A collection of photographs of Red River Metis artifacts from the Turtle Mountain Reservation, Pembina, Red River Settlement (Manitoba),...

There once was an Ojibwe girl who lived a very tragic life. She was one of three surviving members of a family of seven, the others...

Beginning with the Gradual Enfranchisement Act, and replicated in the Indian Act of 1876, Indian women who married non-treaty Indian men,...

Following the dispersal of the Metis following the 1885 resistance, life was made difficult for many Metis. A significant number fled...

Sixty-five men accompanied Cuthbert Grant during the Battle at Frog Plain (aka Seven Oaks). Of this number, only one man was killed and...

While relations between European settlers and the Metis were generally amicable -- Metis often serving as employees of fur posts, as...

By almost any account you read regarding the subsistence of the indigenous people of the prairies, it is indisputable that Pemmican was...

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...

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...

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...

In his book, "Indian Boyhood", Charles Eastman (Sisseton Dakota) described the events of his first New Years celebration at a winter camp...

For the Ojibwe and other northern people, snow shoes (or aagime) were essential to winter travel, survival, and hunting. The wooden frame...

The carts used by the Red River half-breeds are peculiar to the landscape and the hunt, and are of uniform make. They are constructed...

Metis fiddler, Alberta (ca.1900) - Reputed to be a Callihoo family member. Enhanced & colorized by Dibaajimowin (12/22/2020)

In 1860, it was reported that the annual Metis buffalo hunt started around June 15th. At that time, there were two great hunts – one...

Christmas is a time for traditions and being with family. It is a special time when we express our culture and our love of family. For...

After the Métis resistance was crushed by the invading European forces, following the defeat at Batoche in May 1885, the colonizers of...

Joseph McCloud (McLeod) was born on August 26, 1895, on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in Belcourt, North Dakota, USA, to Red...

Jean Baptiste Bottineau (Boutineau), a French-Chippewa, mixed blood, successful fur-trader, surveyor, real estate broker, lawyer, justice...

In the rough and rowdy days that followed the first Metis resistance in 1869, there was a climate of general lawlessness and rowdiness...