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The Red River Rebellion: Eight Letters to Hon. Joseph Howe, Secretary of State for the Provinces, etc., in Reply to an Official Pamphlet by Hon.W.M. MacDougall, C.B., The Minister of Public Works and Commissioner to the Lieutenant-Governor of Rupert's Land and the North-West Territories

Alternate Title
The Red River Rebellion: Eight Letters to Hon. Joseph Howe, Secretary of State for the Provinces, etc., in Reply to an Official Pamphlet by Hon.W.M. McDougall, C.B., The Minister of Public Works and Commissioner to the Lieutenant-Governor of Rupert's Lan
E-Books
Author/Creator
Joseph Howe

Response to 66-page pamphlet entitled Red River Insurrection: Hon. Wm. McDougall's Conduct Reviewed.

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Red River Resistance

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Manitoba History, no. 29, Spring, 1995, p. [?]
Text taken from a brochure produced by Manitoba Culture, Heritage and Citizenship summarizes events which took place in 1869-1870 in and around Winnipeg.
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Red River's Anglophone Community: The Conflicting Views of John Christian Schultz and Alexander Begg

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Grant W. Grams
Manitoba History, vol. 64, Fall, 2010, pp. 10-17

Discusses how the two men's writings illustrate the two views points about the best option for Red River settlement's future: those who were in favour of annexation by Canada and those who felt that it would not be in the settlement's best interests since terms and conditions of it's future would be dictated by eastern Canadians.

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Reflections of Yesterday & Today

E-Books
Author/Creator
Education Program of the Manitoba Metis Federation
Includes interviews of: Albert Ballantyne, Laddie Ballantyne, Elsie Bear, Doreen Beaupre, Barney Brown, Leonard Budd, Al J.C. Chartrand, Amy Clemons, Lenore Clouston, John Cuthand, Jim Day, Johnny Dietrich, Norman Fleury, Rod Garrick, St.
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Reflections on Fur Trade Social History and Metis History in Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Arthur J. Ray
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 6, no. 2, 1982, pp. 91-107
Examines the apparent lack of scholarly work, concluding that there have been important strides recently with more attention, historically, on the lower classes of the fur trade society.
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Reluctant Homesteader: A French Settler’s Story

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jocelyn Scott
Saskatchewan History, vol. 58, no. 2, Fall, 2006, pp. 33-40
Narrates the story of Victor Colvez who, with his family, immigrated to Canada from the town of Rennes in Brittany in France, and settled in the Prince Albert Area. Part Two: Rookie Fur Trader - Describes Colvez’s life as a fur trader for the company Revillon Frères; includes anecdotes about the climate meeting and interacting with the Métis, learning English, and friends he met. Entire Issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 33.
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Reluctant Homesteader: A French Settler’s Story, Part One

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jocelyn Scott
Saskatchewan History, vol. 58, no. 2, Fall, 2006, pp. 24-32
Narrates the story of Victor Colvez who, with his family, immigrated to Canada from the town of Rennes in Brittany in France, and settled in the Prince Albert Area. Part One: A Parting of the Ways - explains how Colvez was recruited as a homesteader by the priest Father Le Floc’h, and how upon arriving in Prince Albert, realized that he was not equipped for homesteading and elected instead to take a job as the manager of the new fur trade post in Green Lake. Entire Issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 24.
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Remembering Riel - Bob Beal and Rod MacLeod. - Article. - May 1985.

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Rod MacLeod
Bob Beal
The cover story of the CBC Radio Guide for May 1985 deals with the legacy of Louis Riel, written by Bob Beal and Rod MacLeod. The story contains a brief analysis of the Northwest Resistance and the political effects on French and English Canada. Pps. 5-7.
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Remembrances: Interviews with Métis Veterans

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Gabriel Dumont Institute
Stories from interviews with Métis war veterans, many who have passed on, regarding their experiences in World War I, World War II or the Korean Conflict.
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Reminiscences of the Riel Rebellion of 1885 as told by old timers of Prince Albert and district who witnessed those stirring days

Articles » General
A book published by the Prince Albert Herald in 1935 which is a compilation of first hand stories of 1885. These stories had previously appeared in the Herald newspaper between March 19 and April 26, 1935. The stories are mainly from the point of view of non-Aboriginal settlers, however, there are some Metis stories.
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Report of Interview Dr. L.H. Thomas and Mr. Gabriel Leveille

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Gabriel Leveille
L. H. Thomas
Transcript of a tape recorded interview of Metis North West Mounted Police employee Gabriel Leveille. Leveille worked in the Cypress Hills, Fort Walsh area during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Topics covered in the interview include Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse in Canada, Gabriel Dumont and the 1885 uprising, roping a grizzly bear in the Cypress Hills, Chief Piapot, Ranching, and numerous other topics pertaining to Police and Metis life.

