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Maxime Lépine's manitoba legislative assembly photograph circa 1874 via Dictionary of Canadian Biography, accessed 28 june 2026
Brazilian electric spocket compatible with three types of plug, photograph by WT-Shared, 2010. Via wikimedia commons, released into the public domain.
https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/lepine_maxime_12E.html Dictionary of Canadian Biography: LÉPINE, MAXIME (Maxime-Pierre-Théodore)
https://recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/home/record?idnumber=209461&app=fonandcol&ecopy=
Library and Archives Canada: Howard Adams fonds [textual record, graphic material]
- Adams, Howard, 1921-2001 : Born in St. Louis, Saskatchewan, a historic Métis community north of Saskatoon, in 1921, Howard Adams returned to university to continue his studies after a brief career with the RCMP and then as counsellor at a High School with the Vancouver Board of Education. Upon completing his PhD at Berkeley in 1965, he took a position with the University of Saskatchewan. In addition to teaching, he sought to serve the Métis community, both as advocate of its interests, mentor of its youth, and as president of the Métis Society of Saskatchewan, a position he held from 1968 to 1970. He left Saskatchewan in 1974 to teach Native-American history at the University of California, where he remained until 1989. In addition to teaching and advocacy, Howard Adams also wrote extensively on issues relating to the Native community. His works include "Prison of Grass: Canada from the Native Point of View" (1975) and "A Tortured People" (1995), which documents the difficulties faced by Native peoples in North American society. In recognition of his contributions to his community, be this as social activist, scholar, or writer, Howard Adams was awarded the National Aboriginal Achievement Reward in 1999.
https://teaching.usask.ca/indigenoussk/import/adams_howard_1921-2001.php
Indigenous Saskatchewan Encyclopedia: Adams, Howard (1921–2001)
- The single-minded purpose of his work was the struggle against the colonization of Indigenous people in Canada and throughout the world. He was born on September 8, 1921, at St. Louis, Saskatchewan. His mother was French-Cree and his father English-Cree;
- Growing up in St. Louis, Adams witnessed numerous acts of racism against First Nations and Métis people, which left a lasting impression and instilled in him a passion to fight for the betterment of his people.
- he enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley and completed a doctorate in 1966 in the History of Education, thereby becoming the first Canadian Métis to acquire a PhD
- When Adams returned to Canada in the mid-1960s, there was a growing cultural and political awakening among Indigenous people, and Adams immersed himself in Métis politics. Before long, he became one of the most prominent leaders of First Nations and Métis people in the province and on a national level. In 1969, he was elected president of the Métis Society of Saskatchewan, a position he held until 1970. As a political leader, Adams was a master at using protests and the media to draw public attention to the struggles of Indigenous people. He was also a gifted orator prone to espouse militant leftist views, which earned him the label of one of the most aggressive and controversial Indigenous leaders of the time. Above all, however, Adams’ political leadership during the late 1960s and early 1970s served to reinvigorate Métis pride and identity, and thereby to fan the flames of Métis nationalism that had been dormant since the post-1885 Resistance period.
- Another book, Prison of Grass: Canada from the Native Point of View, published in 1975, thrust him into the national and international limelight. Seen as groundbreaking because it was written by a Métis scholar and from a Marxist perspective, the premise of the book was that the deplorable conditions of Indian and Métis people in Canada were the product of three centuries of colonization
- He died on September 8, 2001, in Vancouver.
https://abcbookworld.com/writer/adams-howard/
ABC Bookworld: Adams, Howard (Métis)
https://springmag.ca/indigenous-socialism-the-life-and-politics-of-howard-adams
SpringMag: Indigenous socialism: the life and politics of Howard Adams, Jesse McLaren, 6 september 2019
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