Vocabulary
This term describes the characteristics and values people use to express who they are.
What is identity?
This mixed language spoken by many Métis combined First Nations, French, and English.
What is Michif?
The year the Red River Resistance began.
What is 1869?
This act officially created Manitoba as a province.
What is the Manitoba Act?
The Métis leader and president of the Provisional Government.
Who is Louis Riel?
Children of First Nations and European parents were known as this group.
Who are the Metis?
The Métis were well known for hunting this animal for food and trade.
What are buffalo?
The Métis leader who demanded the surveyors leave Red River.
Who is Louis Riel?
The year Manitoba became Canada’s fifth province.
What is 1870?
The Métis leader who helped bring Riel back to Canada in 1885.
Who was Gabriel Dumont?
A process where one culture is absorbed into another dominant culture.
What is assimilation?
A food made of dried buffalo meat, fat, and berries.
What is pemmican?
The fort taken over by the Métis during the resistance.
What is Fort Garry?
This prime minister negotiated the creation of Manitoba.
Who was John A. Macdonald?
The location where the final battle of the Métis resistance took place.
What is Batoche?
A document created by the Métis Provisional Government listing demands to Canada.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Large boats used to transport goods in the fur trade.
What are York boats?
The government created by the Métis to negotiate with Canada.
What is the Métis Provisional Government?
The Métis were promised this amount of land (in acres) for their families.
What is 240 acres per family?
Riel was executed for committing this crime against Canada.
What is treason?
This was the land owned by the Hudson’s Bay Company before Canada purchased it.
What is Rupert’s Land?
The Métis economy depended heavily on this industry.
What is the fur trade?
This man was executed by the Métis government, causing anger in Ontario.
Who was Thomas Scott?
The act guaranteed the use of these two languages in government and courts.
What are French and English?
The year Louis Riel was executed.
What is 1885?