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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Dibaajimowin
Mar 22, 20223 min read
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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Dibaajimowin
Mar 21, 20222 min read
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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Dibaajimowin
Mar 21, 20223 min read
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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Dibaajimowin
Mar 21, 20222 min read
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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Dibaajimowin
Feb 10, 20223 min read
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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Dibaajimowin
Dec 31, 20212 min read
A Very Michif New Year
In his book, "Indian Boyhood", Charles Eastman (Sisseton Dakota) described the events of his first New Years celebration at a winter camp...
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Dibaajimowin
Dec 20, 20212 min read
Dashing through the snow
For the Ojibwe and other northern people, snow shoes (or aagime) were essential to winter travel, survival, and hunting. The wooden frame...
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Dibaajimowin
Dec 9, 20214 min read
The Excitement of Camp
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...
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Dibaajimowin
Dec 8, 20211 min read
Fiddling the Day Away
Metis fiddler, Alberta (ca.1900) - Reputed to be a Callihoo family member. Enhanced & colorized by Dibaajimowin (12/22/2020)
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Dibaajimowin
Dec 7, 20212 min read
The Beginning of the End
In 1860, it was reported that the annual Metis buffalo hunt started around June 15th. At that time, there were two great hunts – one...
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Dibaajimowin
Nov 29, 20211 min read
A Very Michif Christmas
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...
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Dibaajimowin
Nov 16, 20211 min read
Remembering Louis Riel
After the Métis resistance was crushed by the invading European forces, following the defeat at Batoche in May 1885, the colonizers of...
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Dibaajimowin
Nov 9, 20211 min read
An 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...
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Dibaajimowin
Oct 26, 20212 min read
J.B. Bottineau (in Memorium)
Jean Baptiste Bottineau (Boutineau), a French-Chippewa, mixed blood, successful fur-trader, surveyor, real estate broker, lawyer, justice...
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Dibaajimowin
Oct 19, 20214 min read
Born to Raise Hell
In the rough and rowdy days that followed the first Metis resistance in 1869, there was a climate of general lawlessness and rowdiness...
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Dibaajimowin
Oct 14, 20213 min read
The Red River Jig: a distinctly Indigenous dance
In traditional Indigenous communities, music and dance are some of the most important ways to preserve and promote culture and to bring...
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Dibaajimowin
Oct 10, 20212 min read
St. Joseph: The Metis Capitol of North Dakota
St. Joseph (now known as Walhalla) was, at one time, the “Métis capitol of North Dakota”. The community is located in northern North...
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Dibaajimowin
Oct 9, 20213 min read
A Metis Treaty in the U.S.?
In 1850, Minnesota Territorial Governor Alexander Ramsey was trying to solidify the position of his territory to become one of the United...
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Dibaajimowin
Oct 9, 20212 min read
The People of the Red River: The Metis Nation
Whereas, nowadays, there is much discussion and debate over what/who constituted the historical Metis Nation and who is/isn't a Metis...
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