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The Hudson's Bay Company Trading System [Pdf]
A 42 page learning module presenting a detailed history of the Hudson's Bay Company and the development of their fur trading routes. This document, published in PDF format, contains maps of the trading system, historical timelines and...
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The Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture
This user-friendly site takes a close look at Metis history and culture through the use of many primary resources including oral histories, audio and video files, art, interviews, documents, and more. Very comprehensive site.
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The Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture
The Gabriel Dumont Institute has pulled together a variety of educational resources surrounding the Metis Peoples. From Bison hunting to the Metis Food and Diet, educators can access both lesson plans and resources to support teaching...
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Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture: Metis Food and Diet
Article looks at traditional diet of Metis and the health impact of a shift away from that. Includes discussion questions and Metis recipes to try.
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Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture: Metis Family Life
Article looks at Metis family life from fur trade days on. Includes discussion questions and a bibliography. The document is sixty-six pages.
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Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture: Metis Educational Life
Essay looks at the history of Metis education since the fur trade days. Includes discussion questions and a bibliography.
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Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture: Bison
Article describes the importance of bison to the Metis, bison hunting culture, foods made from bison, and what the loss of the herds meant to the Metis way of life.
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Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture: Fur Trade Employees, Etc.
This paper looks at the various working roles played by Metis in the nineteenth century - as fur traders, free traders, guides and scouts. It includes discussion questions and a bibliography.
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Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture: Metis Spiritualism
Metis spiritual beliefs and practices are covered in this paper. Discussion questions and a bibliography are included.
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Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture: Metis Trappers and Hide Working
The Metis are skilled trappers. Trapping was a mainstay of their livelihoods in the past but this is not the case today. This article on Metis trapping also includes discussion questions and a bibliography.
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The Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture: Resources
Part of a larger web site, this site lists a series of links to Metis research documents.Useful for anyone collectingbackground data on the Metis of Saskatchewan.
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Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture: Metis Writers
Metis writers are profiled in this document. Their works of fiction most often addressthe complicated nature of being mixed-heritage, finding acceptance of that fact, and fighting racism.
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Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture: The Red River Cart
The Red River Cart, an invention of the Metis, played an important role in the settling of the West by improving transportation of goods. Cart making became an industry for the Metis later on. This article explores the history of the Red...
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Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture: The Sash
This article explains the importance of the sash in Metis culture and its history. There are weaving activities and a bibliography included.
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Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture: Traditional Metis Housing
The many forms of housing and shelter that the Metis used are presented. Discussion questions and a bibliography can be found at the end of the article.
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Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture: Metis Medicines and Remedies
Traditional Metis healing practices and medicines are discussed in this article. Discussion questions and a bibliography are included.
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Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture: Metis Socialization & Entertainment
The Metis liked to enjoy themselves. Traditional forms of Metis entertainment and socialization, among both children and adults, are outlined in this article. Teaching activities, discussion questions and a bibliography can be found at...
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Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture: Traditional Metis Transportation
The Metis travelled by Red River cart, canoe, horse, snowshoe, sled dogs and in other ways, all of which are described in this paper. Discussion questions and a bibliography are included.
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Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture: Metis Biographies
As part of a larger web site and accessed through a series of links, this section focuses on the biographies of noted Metis.
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Virtual Museum of Metis Hist. And Cult.: Canadian Atlas of Aboriginal Settlement
This collection of maps gives historical information about Metis and other First Nations patterns of settlement and organization.
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Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture: My Family Storybook
My Family is a downloadable storybook about a typical Metis family unit and the roles each person plays within that family. The reading level is for younger students but older students will appreciate the artwork.
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Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture: Changes Storybook
Changes is a downloadable storybook about a Metis child speaking to a spirit about the seasons. The art work is lovely and the reading level is at about mid-primary.
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Virtual Mus. Of Metis Hist. And Cult.: La Mishow Wayayshhaywuk: The Big Rip Off
The Big Rip-Off is a simulation teaching unit for the classroom where students experience what Metis went through during the Metis Land Disentitlement prior to the resistance at Batoche in 1885. Resources needed for the unit - some...
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Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture: Metis and Study of Canadian History
This is an excellent paper to share with students to teach them to think critically about everything they read. It discusses how history has traditionally been written from a Euro-Canadian viewpoint, neglecting the aboriginal one and...