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Citing lost hunting rights in Wood Buffalo National Park dating back to 1922, the Northwest Territory Métis Nation is seeking $120 million in compensation; it also wants the story of how their ...
It was a big industry going on the buffalo hunts in times over a 1,000 carts eventually and then you had ... And you have to also remember it wasn't the Metis that exterminated all the buffalo.
OTTAWA - Alberta Metis are taking their fight for province-wide hunting and fishing rights to the Supreme Court of Canada. The Metis Nation of Alberta has filed arguments seeking leave to appeal a ...
Brigades of Métis hunters with ox-drawn wooden carts went after buffalo until the mid-19th century. The hunting of buffalo sometimes caused conflict with nearby Native American nations.
Missing from the landscape for well over a century, bison calves have returned to Métis Crossing wildlife park in Alberta, a moment the CEO of the park says people have been discussing for decades.
Metis trappers in Fort Smith are angry about reserve land selected by the Salt River First Nation. Some of the areas identified by the Fort Smith band are on Metis traplines.
“The Gift of the Great Buffalo” by Carole Lindstrom follows the story of Rose, a young Métis-Ojibwe girl, and her family as they join other families on the prairie for the annual buffalo hunt.
Seeing the buffalo back is an important ancestral connection for my people.” Lilyrose passes me to guide Weida Johns, and we bundle into her dusty 4x4 to tour the park before sunset. She heaves ...
Buffalo Hunt is one of two new titles in Penguin’s successful Our Canadian Girl historical fiction series. (Budge Wilson’s Izzie: The Christmas That Almost Wasn’t, set in Second World War Halifax, is ...
MEDICINE HAT, Alta. – The Alberta Court of Appeal has upheld a ruling that restricts where Métis people can hunt in the province. Garry Hirsekorn was convicted in 2010 of hunting out of season ...
The Metis Nation of Alberta has filed arguments seeking leave to appeal a lower court ruling that restricts harvesting rights to areas around northern Metis settlements. The arguments focus on a ...
PABLO - The Red River Cart, hand hewn from native pine, aspen and cottonwood, and lashed together with bison hide and sinew, was a vital tool of the Metis, or Buffalo People, in the 1700s and ...