Hunting, Fishing, Trapping & Gathering

Overview of Métis history from the 1840s to 1875. Discusses the collapse of the buffalo hunting economy, the establishment of the community of St. Laurent, passing of laws to establish order, and the arrival of the North West Mounted Police. 

Includes questions for students.

Answer key

For use with chapter in the Grade 7 Social Studies textbook Voices and Visions: A Story of Canada by Daniel Francis, contributing authors Angus Scully and Jill Germain.

Includes stories and interlinear translations of: "How the Indian children were taught;" "Fishing;" "How copper was first found" (this story continues in the next notebook).

Historical note:

The Li Collection is comprised of 10 volumes containing stories in Dene collected in northern Alberta in 1928 by linguist Fanggui Li. Recorded in the field, these texts consist of phonetic transcriptions of stories elicited from Francois Mandeville and Baptiste Ferrier, with interlinear English translations.

FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Consists of minutes, transcripts, statements, correspondence/letters, submissions, and reports regarding the historical claim grievances of two First Nations who had 4,500 square miles of land seized to create the weapons range. Commissioners include: Harry S. LaForme, Daniel J. Bellegarde, and P.E. James Prentice. [These files were created and compiled by the ICC and provided to the Indigenous Studies Portal in 2009 to make widely available in online format.]