E-Books
Author/Creator
Marcel Giraud
The Métis in the Canadian West, vol. 2
E-Books
Author/Creator
Marcel Giraud
Métis Land: Rights and Scrip Conference: Welcoming Remarks and Keynote Presentation
Alternate Title
Métis Land: Rights & Scrip Conference
“The history of scrip speculation and devaluation is a sorry chapter in our nation’s history”: The Failure of History and Law in Respect to Métis Nation Rights to a Land Base
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Frank Tough
Description
Key note presentation entitled "“The history of scrip speculation and devaluation is a sorry chapter in our nation’s history”: The Failure of History and Law in Respect to Métis Nation Rights to a Land Base." Followed by question and answer period.
Duration: 1:28:35.
Métis Matriarchs
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doris Jeanne Mackinnon
Canada's History, vol. 97, no. 6, December-January 2017-2018, pp. 38-43
Description
Looks at the lives of Bella Hardisty (later Lady Lougheed) and Buckskin Mary (Marie Rose Delorme).
Métis Perspectives of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and LGBTQ2S+ People
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Les Femmes Michif Otipemisiwak = Women of the Métis Nation
Métis Politics and Governance in Canada
E-Books
Author/Creator
Kelly Saunders
Janique Dubois
[Métis Registries]
Alternate Title
Wahkootowin as Methodology: How Archival Records Reveal a Metis Kinscape
[Daniels: In and Beyond the Law]
[Big Historical Data: Strategies for Leveraging Colonial History]
[Métis Identification and Registry]
[The Daniels Decision, Métis Registries, and Métis Research]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Brenda Macdougall
Mike Evans
Ryan Shackleton
Tracee Mcfeeters
Description
Presenters discuss importance of family relationships and kinship rather than just bloodlines, the Métis Nation of British Columbia's BC Métis Mapping Research Project, and administration of the Métis Nation of Alberta's identification and registration process.
Duration: 1:32:26.
Presentations are part of the conference "Daniels: In and Beyond the Law" held at University of Alberta, Jan. 26-27, 2017.
Métis Rights, Daniels and Reconciliation
Alternate Title
"Les Métis de l'Est": Outlining the Intellectual Currents at the Basis of 'Métis" Self-identification in Québec
Daniels: In and Beyond the Law
You Cannot "Blow Hot and Blow Cold": The Contradictions of Colonialism and the Disregard for Mé Agency in Daniels]
["Get your application in!: Post-Daniels Pitfalls, Self-Identification and the Rush to Become Métis]
[Promises and Pitfalls of Daniels]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Thomas Isaac
Adam Gaudry
Darryl Leroux
D'Arcy Vermette
Description
Keynote speaker discusses his report A Matter of National and Constitutional Import: Report of the Minister's Special Representative on Reconciliation with Métis: Section 35 Métis Rights and the Manitoba Metis Federation Decision.
Duration: 1:03:28.
Second part (beginning at 1:08:32) consists of panel presentations on "Promises and Pitfalls of Daniels". Speakers discuss implications of decision for Métis self-identification, Métis in Quebec, and the Métis nation.
Presentations are part of the conference "Daniels: In and Beyond the Law" held at University of Alberta, Jan.
Métis-specific Bibliography for the BCcampus Indigenization Project
Alternate Title
BCcampus Indigenization Project
[Indigenization Project: Process Documents and Resources]
Documents & Presentations
Description
Brief list of resources divided into four sections: kinship, land relations, tools and impacts of colonization, calls to action.
Metis Timeline Game
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Learning Bird
Description
Students participate in game involving the events leading up to and following the Red River Resistance, with special attention to Louis Riel.
A Métis Treaty Through the Lens of International Law
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Brenda L. Gunn
Bryn Rieger
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, 2017, pp. 4-25
Description
Argues that the agreement reached leading up to the Manitoba Act meets requirements for a valid treaty in international law as it was at the time.
