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Jul 14, 2021, 6 tweets

"Manitoba History: The French Presence in the West, 1734-1874": mhs.mb.ca/docs/mb_histor…

institutions onto the Prairies./ Manitoba History_ The French Presence in the West, 1734-1874.- it was the francophone majority at Red River who protested most effectively. Manitoba entered Confederation in 1870 as a bilingual and bicultural province.

The_Forks_of_the_Red_and_Assiniboine were part of New France. 1988-The_Forks_of_the_Red_and_Assiniboine_Thematic_History_1734-1850_Report.- in the early 18th century French commercial interests operating from New France established a network of trade and provisioning posts in the

West./ 1988 The_Forks_of_the_Red_and_Assiniboine_Thematic_History_1734-1850_Report.- it was hoped these posts would effectively extend French commercial hegemony throughout the western half of the continent.

white settler revisionism and making metis everywhere - adam gaudry and darryl leroux - use of long ago racial mixing to reimagine a Metis identity that prioritizes mixed race ancestry and disregards

French Colonization of the America's - Cardinal Richelieu issues an act declaring that Indians converted to Catholicism were considered as -natural Frenchmen- by the Ordonnance of 1627, made them into natural French Citizens.

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