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Library Resources

Halfbreed by Campbell, Maria
Call Number: PS 8555 A67 H3
Memoir growing up Métis in the Road Allowances.
Threads in the Sash by Fred J. Shore
Call Number: FC 109 S467 2017
See chapter 8: The Road Allowance Years.
Metis, people between two worlds by Harrison, Julia D.
Call Number: FC 109 H37 1985
The story of the Métis from the days of the fur trade to the present.
From the Ashes by Jesse Thistle
Call Number: FC 109.1 T45 A3 2019
In this heartwarming and heartbreaking memoir, Jesse Thistle writes honestly and fearlessly about his painful experiences with abuse, uncovering the truth about his parents, and how he found his way back into the circle of his Indigenous culture and family through education.
Stories of the Road Allowance People by Maria Campbell; Sherry F. Rocette (Illustrator); Sherry Farell Racette (Illustrator)
Call Number: PS 8555 A67 S76 1995
I remember a warm kitchen on a stormy winter night. I am sitting on the floor with my Cheechum and the old ladies. The room is full of grandpas, mammas and papas, aunties, uncles and cousins...
Government and Politics of the Alberta Metis Settlements by T. C. Pocklington
Call Number: FC 126 A4 P63 1991
Examines the internal political institutions and processes, and the external political relationships of the eight legally recognized Métis settlements of Northern Alberta. Includes references to "people living in road allowances."

CBC News: Forced to live on roadsides: the dark history of Métis road allowances
CBC News podcast on the history of the Road Allowance People
Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada
Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada: Road Allowance People
Mapping Métis Stories: Land Use, Gender and Kinship in the Qu'Appelle Valley, 1850-1950
A University of Saskatchewan Dissertation
University of Saskatchewan Gladue Rights Research Database--Road Allowance People Interviews, Primary Sources
Primary sources include interviews with people who experienced living in the road allowances, economic conditions, living conditions, Metis Migration Following the North-West Resistance (North-West Rebellion), and Métis Economic Activity Post-Resistance / Post-1870 and Post-1885. after a person’s conviction and prior to sentencing. This database provides researchers with information pertaining to the history of settler colonialism in the province of Saskatchewan up to c. 1990.
University of Waterloo's Institutional Repository Thesis
The Puzzle of the Morrissette-Arcand Clan: A History Of Metis Historic and Intergenerational Trauma: This thesis explores how members of the Morrissette-Arcand clan, a Metis road allowance family from Saskatchewan, endured intergenerational trauma since being displaced from Red River in the 1870s.

Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
The Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) concerns government policy with respect to the original historical nations of this country. Those nations are important to Canada, and how Canada relates to them defines in large measure its sense of justice and its image in its own eyes and before the world. Five volumes, which include discussion of Métis land occupation, are linked here.

One of the Family by Brenda MacDougall
Call Number: FC 113 M33 2010
In this groundbreaking study, Brenda Macdougall employs the concept of wahkootowin - the Cree term for a worldview that privileges family and values interconnectedness...
Canada and the Métis, 1869-1885 by D. N. Sprague; Thomas R. Berger (Foreword by)
Call Number: FC 109 S67 1988
Why Métis people didn't receive the land mandated to them under the Manitoba Act.
Homeland to Hinterland by Gerhard J. Ens
Call Number: FC 109 E67 1996
Most writing on Metis history has concentrated on the Resistance of 1869-70 and the Rebellion of 1885, without adequately explaining the social and economic origins of the Metis that shaped those conflicts.
Metis and the medicine line : creating a border and dividing a people by Hogue, Michel
Call Number: E 99 M47 H64 2015
Metis and the Medicine Line is a sprawling, ambitious look at how national borders and notions of race were created and manipulated to unlock access to indigenous lands.