Metis

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My hero Gabriel Dumont. He features prominently in my book, as does Riel. They were fascinating characters.
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Fort Garry, at the junction of the Red & Assiniboine Rivers in 1869, just when the Métis, who had lived here in peace for generations, were starting to feel threatened by the actions of the Canadian Government. Painted by Lionel Macdonald Stephenson, a 15 year old resident, who was to paint many of these and sell them to the soldiers sent west, in 1870, to put the Métis in their place.
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Scottish Metis woman with shawl, Red River, Manitoba. [1870s?] Date: [ca. 1870s]
1880s Ojibway (First Nations) or Métis Beaded Skin Coat (detail) at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto - This was given to Dr. Charles Trick Currelly, first director of the Royal Ontario Museum (and whose photograph appears in the lower left corner), when he was in Manitoba as a Methodist lay preacher in 1888-1889.
1880s Ojibway (First Nations) or Métis Beaded Skin Coat (detail) at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto - This was given to Dr. Charles Trick Currelly, first director of the Royal Ontario Museum (and whose photograph appears in the lower left corner), when he was in Manitoba as a Methodist lay preacher in 1888-1889.
1880s Ojibway (First Nations) or Métis Beaded Skin Coat at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto - This was given to Dr. Charles Trick Currelly, first director of the Royal Ontario Museum (and whose photograph appears in the lower left corner), when he was in Manitoba as a Methodist lay preacher in 1888-1889.
1880s Ojibway (First Nations) or Métis Beaded Skin Coat (detail) at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto - This was given to Dr. Charles Trick Currelly, first director of the Royal Ontario Museum (and whose photograph appears in the lower left corner), when he was in Manitoba as a Methodist lay preacher in 1888-1889.
1880s Ojibway (First Nations) or Métis Beaded Skin Coat at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto - This was given to Dr. Charles Trick Currelly, first director of the Royal Ontario Museum (and whose photograph appears in the lower left corner), when he was in Manitoba as a Methodist lay preacher in 1888-1889.
1880s Ojibway (First Nations) or Métis Beaded Skin Coat (detail) at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto - This was given to Dr. Charles Trick Currelly, first director of the Royal Ontario Museum (and whose photograph appears in the lower left corner), when he was in Manitoba as a Methodist lay preacher in 1888-1889.
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Quilled horse crupper, probably Red River Metis, Manitoba, Canada, circa 1850