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History of the Metis Nation

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There is a missing chapter in the narrative of Canada’s Indigenous peoples—the story of the Métis Nation, a new Indigenous people descended from both First Nations and Europeans

Their story begins in the last decade of the eighteenth century in the Canadian North-West. Within twenty years the Métis proclaimed themselves a nation and won their first battle. Within forty years they were famous throughout North America for their military skills, their nomadic life and their buffalo hunts.

The Métis Nation didn’t just drift slowly into the Canadian consciousness in the early 1800s; it burst onto the scene fully formed. The Métis were flamboyant, defiant, loud and definitely not noble savages. They were nomads with a very different way of being in the world—always on the move, very much in the moment, passionate and fierce. They were romantics and visionaries with big dreams. They battled continuously—for recognition, for their lands and for their rights and freedoms. In 1870 and 1885, led by the iconic Louis Riel, they fought back when Canada took their lands. These acts of resistance became defining moments in Canadian history, with implications that reverberate to this day: Western alienation, Indigenous rights and the French/English divide.

After being defeated at the Battle of Batoche in 1885, the Métis lived in hiding for twenty years. But early in the twentieth century, they determined to hide no more and began a long, successful fight back into the Canadian consciousness. The Métis people are now recognized in Canada as a distinct Indigenous nation. Written by the great-grandniece of Louis Riel, this popular and engaging history of “forgotten people” tells the story up to the present era of national reconciliation with Indigenous peoples.

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In 1993, the Métis Nation of Ontario (MNO) was established through the will of Métis people and Métis communities coming together throughout Ontario to create a Métis-specific governance structure. Prior to 1993, Métis had been involved in pan-Indigenous lobby groups and organizations. The MNO was not created to represent all individuals and communities that claim to be Métis, but those individuals and communities that are a part of the Métis Nation.

https://archive.org/details/metisnation-self-government

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Homeschoolers Kit- Worksheets

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This Kit is designed to help homeschooling parents teach various skills to their kids. It includes numerous worksheets to help the kids gain basic learning skills,or think creatively -spelling and Math sheets (Alphabet sheets, Spelling Practice, Numbers and Counting, Addition and Subtraction, Multiplication and Division Sheets); It would also be beneficial for the non-homeschoolers.

Please purchase this Kit- and help our team with their creative effort;

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Salah – Prayer to the Soul

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Prayer to the Soul:

Prayer – to the Soul,
As Medicine to the patient.

Bitter- sweet, candy taste,
When Losing Concentration.

Brown- sugar, pleasing, aromatic flavour,
As bear savoring delicious Honey comb.

Constancy, Increased practice,
The sweeter, lovelier the Flavour,

Path to Submission, Khushu,
Delight on being a True Abd,
To his/ her Rubb (Lord).

#Prayer, #Soul, Blessings, #Islam, #Poem

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WRITING APPS/ NOTES/ STORIES

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REEDSY STUDIO

https://reedsy.com/resources/writing-apps/book/

Every writer needs a Studio

A place to plan, draft, edit, and typeset your book.

https://reedsy.com/studio – REEDSY STUDIO – Online Story and Notes Writing;

https://gottcode.org/focuswriter/ – FOCUS WRITER

FocusWriter is a simple, distraction-free word processor. It utilizes a hide-away interface that you access by moving your mouse to the edges of the screen, allowing the program to have a familiar look and feel to it while still getting out of the way so that you can immerse yourself in your work.

FocusWriter allows you to customize your environment by creating themes that control the font, colors, and background image to add ambiance. It also features on-the-fly updating statistics, daily goals, multiple open documents, spell-checking, and much more.

Additionally, when you open the program your current work in progress will automatically load and position you where you last left off so that you can immediately jump back in.

SSuite Wordgraph Editor

SSuite WordGraph is a free and very useful alternative to Microsoft’s Word, OpenOffice’s Writer, or anything else out there claiming to be the latest and greatest. You don’t even have a need for .NET or even JAVA to be installed. This will save you a lot of hard drive space and precious computer resources.

Platforms: Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Chrome, Android, PC

Best for: Drafting, Story, Book, Essay, and Free

Website: https://www.ssuiteoffice.com/software/wordgraph.htm

SSuite Wordgraph Editor

CAMPFIRE -ONLINE WRITING

https://www.campfirewriting.com

GOODNOTES

Capture every detail

Use the flexibility of voice, text, or Goodnotes’ renowned digital handwriting to capture any thought, in a digital notebook, Whiteboard, or a Text Document.

