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Holly Richard’s students engage in a wide variety of academic and co-curricular activities meant to deepen their awareness of the connections between First Nation, Métis, and Inuit histories and cultures. 

Long before Confederation, Indigenous people lived under their own complex system of rights, rules, and responsibilities.

Book Review: Rooster Town is a well-researched academic examination of a Métis settlement in south-central Winnipeg

Renaming initiative honours the histories and cultures of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples in Alberta.

In this podcast, Philippe Mailhot explains how understandings of the Red River Resistance are changing.

Effectively teaching her young students about the unique historical relationship between indigenous and non-native people of Canada was the motivation for Elizabeth Phipps when she started her Saskatchewan landscape project. Together her students created and developed a living landscape of Saskatchewan that focused on the history of First Nations, the Métis and European settlers.

Canada’s National History Society acknowledges that we meet and work across the ancestral lands of many Indigenous peoples. While the Society is based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, within Treaty 1 territory — the traditional lands of First Nation Anishinabe, Ininew, Anisininew, Dene, and Dakota and the homeland of the Métis Nation — the work of the Society extends to all ancestral lands in this place now known as Canada.

The Public Health Nurse lives at Whitehorse but has to journey to all parts of the Yukon.

Book Review: During his trial, Riel gave two passionate speeches. In the second, and lesser-known, of the two, he spoke to the court following his verdict. These speeches are the focus of Riel’s Defence, an interdisciplinary collection of essays that seeks to address these orations in new ways.

Historians, authors, humourist, and broadcaster — we asked nine of them “Who’s your secret history idol?” The answers may surprise you.