Historical note:

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[Report of the] North-West Half-Breed Commission

Alternate Title
Canada. House of Commons. Sessional Papers ; 1888, vol. 12, no. 14, pt. V, p. 1-8
North-West Half-Breed Claims Commission
[Royal Commission to Inquire into and Complete the Enumeration of Half-breeds and Claims of White Settlers in the North-West Territories]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Roger Norbert Alexis] Goulet
[Narcisse] Omer Coté
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Request for the City of Saskatoon to send a Representative to Batoche

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
City of Saskatoon
Includes Saskatoon City Council minutes from a meeting on Tuesday, February 19, 1980 regarding a request from Parks Canada that a representative of the City attend an open house on the direction of future developments at Batoche National Historic Site.
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Rev. Louis M. Adam

Images » Photographs
Rev. Louis M. Adam, o.m.i.,principal of the school in Beauval, Saskatchewan.
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Review Essay: Justice and Healing: Aboriginal Peoples in Canada

Alternate Title
Purich's Aboriginal Issues Series
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Dara Culhane
Critical Criminology, vol. 6, no. 2, 1995, pp. 140-160
Book reviews of: Indigenous Peoples of the World: An Introduction to Their Past, Present, and Future by Brian Goehring. The Cypress Hills: The Land and its People by Walter Hildebrandt and Brian Hubner. Aboriginal Self-Government in Canada: Current Trends and Issues edited by John Hylton. Continuing Poundmaker and Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice edited by Richard Gosse, James Youngblood Henderson and Roger Carter.
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Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Mary E. Stuckey
Denise Low
John Richard Beery
Susan Lobo
Margaret B. Blackman
Darby Li Po Price
Joanna C. Scherer
Robert Bensen
et al.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 23, no. 2, 1999, pp. 149-207
Book reviews of: American Indian Activism: Alcatraz to the Longest Walk edited by Troy Johnson, Joane Nagel, and Duane Champagne. As We Are Now: Mixblood Essays on Race and Identity edited by William S. Penn. Cahokia: Domination and Ideology in the Mississippian World edited by Timothy R. Pauketat and Thomas E.
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Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Ron Welburn
Anton Treuer
Jace Weaver
Jessiline Anderson
Karren Baird-Olson
John M. Shaw
David La Vere
Susan Lobo
Robert L. Munkres
Greg Poelzer
Brian Calliou
Raphael Comprone
et al.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 30, no. 3, 2006, pp. 129-178
Book reviews of: Algonquian Spirit: Contemporary Translations of the Algonquian Literatures of North America edited by Brian Swann. Building on a Borrowed Past: Place and Identity in Pipestone, Minnesota by Sally J. Southwick. The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature edited by Joy Porter and Kenneth M.
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Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Douglas W. Veltre
Jeffrey D. Anderson
David Reed Miller
Katherine Beaty Chiste
Sean M. Rafferty
Carol Miller
Caskey Russell
Thomas W. Cowger
Hugh Shewell
Alfred Young Man
Michael A. Glassow
Karen J. Travers
Stephen Warren
Ken Coates
et.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 35, no. 2, 2011, pp. 183-246
Book reviews of: An Aleutian Ethnography by Lucien M. Turner ; edited by Raymond L. Hudson. The Arapaho Language by Andrew Cowell and Alonzo Moss Sr. Broken Treaties: United States and Canadian Relations with the Lakotas and Plains Cree, 1868–1885 by Jill St. Germain. Canada’s Indigenous Constitution by John Borrows. Cave Archaeology of the Eastern Woodlands: Essays in Honor of Patty Jo Watson edited by David H. Dye. Cherokee Thoughts: Honest and Uncensored by Robert J.
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Revisiting Riel's Conviction

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
J.M. Bumsted
The Beaver, vol. 82, no. 3, June/July 2002, pp. 6-[?]
Discusses trial for high treason in light of new Bill S-35 introduced in the Senate which would declare the conviction "vacated."
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Riel and Dumont

Archival » Archival Items
Author/Creator
N.W. Emmott
File contains a letter written by Diefenbaker regarding Louis Riel's conviction and execution, as well as Dumont's involvement, a photocopied photograph of Gabriel Dumont and "The Halfbreed General" from the History Magazine, an article entitled "Gabriel Dumont and Friends Meet Dr. Gatling's Travelling Salesman, or Plainsman Versus Mechanical Man", and a copy of the Canadian Historical Review containing Dumont's account of the North-West Resistance.
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Riel Country

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Martin Duckworth
Film highlights play put on by high school Aboriginal students from Winnipeg's North End and Francophone students from Saint-Boniface. Discussion follows. Accompanying material: Riel Country: [Study Guide]. Duration: 49:05.
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Riel et la Naissance du Manitoba - 1921.

Documents & Presentations
A brochure (en francais) put out by L'Union Nationale Metisse Saint-Joseph du Manitoba in commemoration of Louis Riel's contribution towards the birth of Manitoba. Contains historical information on the Red River Resistance of 1869-1870 from an early twentieth century Metis perspective as well as historical notes on the Metis of the North West by Judge L.A. Prudhomme.
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Riel Finally Departs

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Manitoba Pageant, vol. 8, no. 3, April 1963, p. [?]
Excerpt by Charles R. Tuttle from the book History of Manitoba describing how Riel was persuaded to leave the province.
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