Métis buffalo hunting
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Métis buffalo hunting began on the North American plains in the late 1700s and continued until 1878. The great buffalo hunts were subsistence, political, economic, and military operations for Métis fa
Homes on narrow river lots along the Red River near St. Boniface in July, 1822 by Peter Rindisbacher
Paul Kane witnessed and participated in the annual Métis buffalo hunt in June 1846 on the prairies in Dakota.
Métis hunting camp in 1873 in the Three Buttes and Milk River Lake, Alberta region (lithograph)
Métis camp in 1874
Pemmican
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Pemmican is a mixture of tallow, dried meat, and sometimes dried berries. A calorie-rich food, it can be eaten raw or used as a component of prepared foods such as stews. Historically, it was an impor
Métis buffalo hunting
…with their wives and children leaving a few behind to take care of the crops. The warmer temperatures made this season ideal for producing dried meat, pemmican, and buffalo tongue, which the Métis would trade most often with the Hudson Bay company. In 1840 the settlement had over 4,800 people of which 1,630…
Pemmican ball
Chokeberries (Aronia prunifolia) sometimes are added to pemmican.
Demonstration at the Calgary Stampede of a traditional method of drying meat for pemmican
Bison meat drying at a Métis settlement in St. François Xavier, Manitoba, Canada (1899), Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1989-492-2