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Métis Resources Available Through the Aboriginal Nations Education Library Greater Victoria School Board Office 556 Boleskine Road, Victoria, Bc V8z 1E8 MÉTIS RESOURCES AVAILABLE THROUGH THE ABORIGINAL NATIONS EDUCATION LIBRARY GREATER VICTORIA SCHOOL BOARD OFFICE 556 BOLESKINE ROAD, VICTORIA, BC V8Z 1E8 Secondary: A Very Small Rebellion Fifty Historical Vignettes (Views of the Common 813.54: TRU People) Jan Truss 971.2: McL Novel Don Mclean A historical overview of the Métis people. Back to Batoche 813.6: CHA First Métis, The: A New Nation Cheryl Chad 971: AND The discovery of a magic pocket watch send three Dr. Anne Anderson children back into time to the Battle of Batoche. A historical overview of the Métis Nation. Buffalo Hunt, The Growth of the First Métis Nation 971: GAB 371.3: FNED Teacher’s Curriculum Guide & Lesson Plans Ekosi Available Through Aboriginal Nations Education 811.6: ACC Division, SD #61 Anne Acco A Métis retrospective of poetry and prose. Home from the Hill: A History of the Métis In Western Canada Expressing Our Heritage: Metis Artistic Designs 971.2: McL 391.008: TRO Don McLean Cheryl Troupe Métis arts including language and glossary. Honour the Sun (Grades 7 to 12) PI 813.54: SLI Gabriel Dumont Institute/Pelletier Ruby Slipperjack Cries from a Métis Heart After years away, a young woman returns to the 971.004971: MAY railroad community in northern Ontario where she Lorraine Mayer was raised, only to find life there has turned for the From the ghosts of her past, the author struggles as worse. As trouble reaches her mother and her a mother, an academic and a Métis woman to find friends, will she, too, succumb to despair? her identity and freedom. Métis Resources 1 Updated: 7/3/2018 I Knew Two Métis Women Medicines to Help Us 811.54: SCO 615.32: BEL Gregory Scofield Christi Belcourt Award winning Métis poet Gregory Scofield Traditional Métis plant use. recreates the world of his childhood and celebrates his Métis family. Mere Observations 811.6: GAR In Search of April Raintree Derek Garson 813.54: MOS A young Métis explores poetry in a fresh and Beatrice Culletonr gripping form from lyric poetry to narrative The sad and tragic features of native life in urban scenes. Canada featuring two Métis sisters. Métis, The Incredible Adventures of Louis Riel, The: 971.00497: PUR Canada’s Most Famous Revolutionary Donald Purich 971.051: KLE A comprehensive account of Métis history and of Cat Klerks the Métis’ goals today. A thorough, This book will be especially fascinating for all straightforward analysis of the Métis’ current readers interested in history, biography and efforts to achieve land settlements, constitutional politics. protection and self-government. James McKay: A Métis Builder of Canada Métis: A Visual History, The 971.1: GRA 971.00497: RAC Agnes Grant Sherry Farrell Racette James was an important figure A visual history covering 300 years of in history of Western Canada. history and culture from the birth of the Métis He was the son of an immigrant Nation. father and a Métis woman, and lived most of his life in Manitoba. He was a Métis, The: Canada’s Forgotten People favorite guide for the travelers who ventured into 971.00497: SEA Manitoba. D. Bruce Sealey An exposé of racism, discrimination and prejudice Louis Riel – a Comic-strip Biography aimed at the Métis in Canada, not only by the 741.59: BRO dominant society but some Métis as well. Written Chester Brown with humour, compassion and insight, the book The story of Louis Riel whose struggle creates awareness in the reader of the long history to win rights for his people led to violent of the Métis and how it relates to the plight in rebellion. which so many find them today. Many Tender Ties 971.201: VAN Sylvia Van Kirk Women in the fur-trade society: 1670-1870. Métis Resources 2 Updated: 7/3/2018 Métis Dances: a teacher handbook for Main Street in downtown Winnipeg to the Hecla Kindergarten to Grade 9 Islands. 371.3: SAS Saskatchewan Education Métis Spirits Dance steps illustrated and explained. 813.54: DEL Deborah Delaronde Métis History One of Pemmican’s most popular children’s 971.2: LUS authors offers her first short story collection for Terry Lusty young adults. Gently supernatural events show how young people can take pride in themselves by Métis in BC The -from Fur Trade Outposts to understanding their history. Colony 971.100497: GOU My Children Are My Reward: The Life of Elsie George & Terry Goulet Spence The book deals with the groundbreaking part that 971.00497: HAR Métis people played in the history and development Alix Harpelle of early BC. Explore the traditional lifestyle of the Métis people living in Manitoba during the mid 1900’s. This Métis Outpost book reveals the strong matriarchal role of women 971.11: AND within the Métis family. Gerry Andrews Memoirs of the first schoolmaster at the Métis Native Link The: Tracing One’s Roots to the Fur settlement of Kelly Lake, B.C. 1923-1925 Trade 971.2: TAY Métis, The: Memorable Events; Memorable By R. Leslie Taylor Personalities This narrative goes beyond the author’s family tree 971.00497: GOU and symbolizes the roots of what we know today Terry Goulet as Western Canada. An insightful picture into the history, heritage and culture of the Métis people. 