A writer exploring the rise of the Métis nation through the eyes of Marie-Anne Gaboury. Blog topics include early Western Canadian/ Rupert's Land history, honouring Cree, Saulteaux, and Métis people, colonization and the fur trade, feminist responses to historical injustices, Red River Settlement, Chief Peguis, Iron Confederacy, how the conflict between Anglo and Franco, Protestant and Catholic spilled into the west with devastating effects, the rivalry between the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company, smallpox and the HBC, and much more from the period from 1786-1856.
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