The Christmas Season at Turtle Mountain in North Dakota
The old French end Indian spirit of Christmas begins at Christmas Eve with midnight mass. After the services are over we all begin to...
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Dibaajimowin Blog
- Dec 1, 2022
- 3 min
A Happy People...
An 1867 report on the indigenous population of the Red River Valley on the US side of the border of the newly created Dakota Territory by...
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- Nov 21, 2022
- 3 min
A Hivernant Metis Camp
Situated in the sparse timber bordering a small tributary of the Saskatchewan River, the community consisted of French half-breed hunters...
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- Oct 25, 2022
- 2 min
A Sanctified Hunt (1850)
In the fall of 1850, Father Albert Lacombe – whom served the Red River Metis from 1849-1852, and later became priest at Lac Ste. Anne,...
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- Sep 22, 2022
- 1 min
NORTH DAKOTA METIS MEETING IN GRAND FORKS
ATTENTION US-BASED METIS - UPCOMING MEETING The Manitoba Métis Federation (MMF) will be coming to Grand Forks, ND to hold a Community...
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- Sep 19, 2022
- 1 min
Venison Wild Rice Stew
Wild Rice season is here, and hunting season is fast upon us, so here is a simple recipe for using your Wild Rice and your Venison in a...
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- Aug 29, 2022
- 3 min
The Unique Red River People
In the 1885 book “The Indian sign language”, a very detailed description of the Red River Half-breeds is given by the author, with a...
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- Jul 25, 2022
- 3 min
The Rules of the Hunt
One of the most important roles of the okitcita (or warriors) was to regulate the tribal buffalo hunt of the Anishinaabek. Their main job...
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- Jul 8, 2022
- 2 min
Pseudo-Science to steal land
In 1906, Congress passed an Act (amended in 1907), authorizing mixed-blood Indians on White Earth Reservation, Minnesota, to sell the...
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- Jun 10, 2022
- 3 min
Allotments and Inherited Wealth
The Homestead Act was passed on May 20, 1862, and signed into law by Abraham Lincoln, providing up to 160 acres of land free of cost. An...
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- May 16, 2022
- 1 min
Red River Metis Artifacts
A collection of photographs of Red River Metis artifacts from the Turtle Mountain Reservation, Pembina, Red River Settlement (Manitoba),...
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- Apr 13, 2022
- 6 min
Bear Woman: A Tragic Tale
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...
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- Mar 28, 2022
- 4 min
Enfranchisement of Women
Beginning with the Gradual Enfranchisement Act, and replicated in the Indian Act of 1876, Indian women who married non-treaty Indian men,...
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- Mar 24, 2022
- 4 min
Beef. It's What's for Dinner
Following the dispersal of the Metis following the 1885 resistance, life was made difficult for many Metis. A significant number fled...
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- Mar 22, 2022
- 3 min
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, 2022
- 3 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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- Mar 21, 2022
- 2 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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- Mar 21, 2022
- 3 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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- Mar 21, 2022
- 2 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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- Feb 10, 2022
- 3 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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