Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, May 1885, p. 196
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A short article on the ongoing Northwest Resistance, including four sketches: 1. The fort at Battleford; 2. The South Saskatchewan; 3. Steamers loading at Medicine Hat; 4. The Revolt of the Half-Breeds.
This file contains excerpts from Reginald Beatty's diary, correspondence about his encounters with Cree people, and letters home to his parents detailing his experience in the 1885 Riel Rebellion. Mr. Beatty was a farmer and fur trader in what is now known as the Melfort area of Saskatchewan.
Ryan McMahon travels across Ontario talking to Indigenous leaders, lawyers, historians, researchers and policy makers about the building of roads and the effects on Indigenous people and their land. Includes stories about isolation from people of Shoal Lake 40.
Duration: 44:07.
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 4, Fall, 2016, pp. 259-280
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Uses material culture and paleobotanical evidence to assess the chronological development of the Wichita society living in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas from 1450 to the 1800s.
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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NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 3, no. 1, 2016, pp. 46-74
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"This article demonstrates that Canada's political claims to ownership over the North-West lay in problematic claims of sovereignty made by British and Canadian explorers, politicians, and businessmen, using language of discovery and sovereignty to obscure Indigenous governance already in practice".
Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion
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Photograph. Caption: Treaty Six negotiations were held at a traditional camping area, known to the Cree as the "waiting place", near Fort Carlton.
From the book Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion by Blair Stonechild and Bill Waiser.
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.
Canada's History, vol. 96, no. 4, August/September 2016, pp. 63-64
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Describes the contributions of the various First Nations of British Columbia who worked as trappers, cooks, packers, guides and postal carriers in the mid 1800s.
Canadian Journal of History, vol. 51, no. 1, Spring-Summer, 2016, pp. 1-32
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"This article argues that both these long-standing perceptions of Mohawks as men possessing superior skills as woodsmen and imbued with a fierce character informed the Montreal-area hiring practices of large fur trade concerns."
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.
Book review of Indigenous Intermediaries edited by Shino Konishi, Maria Nugent Shino and Tiffany Shellam; and Brokers & Boundaries edited by Tiffany Shellam, Maria Nugent, Shino Konishi and Allison Cadzow.
A typed copy of Inspector Francis Dickens's North West Mounted Police journal from Fort Pitt in 1885. Recounts the events of the Resistance, the skirmish and subsequent abandonment of Fort Pitt by Dickens who was in command of the installation when hostilities broke out.
Group photo taken on the grounds of Fort Pitt, NWT. Numbered from L to R: 1. Fire Sky Thunder; 2. Sky Bird (Big Bear's son); 3. Natoose; 4. Napasis; 5. Big Bear; 6. Angus McKay (HBC); 7. Dufrain (HBC cook); 8. L. Goulet; 9. Stanley Simpson (HBC); 10. Alex McDonald; 11. Rowley; 12. Corp. Sleigh (NWMP); 13. Edmond; 14. Henry Dufrain.
Uses ethnographic sources for information about geographical location and character of winter settlements, communication and transportation networks, mobility of families, hunting grounds, seasonal hunting and trading, and hunting strategies.