Tag: Minnesota History Magazine

  • The Indians and the Metis: genealogical sources on Minnesota’s earliest settlers Minnesota History Magazine Volume 46, Number 7 (Fall 1979) pages 286-296 Virginia Rogers Editors Preface GENEALOGISTS have long hesitated to do research on Minnesota’s Indian and métis or mixed-blood population. The fact that Indian and related métis peoples participated in a largely ond culture may…

  • Louis Riel and the dispersion of the American Métis Minnesota History Magazine Volume 49, Issue 5 (1985) Pages 179-190 Thomas Flanagan, Professor of Political Science University of Calgary, Alberta THE MÉTIS leader Louis Riel is perhaps best known to readers of Minnesota History in connection with the Red River insurrection of 1869-70. When Canada agreed…