1885: Metis Rebellion or Government Conspiracy?
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Don McLean
History Thesis (MA) -- College of William & Mary, 1990.
The battle was a confrontation between the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company during the Pemmican War which was precipitated by a proclamation that no pemmican could be exported from the Red River Colony. The North West contingent was led by Cuthbert Grant and included a large number of Métis.
Excerpt from the Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada ; sec. 2, 1886.
Transcript of House of Commons (United Kingdom) debate about the conflicts between the Lord Selkirk's colony and the North West company.
Reprinted from v. 5 of the Papers of the Bibliographic Society of America, Chicago 1911.
Republished from the Montreal Herald.
Republished from the Montreal Herald.