Paul Kane was an Irish-born Canadian painter, famous for his paintings of First Nations peoples in the Canadian West and other Native Americans in the Columbia District.
Self-portrait, circa 1845
An early portrait (ca. 1834–36) attributed to Paul Kane, showing Mrs. Eliza Clarke Cory Clench
Ojibwa camp at the shores of Georgian Bay; a typical field sketch of Kane's from his first trip 1845
Painting by Kane of a Plains Cree warrior and pipe stem carrier. Seen along the North Saskatchewan River, Saskatchewan Canada.
The Métis are an Indigenous people whose historical homelands include Canada's three Prairie Provinces, as well as parts of British Columbia, the Northwest Territories, Northwest Ontario and the northern United States. They have a shared history and culture, deriving from specific mixed European and Indigenous ancestry, which became distinct through ethnogenesis by the mid-18th century, during the early years of the North American fur trade.
Contemporary lithograph of the Battle of Batoche
The Trapper's Bride by Alfred Jacob Miller, 1837
Métis fur trader, c. 1870
Métis drivers with Red River carts, c. 1860