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Black Duck's Sacrifice

Makadeshib (Black Duck) was a brave warrior and early chief of the Pembina Band of Ojibwe. He maintained his home camps and hunted at...

Spying on Metis Communities (1885)

Prior to the battles of the 1885 resistance, the RCMP circulated a report that discussed the conditions of the Metis in the northwest of...

More than 1,300 Buffalo in a single day

Noted fur trader, Alexander Ross, described a Metis and Ojibwe hunting expedition that took place in 1840. According to Ross, two...

A Few Metis Communities (1895)

The Report of the Commissioner of the North-West Mounted Police Force for 1895 discusses a few Metis communities that were being visited...

The Sacking of Pembina

During the fall of 1811, Lord Selkirk tasked a group of settlers under the command of Capt. Miles McDonnell with creating a new...