* Wavemaker

So, You’re looking to write a book. Well, wavemaker is here to help. It’s much much more than a text editor.

Platforms: Mac, Windows, Chrome, Android, Online, PC

Best for: Outlining, Drafting, Book, Story, and Free

Website: https://wavemaker.cards/

Base price: Free; Premium price: –

Connects to Google Docs; Mind maps Timelines

Scrivener

https://www.literatureandlatte.com

Scrivener is the go-to app for writers of all kinds, used every day by best-selling novelists, screenwriters, non-fiction writers, students, academics, lawyers, journalists, translators and more.

Platforms: Mac, Windows, iPhone, iPad, PC

Best for: Outlining, Drafting, Editing, Publishing, Book, and Story

Website: https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview ; Base price: $59.99 one-time payment

Premium price: – Flexible corkboard Structure outliner

Metadata and target setting Print and export functionalities

Textilus Pro

Textilus Pro is a great word processor app for students and business people, also being excellent for writing reports, papers, blog posts, journals or ebooks! Textilus Pro can help you organize your research, generate ideas, and remove distractions so you can focus on the most important thing: writing. Platforms: Mac, iPhone, iPad

Best for: Note-taking, Drafting, Blog, Essay, and Free

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/word-processor-textilus-pro/id1018671847

What is yWriter?

yWriter is a powerful novel-writing program which is free to download and use. It’s designed for Windows 7 and later.yWriter is a word processor which breaks your novel into chapters and scenes, helping you keep track of your work while leaving your mind free to create. It will not write your novel for you, suggest plot ideas or perform creative tasks of any kind. yWriter was designed by an author, not a salesman!

yWriter7 is free to download and use, but you’re encouraged to register your copy if you find it useful.

If you’re just embarking on your first novel a program like yWriter may seem like overkill. I mean, all you have to do is type everything into a word processor! Sure, but wait until you hit 20,000 words, with missing scenes and chapters, notes all over your desk, characters and locations and plot points you’ve just added and which need to be referenced earlier … it becomes a real struggle. Now imagine that same novel at 40,000 or 80,000 words! No wonder most first-time writers give up.

https://www.spacejock.com/yWriter7_Download.html

*Mellel

Mellel is a word processor designed from the ground up to be the ultimate writing tool for academics, technical writers, scholars and students. Mellel is strong, stable and reliable, and is the ideal companion for working on documents that are long and complex, short and simple, or anything in between.

Platforms: Mac, iPhone, iPad Best for: Outlining, Drafting, and Essay

Website: https://mellel.com/

Base price: $49.00 one-time payment

Outline Bibliography Footnotes and endnotes

Multilingual support

Apple Pages

Pages is a powerful word processor that lets you create stunning documents, and comes included with most Apple devices. And with real-time collaboration, your team can work together from anywhere, whether they’re on Mac, iPad, iPhone, or a PC.

Platforms: iPad, Mac, iPhone

Best for: Drafting, Book, Essay, Journal, Poetry, Story, Blog, and Free

Website: https://www.apple.com/pages/

Base price: Free

Full feature word processor Track changes

Syncs across devices Offline collaboration

https://bear.app

Seamless Markdown – Bear App

  • Work your way with text, photos, tables, and todo lists, all in the same note
  • Easily organize notes and projects with flexible tags
  • Format notes with simple Markdown that adapts to any situation

LibreOffice

LibreOffice is a free and powerful office suite, and a successor to OpenOffice.org (commonly known as OpenOffice). Its clean interface and feature-rich tools help you unleash your creativity and enhance your productivity.

Platforms: Mac, Windows, PC

Best for: Drafting, Book, Essay, Journal, Poetry, Story, Blog, and Free

Website: https://www.libreoffice.org/ – Base price: Free

Full-feature word processor Customizable fonts and other styles

*Lists for Writers

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Are you stuck in a rut? Do you have writer’s block? Need a quick plot idea for that short story writing assignment that’s due tomorrow? Lists for Writers is here to help!

What is it? Lists for Writers is exactly that – lists for writers. We’ve compiled a variety of lists to help writers, both young and old, come up with brainstorming ideas.