1885 Métis Rebellion or Government Conspiracy? 971.054: McL Métis People of Quesnel Don McLean 971.2: POI The Buffalo Hunt. Leona Point A distinct group of people that brought their Native Chiefs and Famous Métis: varied cultural heritage to Quesnel. 971.2: QUA Holly Quan Métis Princess, The Leadership and Bravery in the Canadian West. 843.54 : PIE Annette Saint-Pierre One and a Half Men: The Story of Jim A wonderful suspense romance novel about a Métis Brady&Malcolm Norris girl who conceals her ancestry to fit in, but achieves 971.00497: DOB acceptance and liberation. The story moves from Murray Dobbin Métis Resources 3 Updated: 7/3/2018 The term "one-and-a-half men" was coined by 19th and true, she explores and transcends the multiple century Catholic priests to refer to Métis rebels: boundaries imposed by society on the self. She half Indian, half white, and half devil. An mocks with exasperation and sly humour, the intriguing human story about the successes and banal exploitation of “Indianness”, and of white failures, and the political evolutions, of the lives of condescension and ignorance. two men. A disturbingly frank account of treatment accorded Métis people in Western Riel Rebellion, The: A Biographical Approach Canada. (Teacher’s guide and student book) 971.054: HOU Prison of Grass: Canada from a Native Point of Charles and Cynthia Hou View 971.004: ADA Saskatchewan Guide to Historic Sites of the North Howard Adams West Rebellion, The Adams objects to the popular historical notion that 971: KAR Natives were warring savages, without Arlene Karpan and Robin Karpan government, seeking to be civilized. He contrasts This book commemorates the centenary of the the official history found in the federal Northwest Rebellion. government’s documents with the unpublished history of the Indian and Métis people. In this new Ste Madeleine – Community without a Town edition Howard Adams brings the latest statistics 305.8: ZEI to bear on these arguments and provides a new Ken & Victoria Zeilig Preface. Ste. Madeleine was a traditional Metis community that was lost under the Prairie Farm Rehab. Act. Remembrances: Métis Veterans [WWI/ WWII/Korea] Stories of the Road Allowance People 940: GAB 813.54: CAM Gabriel Dumont Institute of Métis Studies and Translated by Maria Campbell Applied Research Inc. Interviews with Métis In this unique collection, Maria Campbell has Veterans. translated eight stories from her elders and presents them in their true oral form. The humour Retro Girl and warmth of these stories are clearly heard in the 813.6: THO dialect and rhythm of the storytellers of a past T.D. Thompson generation. Her respect for the elders and their Ari dreams of having a normal family and Michif language is apparent in this important book embarks on a mission of self-improvement that that contributes to the study and teaching of involves Deena, a Metis student, whose past is a Native literature in Canada. mystery. Stories of Our People Really Good Brown Girl, A 741.5: FLE 811.54: DUM Norman Fleury et al Marilyn Dumont A Métis graphic novel anthology Marilyn Dumont is a Métis poet with attitude, courage and clarity. In a voice that is fierce, direct Métis Resources 4 Updated: 7/3/2018 Struggle for Recognition, The humour. He describes the Métis storytelling of his GS 345.7: MAN childhood, the fur buying traditions of his family, Canadian Justice and the Métis Nation and the history of one of Canada’s oldest This book traces the struggle of the Métis to retain communities. and develop their own legal system in the colonial context, and documents the present-day impact of Where the Rivers Meet the legal system upon the Métis people. 813.54: SAW Don Sawyer Thunder through my Veins: Memories of a Métis Grade 8 to 12 Childhood After tragedy turns her world, high school senior 811.54: SCO Nancy Antoine searches for meaning in her life. Gregory Scofield The traditions of her people offer a lifeline, but is Gregory Scofield’s traumatic, tender and she strong enough? redeeming story of his fight to discover himself despite displacement heightened by poverty, White Eagle Speaks illness, abuse and loss. Separated from his mother 811.6: CAR at just five, he was sent to live with strangers and Leonard Carriere extended family. As he grew, clinging to the edge Grades 9 to 12 of an already misunderstood society, Gregory Métis Poetry: Reflection of lives and passing faced his own rejection from both the Native and thoughts.
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