Michif Language Research, Literature Review, Teaching Resources and Annotated Bibliography
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Lawrence Barkwell
Norman Fleury
David Morin
Description
List includes peer-reviewed and grey literature, on-line resources, oral histories, language videos, audio tapes, and CDs.
[Michif Language Resources: An Annotated Bibliography]
Alternate Title
Anishinaabe / Chippewa / Ojibwe Language Resources: An Annotated Bibliography
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Lawrence Barkwell
Norman Fleury
Description
Material on: culture, history, mythology and language as well as separate sections for scholarly articles and theses, children's books, films, internet resources, music, recordings, curriculum materials, and textbooks.
Molecular Death and Redface Reincarnation: Indigenous Appropriations in the US and Canada
Alternate Title
Daniels v Canada, Beyond Jurisprudential Interpretations: What to Do When the Horse as Left the Barn
Daniels: In and Beyond the Law
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Kim TallBear
Chris Andersen
Description
Speakers discuss the issue of who and what defines Indigenous identity, settler-state's practice of imposing their definitions, the phenomenon of "playing Indian", and broader social interpretations of court decisions such as Daniels.
Duration: 1:59:35. Presentations are part of the conference "Daniels: In and Beyond the Law" held at University of Alberta, Jan. 26-27, 2017.
My Reflection of that Time
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jeannette Armstrong
BC Studies , no. 200, 50th Anniversary, Winter, 2019, pp. 19-26
Description
Armstrong gives her personal account of the Indigenous rights movements that took place in British Columbia and across Canada, connecting the events and attitudes of the time to the larger Civil Rights Movement taking place across the continent and to other contemporary social/cultural shifts.
Negotiating Life Within the City: Social Geographies and Lived Experiences of Urban Metis Peoples in Ottawa
Theses
Author/Creator
Daniel Dumas
Description
Geography Thesis (M.A.)--University of Ottawa, 2017.
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.
Old Native and Métis Fiddling in Two Manitoba Communities: Camperville and Ebb and Flow
Theses
Author/Creator
Anne Lederman
Description
Music Thesis (M.F.A.)--York University, 1986.
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade 5: Unit Scope and Introduction
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
Our Land: Native Rights in Canada
Alternate Title
Canadian Issues Series
E-Books
Author/Creator
Donald Purich
"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.
Paquin / Pocha: The Origins of a Family in the Canadian Fur Trade, 1634-1896
E-Books
Author/Creator
Pat Redhead
"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.
Places Not Our Own
Alternate Title
Daughters of the Country
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Derek Mazur
Description
Fictional account of a Métis woman's struggle to raise her children alone and provide them with a better life.
Duration:57:10.
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.
[The Quest for Justice: Aboriginal Peoples and Aboriginal Rights]
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
W. H. McConnell
Natives Studies Review, vol. 2, no. 2, 1986, pp. 157-161
Description
Book review of: The Quest for Justice edited by Menno Boldt and J. Anthony Long.
Race, Personality and History: A Review of Marcel Giraud's 'The Métis in the Canadian West'
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Frank Tough
Native Studies Review, vol. 5, no. 2, 1989, pp. 55-93
Description
Analysis of the English translation of, Marcel Giraud's The Métis in the Canadian West which criticizes method and interpretation used by the author.
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.
Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls: Volume 1a
E-Books
Author/Creator
National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Reclaiming the Rapids: Evaluating the Reconciliatory and Decolonial Potential of Private Land Return
Theses
Author/Creator
Courtney Vaughan
Description
Canadian Studies Thesis (MA) -- Carleton University, 2019.
The Red Road to Nowhere: D'Arcy McNickle's "The Surrounded" and "The Hungry Generations"
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Louis Owens
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 3, Summer, 1989, pp. 239-248
Description
Looks at Indigenous author D'Arcy McNickle's first novel and his creation of the lost conflicted mixed-blood protagonist that would become common in Indigenous literature.
