Communities

Comments on the indirect border-control strategies that attacked the motivations for crossing the border between Canada and the United States.

Author provides some information and history about the Anglophone Métis community in the areas in and around what is now Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Paper examines the stages of the Life Long Learning continuum from a Métis perspective. The roundtable on this topic was held November 13th and 14th, 2004, Winnipeg, Manitoba and November 18th and 19th, 2004, Ottawa, Ontario.

Book review of: Canada and the Métis, 1869-1885 by D. N. Sprague.

History Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 1978.

Explores 1944 policies about Métis poverty that were designed by the Canadian Commonwealth Federation (CCF) to facilitate training, development and eventual assimilation.

A photograph of the cemetery at Batoche, taken sometime after 1929.

General account of his life.

Church and Museum at Batoche, SK. No date given.

History Thesis (M.A.)--Utah State University, 2015.

Consists of an interview where she gives a general account of reserve life. She gives a description of Indian games and tells of the establishment of the Gordon Reserve, Saskatchewan

Comments on the programs developed to help meet the needs of the Métis community and the clients who have been served by the Clarence Campeau Development Fund over the past ten years. Article located by scrolling to pages 11-13.

Examines the impact that familial relationships had on the evolution of both HBC and Métis communities.

Note: The title and description of this document uses wording that was common to mainstream society of that time period in history. As such, it contains language that is no longer in common use and may offend some readers. This wording should not be construed to represent the views of the Indigenous Studies Portal or the University of Saskatchewan Library. This file contains a variety of documents pertaining to the Halfbreed Scrip Commission in the Saskatchewan District of the North West Territories following the Northwest Resistance. It also contains documents referring to the scrip issued to scouts who took part in suppressing the 1885 uprising.

Includes Saskatoon City Council minutes from a meeting on Tuesday, February 19, 1980 regarding a proposal to hire an permanent staff member for the purposes of co-ordination, development and research with reference to Aboriginal-Non-Aboriginal Affairs in the City of Saskatoon. The report cites increased Aboriginal migration to the city over the previous two years as one reason behind this proposal.

Discusses the growing trend for self-identifying as Métis, particularly in Eastern Canada, based genealogical records rather than cultural ties to long-established communities located in Western Canada.

Two-part paper first examine the history of Île-à-la-Crosse in the context of mainstream histories, then examines how local community histories have become markers of Aboriginality. Entire Issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 18.

Power point presentation given at the Aboriginal Health Transition Fund Conference, Sharing of Wisdom Keepers: Translating the AHTF Experience, June 9 - 10, 2010.

Survey conducted to understand the impacts of social, economic and cultural conditions on health and the community. Updated and revised July 25, 2010.

Looks at understanding the determinants of sedentary behaviour during leisure in order to design effective interventions.

Law Thesis (PhD)--University of Victoria, 2016.

Book review of: Contours of a People edited by Nicole St-Onge, Carolyn Podruchny, Brenda Macdougall; forward by Maria Campbell.

Book review of: Contours of a People edited by Nicole St-Onge, Carolyn Podruchny and Brenda MacDougall. Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review, scroll to p. 463.

Looks at a key document instrumental in helping to rewrite Manitoba history.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta, 1973.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Manitoba, 2003.

File contains 3 negatives of the Crutwell, Saskatchewan Local of AMNSIS (no. 66) recieving $33000 from the federal government for the building of a ball diamond in the community. One scanned image shows members of AMNSIS local at the ceremony.

Introduction to one of the oldest continuous Métis communities in Canada.

Assessment of the influence of traditional foods, their nutritional value in diets, and the loss of certain nutrients related to diet change.

History of Lesser Slave Lake reserves, and details of the history of Swan River Reserve.

Study of the high rate of diabetes and processes of care.

Journal of the John Alexander Victor Preston, a Lieutenant in D Company of the Midland Battalion in the Canadian militia in 1885. Preston’s company arrived in Batoche on the 13th of May joining Middleton’s command and participating in extinguishing the Northwest Resistance. Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 95.

Image of John Diefenbaker walking through the cemetery at the opening ceremony, June 28, 1961.

Argues that the Métis dispersed after 1850 due to changes in their economy.

Looks at the Manitoba Act and the dispersal of the Métis.

Population Health Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Ottawa, 2013.

Describes the Battle of Grand Coteau between the Métis and the Sioux in 1851 and explores the reasons for the migration of some Métis to the United States.

Identifies sources and methods for documenting Métis during the fur trade period in Ontario in order to investigate legal and historical questions related to contemporary rights of Métis in that province.

File contains two negatives from a tea and bake sale held by the Domestic Serving Classes of the Women's Metis Society, presumably in Prince Albert, SK, on December 7, 1973. The images show sale participants.

Consists of an interview with non-Indian employed at the Gabriel Dumont Institute in Regina. At the time of the interview he was writing a book on the history of the Metis nation.

Don Nielson was one of the original organizers of the Metis Association of Saskatchewan in 1964. He talks about the differences between Metis groups in the north and south and Norris's fight against government funding.

A series of historical notes on points of special interest between Saskatoon and Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. Includes information on Metis Southbranch settlements such as Batoche and Duck Lake, as well as information on the Carlton and associated trails.

A book containing Indian Agent's ledgers from the Duck Lake agency for 1885-1889, and 1921-1929. The first half of this ledger is "Issues to Destitute Settlers" (Mrs. Gabriel Dumont and others connected to the 1885 Uprising are included); the second half is a calendar of outgoing correspondence.

Historical note:

Harold Nelson Woodsworth served as an Indian Agent at a number of agencies in Saskatchewan.

Looks at the definition of rights-bearing Métis and the challenges involved with the consultation processes for environmental issues.

Describes the arrival of Christian missionaries in the Red River Settlement in the early 1820s and then their expansion into the North-West Territories in the 1840s and 50s. Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 60.