# data[].attributes.headline
"After Lépine's trial, in November 1874, André Nault and Elzéar Lagimodière were also tried for the murder of Thomas Scott." (267)

# data[].attributes.subject
"After Lépine's trial, in November 1874, André Nault and Elzéar Lagimodière were also tried for the murder of Thomas Scott." (267)

# data[].attributes.body
The sons and daughters of the northmen or Freemen
"They began to think, act and identify as a separate group." (36)

# data[].attributes.headline
"In Michif, paashkiiyaakanaan means "We won!" The term does not translate as mere victory; it carries a tone of triumphant self-congratulation." (66)

# data[].attributes.subject
"In Michif, paashkiiyaakanaan means "We won!" The term does not translate as mere victory; it carries a tone of triumphant self-congratulation." (66)

# data[].attributes.headline
"The surveyors, newly arrived, certainly saw the existing system, but they made no attempt to protect it. There was no room in their survey system for commonly held land." (181)

# data[].attributes.subject
"The surveyors, newly arrived, certainly saw the existing system, but they made no attempt to protect it. There was no room in their survey system for commonly held land." (181)

# data[].attributes.headline
"Having lost their lands to the speculators through the survey, homestead and scrip processes, the Metis lived wherever they could as long as they could, and then when pushed off their lands, they moved to public lands available along railroads, roads and Crown lands. There, they built cabins and took on yet another name: the "road allowance people." (420)

# data[].attributes.subject
"Having lost their lands to the speculators through the survey, homestead and scrip processes, the Metis lived wherever they could as long as they could, and then when pushed off their lands, they moved to public lands available along railroads, roads and Crown lands. There, they built cabins and took on yet another name: the "road allowance people." (420)

# data[].attributes.headline
"For the Métis, family was the basic unit of life, the relationship, or wahkootowin, around which all life revolved, including social customs, marriage, trade and the economy. ... Reciprocity, mutual support and the sharing ethic were the central values of the Métis family." (90)

# data[].attributes.subject
"For the Métis, family was the basic unit of life, the relationship, or wahkootowin, around which all life revolved, including social customs, marriage, trade and the economy. ... Reciprocity, mutual support and the sharing ethic were the central values of the Métis family." (90)

# data[].attributes.headline
"[...] the Provisional Government wanted peace and the rights of all, but it was prepared for war." (212)

# data[].attributes.subject
"[...] the Provisional Government wanted peace and the rights of all, but it was prepared for war." (212)

# data[].attributes.body
"The Church defended its actions by claiming that the experiment had not "been a of such degree as to encourage them in continuance of effort in that direction." This was despite the fact the priests were making money off the Metis reserve." ( 399)

# data[].attributes.headline
"As the voyageurs intermarried with the Great Lakes Indigenous peoples a new group of Métis , dedicated to the fur trade, began to appear." (12)

# data[].attributes.subject
"As the voyageurs intermarried with the Great Lakes Indigenous peoples a new group of Métis , dedicated to the fur trade, began to appear." (12)

# data[].attributes.headline
"The organization of the buffalo hunt with its captains, chain of command and laws of the hunt evolved into an efficient, effective and democratic Bois-Brûlés government." (97)

# data[].attributes.subject
"The organization of the buffalo hunt with its captains, chain of command and laws of the hunt evolved into an efficient, effective and democratic Bois-Brûlés government." (97)

# data[].attributes.headline
"When Macdonell ordered that pemmican be seized from the Nor'Westers, he exposed his willingness to use violence." (47)

# data[].attributes.subject
"When Macdonell ordered that pemmican be seized from the Nor'Westers, he exposed his willingness to use violence." (47)

# data[].attributes.body
Confederation of Manitoba

# data[].attributes.headline
"The social glue that originally bound people together to create ancient cultures is often buried deep in history and predates our written accounts and historical memories." (10)

# data[].attributes.subject
"The social glue that originally bound people together to create ancient cultures is often buried deep in history and predates our written accounts and historical memories." (10)

# data[].attributes.body
Common lands
River lots
Mobility/Wintering

# data[].attributes.body
Métis law was typically derived from First Nations laws with some French influence

Laws of the Hunt
Laws of the Prairie (Red River Code)
Laws of St. Laurent

# data[].attributes.body
Red River
The Plains
Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta; some small bits of Ontario, British Columbia, the Northwest Territories, and United States

# data[].attributes.body
Fur trade
Battle and resistance
Land theft
Merged into the Hudson's Bay Company

# data[].attributes.body
Pemmican Wars

During the Pemmican Wars the Selkirk Settlement limited access to food, wood, land, and other resources strictly to settlers

Fur trade laws

Fur trade laws were developed to expand colonization and consolidate power to the HBC and NWC

# data[].attributes.body
The Indian Act

Scrip

# data[].attributes.body
(primarily 1885-2000)

Felix Calliou
Harry Daniels
Jim Brady
Joseph Dion
Malcolm Norris
The Old Wolves
Peter Tompkins

# data[].attributes.body
Relationality
Métis mobility
Laws and governance
Kinship ties
Colonialism

# data[].attributes.body
Kinship ties
Buffalo hunt
Fur trade

# data[].attributes.body
Kinship ties
Resources
Hunting brigades
Leaders

# data[].attributes.body
Métis National Council

provincial Métis bodies

Provisional Government

# data[].attributes.body
St. Paul des Metis
Conservative Party Election
One Man to Blame Theory
Assimilation
Residential Schools

# data[].attributes.body
Freedom, liberty, sharing, equality

# data[].attributes.body
Father Lacombe
John A. Macdonald
William MacDougall
Selkirk Settlers
Thomas Scott
The Orange Lodge
Canadian Party/Canada First movement

# data[].attributes.body
Land theft
Railway
Roads

Road allowance

Scrip
Surveying

# data[].attributes.body
(primarily pre-1885)

Cuthbert Grant
Gabriel Dumont
Jean-Louis Riel
Louis Riel

# data[].attributes.body
(primarily 2000-present)

Cassidy Caron
Clément Chartier
David Chartrand
Elmer Ghostkeeper
Jim Sinclair
Maria Campbell
Thelma Chalifoux

# data[].attributes.body
Buffalo hunt
Voyageur highway
Freemen

# data[].attributes.body
Victory at Frog Plain
Battle of Grand Coteau
North-West Resistance
Battle of Batoche

# data[].attributes.body
Sayer Trial

ended HBC fur trade monopoly, petitions to better represent Métis interests

Riel Trial

Riel tried and executed for his part in the North-West Resistance, and as revenge for Thomas Scott

The trials of Ambroise Lépine, André Nault and Elzéar Lagimodière

# data[].attributes.body
Indigenous laws (Métis, First Nations)
British law
French law
Canadian law

# data[].attributes.body
Beadwork
Buffalo hunt
Horsemanship
Songs
Spirituality
Stories

# data[].attributes.body
A Cree term representing the worldview that all beings are connected, the individual self can only be fully understood in relation to other beings.

Kinship
Land
Relationality

# data[].attributes.body
Pictured: Louis Riel speaks at his trial

# data[].attributes.body
Pictured: the detached head of a John A. Macdonald statue

# data[].attributes.body
Pictured: the five founders of the Métis Association of Alberta

# data[].attributes.body
Pictured: the Métis national flag