Resistance: 1869 & 1885

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Louis Riel Day Event Brings Community Together

Articles » General
Author/Creator
John Lagimodiere
Eagle Feather News, vol. 10, no. 12, December 2007, p. 14
Comments on a ceremony of paying respect to Louis Riel in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 122 years after his execution. Article located by scrolling to page 14.
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Louis Riel / Manitoban / 1844-1885 - Booklet. - 1971.

Archival » Archival Items
Author/Creator
Lionel Dorge
Booklet on the life of Louis Riel up to the Red River Resistance (1869-1870), commissioned by the Manitoba Centennial Corporation in 1971 in honour of a new monument of Riel, which is located on the grounds of the Manitoba Legislative Building in Winnipeg. Louis Riel is regarded as the founder of the province of Manitoba. Booklet in English / French.
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Louis Riel on Trial

Images » Photographs
Photograph of a sketch of Riel's trial in Regina, NWT, 1885. Riel stands at centre in the prisoner's box.

Historical note:

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Louis Riel: Patriot or Rebel?

Alternate Title
Historical Booklet (Canadian Historical Association); no. 2
E-Books
Author/Creator
George F. G. Stanley
Historical Booklet (Canadian Historical Association)
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Louis Riel’s Petition of Rights, 1884

Articles » General
Author/Creator
William Henry Jackson
Louis Riel
[William Pearce
Nicholas Davin Flood]
Saskatchewan History, vol. 23, no. 1, Winter, 1970, pp. [16]-26
A copy of the petition composed on behalf of the Inhabitants District of Lorne (which included the town of Prince Albert, and the Métis settlements St. Laurent and Batoche) in December of 1884 and delivered to Ottawa. Also included is letter from Nicholas Davin Flood, and an internal memorandum of the Department of the Interior by William Pearce. Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 16.
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Louis Riel Spy Mission Task 2016

Alternate Title
Dominion of Canada Classified Document 1869
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
J. Ditson

Mock letter from John A. Macdonald requesting students infiltrate the Red River Settlement to gather information. Intended for Grade 10 Social Studies.

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Louis Riel - The Rediscovered Hero

Alternate Title
Place and Memory in Canada: Global Perspectives=Lieu et Mémoire au Canada: Perspectives Globales
[Congress of Polish Association for Canadian Studies ; 3rd]
[International Conference of Central European Canadianists ; 3rd]
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Anna Reczyńska
Conference paper from: Place and Memory in Canada: Global Perspectives: 3rd Congress of Polish Association for Canadian Studies and 3rd International Conference of Central European Canadianists, April 30-May 3, 2004, Cracow, Poland edited by Magdalena Paluszkiewicz-Misiaczek, Anna Reczyńska, and Anna Śpiewak. Overview of Louis Riel's life.
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Louis Schmidt: Patriarch of St. Louis

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Raymond J.A. Huel
Saskatchewan History, vol. 40, no. 1, Winter , 1987, pp. 1-21
Author draws on Schmidt’s diary to create a biographical sketch of his life. Includes some details on Lois Riel, the Red River and North-West Resistances, St. Boniface, the Métis freighters, and other historical events and figures. Entire issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 1.
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Louis: The Lost Years

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
The Beaver, vol. 83, no. 1, February/March 2003, p. 5
Diary discovered in a San Diego garbage (held by North Dakota State Archives until 1980s) may shed light on Riel's years in the United States.
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Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Margaret L. Clarke
Prairie Forum, vol. 23, no. 2, Indigenous Voices from the Great Plains, Fall, 1998, pp. 267-273
Book review of: Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion by Blair Stonechild and Bill Waiser.
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"Lucy Margaret Baker: A Memoir (1920)"

Alternate Title
Lucy Margaret Baker: A Biographical Sketch of the First Missionary of Our Canadian Presbyterian Church to the North-West Indians
E-Books
Author/Creator
Lucy Margaret Baker
This file contains an original copy of Lucy Margaret Baker: A Memoir, compiled by Elizabeth A. Byers and published by Women's Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, 1920. It discusses her work with the Cree near Prince Albert, Sask. (Mistawasis Reserve), her teaching at Nisbet Academy, her work during North-West Rebellion, and her efforts to help an "outcast band of Sioux."
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Maglaire Cardinal Interview

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Maglaire Cardinal
Rose Saddleback
Indian History Film Project
Highlights how people of Goodfish Lake stayed out of the Riel Rebellion.
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Malcolm Norris Speech at Batoche

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Malcolm Norris
Indian History Film Project
Speech made on July 4, 1962 by Malcolm Norris at a ceremony in Batoche marking the 100th anniversary of the Royal Regiment of Canada.
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Manitoba and Canada's North-West: Founders and Builders

Alternate Title
Canadian Issues ; Spring/Summer 2021
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Robert Wardhaugh
James Mochoruk
Barry Ferguson
Frank J. Tough
David Chartrand ... [et al.]

Special issue of Canadian Issues containing articles which focus on the Métis and the formation of Manitoba.

