboriginal children, the more likely placement would occur.
Plan For 2012-13: Ministry of First Nations and Métis Relations
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ministry of First Nations and Métis Relations
Description
Annual report outlining strategies and actions for economic development, well-being for northern residents and children, land claim obligations and improvements to programs and services.
Political Responses
Alternate Title
[Daniels: In and Beyond the Law]
[Métisland: Métis Settlements and the Daniels Decision]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Will Goodon
Gerald Cunningham
Description
President of the Métis Settlements General Council discusses its involvement in the Daniels case and actions of the Council since the decision. Second speaker discusses the political and historical context of the case, analyzes the court's judgement, and suggests possible future actions.
Duration: 1:15:01.
Presentations are part of the conference "Daniels: In and Beyond the Law" held at University of Alberta, Jan. 26-27, 2017.
Postcard From the 2016 Yukon Election
Articles » General
Author/Creator
David Roddick
Northern Public Affairs, vol. 5, no. 1, Food (In)security in Northern Canada, April 2017, pp. 63-68
Description
Contends that the new Liberal government needs to make renewed investment for intergovernmental relationships with First Nations.
Predictors of Obesity Among Métis Children: Socio-economic, Behavioural and Cultural Factors
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Martin J. Cooke
Piotr Wilk
Kenneth W. Paul
Shelley L. H. Gonneville
Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 104, no. 4, July/August 2013, pp. e298-e303
Description
Looks at household structure and income, parental education, food insecurity, language, cultural activities and parental residential school attendance as factors predicting obesity.
Progress Report 2013, Health Care Renewal in Canada
E-Books
Author/Creator
Health Council of Canada
Description
Aboriginal information p. 32-37.
A Psychoeducational Manual for Counselling Alberta's Aboriginal Youth
Theses
Author/Creator
Christie-Dawn Ladouceur
Description
Education Thesis (MC)--University of Lethbridge, 2013.
Racially "Indian", Legally "White": The Canadian State's Struggles to Categorize the Métis, 1850-1900
Theses
Author/Creator
Jennifer Hayter
Description
History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 2017.
Rebuilding Indigenous Nations through Constitutional Development: A Case Study of the Métis in Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Janique Dubois
Kelly Saunders
Nations and Nationalism, February 20, 2017, pp. 1-24
Description
Concludes that the Metis Nation must build legitimacy internally amongst members and externally with the state.
Recollections and Reminiscences: A Memoir
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
F.A.D. Bourke
Saskatchewan History, vol. 35, no. 2, Spring, 1982, pp. 55-56
Description
Memoir of Fredrick Arthur Deane Bourke who joined the NWMP in 1877 and was posted at Fort Walsh, and later in Battleford; Bourke retired from the police force and with a partner bought 80 head of cattle and took up cattle ranching. Notes that in 1877 the buffalo were plentiful and after that they vanished from the plain.
Entire issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 55.
Recollections and Reminiscences: A Memoir
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
F.A.D. Bourke
Saskatchewan History, vol. 35, no. 2, Spring, 1982, pp. 55-56
Description
Memoir of Fredrick Arthur Deane Bourke who joined the NWMP in 1877 and was posted at Fort Walsh, and later in Battleford; Bourke retired from the police force and with a partner bought 80 head of cattle and took up cattle ranching. Notes that in 1877 the buffalo were plentiful and after that they vanished from the plain.
Entire issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 55.
The Red River Rebellion and J. S. Dennis, “Lieutenant and Conservator of the Peace”
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Colin Read
Manitoba History, no. 3, 1982, p. [?]
Description
Contends that circumstances as well as Dennis' personal shortcomings contributed to his poor performance as a military leader in 1869.
Reflections on Fur Trade Social History and Metis History in Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Arthur J. Ray
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 6, no. 2, 1982, pp. 91-107
Description
Examines the apparent lack of scholarly work, concluding that there have been important strides recently with more attention, historically, on the lower classes of the fur trade society.
Rejecting the Standard Discourse on Dispossession Métis Lands in Manitoba
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
D'Arcy Vermette
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, 2017, pp. 87-119
Description
Looks at four reasons to reject the standard discourse: reliance on negative proof, represents governmental apologist manoeuvring, based on methodological individualism, the undermining of Aboriginal cultures in the writings of Thomas Flanagan.
Rekindling the Sacred Fire: Métis Ancestry and Anishinaabe Spirituality
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Blanca Tovías
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 2, Spring, 2017, p. 146
Description
Book review of: Rekindling the Sacred Fire by Chantal Fiola.
Remembering Will Have to Do: The Life and Times of Louise (Trottier) Moine
E-Books
Author/Creator
Louise Moine
Description
Anthology merges two previously published works: My Life in Residential School and Remembering Will Have to Do.
Reporting Métis in Urban Centres on the 1996 Census
Alternate Title
Setting the Agenda for Change ; vol. 1
Aboriginal Policy Research ; vol. 1
Aboriginal Policy Research Conference ; 1st, 2002
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Lorna Jantzen
vol. 1
Description
Argues that combining concepts of ethnic origin and Métis identity would provide a more complete picture of the population. Looks at statistics for Winnipeg, Edmonton, Calgary, and Vancouver.
