4 days ago1 minMetisRed River Metis ArtifactsA collection of photographs of Red River Metis artifacts from the Turtle Mountain Reservation, Pembina, Red River Settlement (Manitoba),...
Apr 136 minMetisBear Woman: A Tragic TaleThere 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...
Mar 284 minMetisEnfranchisement of WomenBeginning with the Gradual Enfranchisement Act, and replicated in the Indian Act of 1876, Indian women who married non-treaty Indian men,...
Mar 244 minMetisBeef. It's What's for DinnerFollowing the dispersal of the Metis following the 1885 resistance, life was made difficult for many Metis. A significant number fled...
Mar 223 minMetisStrange Deaths after 7 OaksSixty-five men accompanied Cuthbert Grant during the Battle at Frog Plain (aka Seven Oaks). Of this number, only one man was killed and...
Mar 223 minMetisNo Love for the White ManWhile relations between European settlers and the Metis were generally amicable -- Metis often serving as employees of fur posts, as...
Mar 212 minMetisIndigenous Super-FoodBy almost any account you read regarding the subsistence of the indigenous people of the prairies, it is indisputable that Pemmican was...
Mar 213 minMetisBlending and BenefitHow 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...
Mar 212 minMetisA Search for the HuntersIn 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...
Feb 103 minMetisMetis Remembrances at Turtle Mountain, North DakotaBelow are two stories found in an old copy of the Bureau of Indian Affairs news sheet "Indians at Work" - a publication that was printed...
Dec 31, 20212 minMetisA Very Michif New YearIn his book, "Indian Boyhood", Charles Eastman (Sisseton Dakota) described the events of his first New Years celebration at a winter camp...
Dec 20, 20212 minAnishinaabekDashing through the snowFor the Ojibwe and other northern people, snow shoes (or aagime) were essential to winter travel, survival, and hunting. The wooden frame...
Dec 9, 20214 minMetisThe Excitement of CampThe carts used by the Red River half-breeds are peculiar to the landscape and the hunt, and are of uniform make. They are constructed...
Dec 9, 20211 minMetisFiddling the Day AwayMetis fiddler, Alberta (ca.1900) - Reputed to be a Callihoo family member. Enhanced & colorized by Dibaajimowin (12/22/2020)
Dec 7, 20212 minMetisThe Beginning of the EndIn 1860, it was reported that the annual Metis buffalo hunt started around June 15th. At that time, there were two great hunts – one...
Nov 29, 20211 minGeneral CultureA Very Michif ChristmasChristmas 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...
Nov 16, 20211 minMetisRemembering Louis RielAfter the Métis resistance was crushed by the invading European forces, following the defeat at Batoche in May 1885, the colonizers of...
Nov 9, 20211 minMetisAn American Metis who fought for Canada Joseph McCloud (McLeod) was born on August 26, 1895, on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in Belcourt, North Dakota, USA, to Red...
Oct 26, 20212 minMetisJ.B. Bottineau (in Memorium)Jean Baptiste Bottineau (Boutineau), a French-Chippewa, mixed blood, successful fur-trader, surveyor, real estate broker, lawyer, justice...
Oct 20, 20214 minMetisBorn to Raise HellIn the rough and rowdy days that followed the first Metis resistance in 1869, there was a climate of general lawlessness and rowdiness...