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Mann Children in 1885

Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Scott & Co. (photographer)
A portrait photograph taken in Toronto of George G. Mann's three children after the family was released from captivity in 1885. (l to r) George Mann Jr., Charlotte and Blanche. They spent the summer in Ontario with their mother Sarah and returned to Onion Lake in the fall of 1885.
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Map of the North-West Territories - Newspaper clipping. - [1885?].

Images » Photographs
A map of the North-West Territories and brief story focusing on the Districts of Saskatchewan and Assiniboia in 1885. Below the map is a brief explanation of places in relation to the Northwest Resistance. The map was apparently published shortly before the Battle of Batoche as it reports "Middelton's column is now on the east bank of the south branch of the Saskatchewan, moving from Clark's Crossing to Batoche, where the enemy is reported to be entrenched in force."

Historical note:

First printed in The Illustrated War News, 1885.
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Marie Osecap 2 Interview

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Marie Osecap
Alphonse Littlepoplar
Indian History Film Project
Interview includes a description of life on the reserve that describes milking, sheep-shearing and fishing weirs. It also consists of stories about a woman whose husband turned into a lizard; a story of Wisakedjak; and how Thunder Blanket killed his wife and then himself.
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Mass Grave of Indians Hanged at Battleford

Alternate Title
Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion
Images » Photographs
Image of unidentified man standing next to the mass grave site at the base of a sandy ravine on the North Saskatchewan River. The site was capped with a concrete slab in 1954. From the book Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion by Blair Stonechild and Bill Waiser.
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Maurice Boyer Interview

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Maurice Boyer
Judy M. Thibodeau
Indian History Film Project
The interview is an account of Maurice Boyer's life.
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McDougall and the Métis

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Harry Shave
Manitoba Pageant, vol. 11, no. 3, Spring, 1966, p. [?]
Describes the 1869 incident when Métis refused to allow to the future Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories to cross the border with the United States.
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Mederic McDougall Interview

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Mederic McDougall
Carol Pearlstone
Indian History Film Project
Mr. McDougall is descended from French and Scottish halfbreeds and is active in the Metis Society of Saskatchewan. He gives an account of the Metis way of life and philosophy, the Riel Rebellion, shares memories of WWI, WWII and the Depression. He also talks about the discrimination against native people.
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Memento inscribed North West 1885 Canada

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An image of a memento that resembles a military medal. The inscription reads: North West 1885 CANADA, and is encircled with a branch of maple leaves. It presumably commemorates the 1885 Riel Rebellion.
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Les memoires de Louis Schmidt. 8 Juin 1911.

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Le Patriote
Louis Schmidt
Louis Schmidt's memoirs and addendum provide an autobiographical account of his life, the plight of the Metis and their grievances, the causes of the Red River Resistance of 1869-1870, his secretarial responsibilities with Louis Riel, and the struggle leading to the establishment of Manitoba as a province. The memoirs were published in Le Patriote, no. 14, 8 Juin 1911.
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Memoirs of Mrs Barbara E. Anderson

Archival » Archival Items
Barbara Anderson was an early settler at Saskatoon, and a child at the time of the Resistance. These memoirs include her memories of the Northwest Resistance and the period preceding it. Contains information on Metis scouts (Charlie Ross) surveilling the settlement, White Cap and the Dakota's friendship with the settlers at Saskatoon and reluctance to join the Metis, discussion by settlers of abandoning the settlement for Moose Jaw, the captive Riel's transfer at Saskatoon from the steamer Northcote to wagon, and the care of wounded soldiers in Saskatoon.
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Men in front of Humboldt Telegraph Station

Images » Photographs
Image of Humboldt Telegraph Station, likely during the Northwest Resistance. On back of photo: From left to right: Sergeant Mickey Farren of Winnipeg, who was supply officer for the troops during the Reil (sic) Rebellion of 1885; Tom Sanderson, who was taken prisoner at Hoods Mail Station, and who was afterwards sent by Reil (sic) with messages to Major Crozier at Carelton (sic); the man in the door is Tom Pike, operator of Humboldt Mail Station; seated is Wm. Scott, in charge of the Mail Station; and standing are two Metis who had been caught stealing summer supplies."
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The Metis

Alternate Title
Canadian Issues Series
E-Books
Author/Creator
Donald Purich
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The Métis

Alternate Title
[Voices and Visions: A Story of Canada]
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
[Daniel Francis]

Chapter 8 in Voices and Visions: A Story of Canada, a Grade 7 Social Studies textbook.

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Métis Agriculture in Saskatchewan

Alternate Title
Agriculture: The Heart of Saskatchewan’s Past, Present, and Future
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Agriculture in the Classroom
Topics include Métis identity, the 1885 Resistance, food and diet, and farming.
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The Metis and the Spirit of Resistance

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Darren R. Préfontaine
Leah Dorion
Presents an educational module for students learning about the 1869-70 and 1885 Metis Resistance.
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