Reflections on Métissage as an Indigenous Research Praxis
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Susan Burke
Rheanna Robinson
AlterNative, vol. 15, no. 2, June 2019, pp. 150-157
Description
Authors discuss the possibilities and limitations inherent in their use of Métissage—assemblage through mixing, blending—as a research method in their PhD studies.
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.
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.
Reviews
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Joanna L. Endter
Allan R. Taylor
Thomas Biolsi
Jerome Klinkowitz
James Ruppert
Douglas R. Parks
Yasuhide Kawashima
Sidner Larson
Cornelius J Jaenen
Donald A Grinde
Helen Jaskoski
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 13, no. 2, 1989, pp. 107-138
Description
Book reviews of:
A Stranger in Her Native Land: Alice Fletcher and the American Indians by Joan Mark.
Blackfoot Dictionary of Stems, Roots and Affixes by D. G. Frantz and N. J. Russell.
The Indians' New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors From European Contact Through the Era of Removal by James H. Merrell.
American Women Writing Fiction edited by Mickey Pearlman.
New Voices From the Longhouse: An Anthology of Contemporary Iroquois Writing edited by Joseph Bruchac.
Spirit of the New England Tribes: Indian History and Folklore, 1620-1984 by William S.
Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Métis Child
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Alanis Obomsawin
Description
Tribute to an adolescent who committed suicide after moving in and out of 28 foster homes. This film deals with mature subject matter. Viewer discretion is advised.
Duration: 29:10.
"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.
Ritchot's Resistance: Abbé Noël Joseph Ritchot and the Creation and Transformation of Manitoba
Theses
Author/Creator
Philippe R. Mailhot
Description
History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Manitoba, 1986.
Saskatchewan Indians and the Resistance of 1885: Two Case Studies - Blair Stonechild. -1986.
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Blair Stonechild
Description
Case studies of Chiefs Poundmaker and Big Bear compiled by Blair Stonechild using oral history and original source materials. A curriculum intended to "enable the student to review the circumstances surrounding Indian involvement in the Resistance and to arrive at his or her own conclusions about the culpability of the Indian people."
Scrip and the History of the Métis Nation of Alberta
Alternate Title
Métis Land: Rights and Scrip Conference
Métis Scrip and Alberta Métis
Understanding the Legacy of Métis Scrip: The Alberta Métis Perspective
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Jason Madden
Audrey Poitras
Description
Two presentations: "Métis Scrip and Alberta Métis" and "Understanding the Legacy of Métis Scrip: The Alberta Métis Perspective" followed by question and answer period.
Duration: 1:27:15.
Second Place at the Polish Pow Wow
Theses
Author/Creator
Tyler Twarowski
Description
Aboriginal and World Indigenous Educational Studies Thesis (M.Ed.)--Queens University, 2019.
Settler City Limits: Indigenous Resrugence and Colonial Violence in the Urban Prairie West
E-Books
Author/Creator
Heather Dorries
Nick Estes
David Hugill
Julie Tomiak
Nicholas Brown …
Chris Andersen
Adam Gaudry ...
Zoe Todd
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.
Status of Métis Children Within the Child Welfare System
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lawrence J. Barkwell
Lyle N. Longclaws
David N. Chartrand
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 9, no. 1, 1989, pp. 33-53
Description
Investigates the deficiencies in service provided to Métis families in Manitoba by mainstream child and family service agencies and seeks to understand reasons for the disparity.
Staying in Place: Plains Metis Borderland Communities, 1885-1930
Theses
Author/Creator
Katie C. Pollock
Description
History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta, 2017.
A Story of Identity: A Cautionary Tale
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Patrick J. Lewis
AlterNative, vol. 13, no. 2, June 2017, pp. 114-121
Description
Discusses how a university dealt with a complaint about a student who misrepresented themselves as Métis.
Think Indigenous [2017]: Saskatoon, SK, Treaty 6 Territory: Angie Caron
Alternate Title
[Think Indigenous Education Conference ; 2017]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Angie Caron
Description
Presenter discusses her Métis roots and her role as an educator.
Duration: 23:16.