Chapter five from Setting the Agenda for Change, vol. 1 which is also vol. 1 in the Aboriginal Policy Research series.
Originally presented at the Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, 2002.
Residential Schools and the Effects on Indigenous Health and Well-Being in Canada: A Scoping Review
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Piotr Wilk
Alana Maltby
Martin Cooke
Public Health Reviews, vol. 38, no. 8, 2017, pp. 1-23
Description
Looks at the negative health effects on residential school survivors and successive generations.
Riel Project / Bulletin / du Projet Riel - No.7. - May / Mai.1982.
Articles » General
Description
Article subjects include the Project's progress on publication of Riel volumes, and theft of Riel documents from a Winnipeg court house..
Historical note:
The purpose of the Riel project is to publish a critical edition of all the writings of Louis Riel. The edition is to present a printed version faithful to what Riel himself wrote, being "critical" in the sense that errors will be noted, variants recorded, and annotations furnished. In English / French.Riel Project / Bulletin / du Projet Riel - No.8. - October / Octobre.1982.
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Riel Project / Bulletin / du Projet Riel
Description
Article subjects include the Project's progress on publication of Riel volumes, and an interview with Bill Yurko, M.P. for Edmonton East, who was seeking a posthumous pardon for Louis Riel.
Historical note:
The purpose of the Riel project is to publish a critical edition of all the writings of Louis Riel. The edition is to present a printed version faithful to what Riel himself wrote, being "critical" in the sense that errors will be noted, variants recorded, and annotations furnished. In English / French."Riel … vivra dans notre histoire": The Response of French Canadians in the United States to Louis Riel's Execution
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mark Paul Richard
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 51, no. 3, Autumn, 2017, pp. 697-724
Description
Author explores the response from French-Canadian peoples living in the United States in the mid-1870s to the execution of Louis Riel; argues that the reaction can help to understand religious and ethnic transnationalism, and resistance to social and political forces in the Canada and the U.S. in the late nineteenth century.
Rooted in Mobility: Métis Buffalo-Hunting Brigades
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Brenda Macdougall
Nicole St-Onge
Manitoba History, no. 71, Red River Revisited, Winter, 2013, pp. 21-32
Description
Discusses the socio-cultural environment and familial relationships that underpinned the Pemmican economy.
Roots of Resilience: Overcoming Inequities in Aboriginal Communities
E-Books
Author/Creator
Canadian Council on Social Determinants of Health
Sam Steele and the Northwest Rebellion: The Trail of 1885
Alternate Title
Amazing Stories
E-Books
Author/Creator
Wayne F. Brown
The Scope and Bounds of Transitional Justice and the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rosemary L. Nagy
International Journal of Transitional Justice, vol. 7, no. 1, March 2013, pp. 52-73
Description
Comments on the TRC's capacity to advance decolonization and the issues that hamper that progress.
Screening for Chronic Diseases among Métis
Alternate Title
Aboriginal Peoples Survey, 2006
Analytical Document (Statistics Canada)
Fact Sheet (Statistics Canada)
E-Books
Author/Creator
Mohan B. Kumar
Teresa Janz
Settler Governmentality and Racializing Surveillance in Canada's North-West
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jeffrey Monaghan
Canadian Journal of Sociology, vol. 38, no. 4, Park/Santos Special Issue, 2013, pp. 487-508
Description
Focuses on the reports from an undercover agent from the Department of Indian Affairs.
Sinclair Put Métis in Canada's Constitution
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Dianne Meili
Windspeaker, vol. 30, no. 10, January 2013, p. 26
Description
Looks at the accomplishments of an Aboriginal activist Jim Sinclair over the span of fifty years.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.26.
Size, Structure, and Change: Exploring the Sources of Aboriginal Earnings Gaps in 1995 and 2005
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Donna Feir
Canadian Public Policy, vol. 39, no. 2, June 2013, pp. 309-334
Description
Looks at the Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal annual earnings gap and the on-reserve annual earnings penalty.
Social Determinants of Health For the Onset of Tuberculosis Among the Métis Population
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Velvet Maud
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 33, no. 2, 2013, pp. 71-79
Description
Findings indicate that socio-economic disparities are a contributing factor to the elevated rates of tuberculosis (TB).
A Solid Foundation: Second Progress Report on the Implementation of the Ontario First Nation, Métis, and Inuit Education Policy Framework
E-Books
Author/Creator
[Ontario] Ministry of Education
Description
Related documents:
Policy Framework
Implementation Plan
Songs Upon the Rivers: The Buried History of the French-Speaking Canadiens and Métis from the Great Lakes and the Mississippi across to the Pacific
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Jennifer S. H. Brown
Canada's History, vol. 97, no. 5, October-November 2017, pp. 56-57
Description
Book review of Songs Upon the Rivers by Robert Foxcurran, Michel Bouchard, and Sébastien Malette.