Strange Deaths after 7 Oaks
Sixty-five men accompanied Cuthbert Grant during the Battle at Frog Plain (aka Seven Oaks). Of this number, only one man was killed and...
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Mar 22, 20223 min
No Love for the White Man
While relations between European settlers and the Metis were generally amicable -- Metis often serving as employees of fur posts, as...
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Dibaajimowin
Mar 21, 20222 min
Indigenous Super-Food
By almost any account you read regarding the subsistence of the indigenous people of the prairies, it is indisputable that Pemmican was...
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Dibaajimowin
Mar 21, 20223 min
Blending and Benefit
How did the Métis become such a large part of the Turtle Mountain Band? The answer is complicated, but it is one that is based on...
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Dibaajimowin
Mar 21, 20222 min
A Search for the Hunters
In 1856, Colonel C. F. Smith led a military expedition to the Pembina area, to find out where a military post might be erected to serve...
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Dibaajimowin
Feb 10, 20223 min
Metis Remembrances
Below are two stories found in an old copy of the Bureau of Indian Affairs news sheet "Indians at Work" - a publication that was printed...
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Dibaajimowin
Dec 31, 20212 min
A Very Michif New Year
In his book, "Indian Boyhood", Charles Eastman (Sisseton Dakota) described the events of his first New Years celebration at a winter camp...
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Dibaajimowin
Dec 20, 20212 min
Dashing through the snow
For the Ojibwe and other northern people, snow shoes (or aagime) were essential to winter travel, survival, and hunting. The wooden frame...
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