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- mid 1800's Rupert's land
In 1670, the British Crown gave permision for the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) to own a large area of land called Rurert's land.The area of region included prairie grassland that was part of the fields of the great buffalo herds/comunity.
Rupert's land was home to many First Nations/Aboriginal, Metis people, and a few that were non-Aboriginal fur traders. By the bigining of the early ninteteenth century, trading post were scattered throughout the whole region. -
's The Great Buffalo Economy.
By the time it reached the early nineteenth century, a few groups of First Nations (FN) and Metis people (MP) who had once lived on the beautifull prairies had an iterest in political connections with the British North American colonies. Most being the 3, social,political, and economic. -
The Red river conflict
The area of land that today is now known as Manitoba had once had a formal immigration program in the earliest of the 19th century. -
's The buffalo hunt pt.2
The buffalo herds that once suported (FN) First Nations on the grassland for centuries drove into quick decline.
(FS) and (MP) were under pressure. Both livelihoods were quicly diappearing. They also had to face settlers and pololiticians for obvious resones. -
the edge of extinction
First Nations used pretty much every part of the buffalo they had slaughtered. Traditionally a lot of communities only took what they needed for thier own use, with some left over trade for items they could not produce by themselves. Metis buffalo hunting traditions wen't through a different pattern. both in First Nations and Metis traditions, when they had gonehunting for buffalo it had to be highly organized. A normal buffalo hunt involved many diferent people in the comunitie.