Lists for Writers is a great addition to any writer’s toolbox. Helpful to both novice and expert writers alike, this app delivers list after list of prompts and ideas for your brainstorming sessions: names, character traits, plot lines, occupations, obsessions, action verbs, and much more! Whether you are working on a creative writing project, a short story, an essay assignment, National Novel Writing Month / NaNoWriMo, or your next fiction book, this app helps get it done.

It is available now in the iTunes App Store and is a universal app that works for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. It is also available for Android in the Google Play Android market, for Android and Kindle Fire in the Amazon Appstore for Android, for NOOK in the NOOK store, for Windows Phone in the Windows Phone Store, and for BlackBerry 10 in BlackBerry World.

Website: https://thinkamingo.com/lists-for-writers/

Simple Note:

https://simplenote.com

The simplest way to keep notes

All your notes, synced on all your devices. Get Simplenote now for iOS, Android, Mac, Windows, Linux, or in your browser.

* ApolloPad

ApolloPad is a feature-packed online writing environment that will help you finish your novels, ebooks and short stories.

Platforms: Online

Best for: Outlining, Drafting, Story, Book, and Free

Website: https://apollopad.com/ -Base price: Free

Project outlining & timelines Notes in context To-do lists

https://thequill.app – The Quill App

* WPS Office

WPS Office is a lightweight, feature-rich comprehensive office suite with high compatibility. As a handy and professional office software, WPS Office allows you to edit files in Writer, Presentation, Spreadsheet, and PDF to improve your work efficiency.

Platforms: Mac, Windows, Android, iPad, iPhone, PC

Best for: Drafting, Book, Essay, Journal, Poetry, Story, Blog, and Free

Website: https://www.wps.com/

Base price: Free Premium price: $29.99 monthly

Cross platform file management Free templates Colorful themes

* Novelist

Still looking for the perfect app to write your novel? Novelist might just be the perfect tool for the job!

Platforms: Android, iPhone, iPad, Online

Best for: Outlining, Worldbuilding, Drafting, Story, Book, and Free

Website: https://www.novelist.app/ -Base price: Free

Goal setting Rich text editor Back up and restore

SQUIBLER

https://www.squibler.io

Turn Your Idea into a Story

Write books, novels, and screenplays by chatting with AI. Say goodbye to writer’s block.

Rhymer’s Block

A real-time rhyme suggestion engine offering color-coded rhyme highlighting, the ability to save your work to the cloud, the power to embed SoundCloud jams into your notes, customizable visual layouts, and more.

Platforms: Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android

Best for: Drafting, Poetry, and Free

Website: https://www.rhymersblock.com/welcome

Base price: Free

Real-time ryhme suggestions Slant/near ryhme suggestions

Word frequency analysis Color-coded ryhmes

* Craft

Create documents, make impact. When your work needs to wow, Craft gives you the tools to make it magnificent.

Platforms: Mac, iPhone, iPad, Windows, Online, PC

Best for: Note-taking, Drafting, Journal, Essay, Blog, and Free

Website: https://www.craft.do/

Base price: Free; Premium price: $5.00 monthly

AI writing assistant Document structuring

Customizable Collaboration

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The Ojibwe Language

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https://ciel.utsc.utoronto.ca/ojibwe-textbook/lesson/1?dialect=southwestern

Source: Ethnologue

Written Ojibwe

In about 1830 James Evans, a Wesleyan missionary, devised a way to write the Ojibwe language of Rice Lake with the Latin alphabet. His goal was to produce a dictionary of Ojibwe to help him to learn the language better, and to help him teach English to the Ojibwe people.

In about 1840, while working at Norway House in Hudson’s Bay, Evans invented a syllabic script for the Ojibwe language, based partly on Pitman shorthand, which had been published in 1837. It is thought that his idea to create a syllabic script was based on the Cherokee script.

Evans’ syllabary for Ojibwe consisted of just nine symbols, each of which could be written in four different orientations to indicate different vowels. This was sufficient to write Ojibwe. Evans translated parts of the Bible and other religious works into Ojibwe, and later Cree, and printed them using type carved from wood, or made from melted-down linings of tea chests.

Evans later adapted it to write Cree. The script proved popular with Ojibwe and Cree speakers, and within about 10 years, many of them had learnt to read and write it, learning mainly from family or friends. As paper was scarce at the time, they wrote on birch bark with soot from burnt sticks, or carved messages in wood, and nicknamed James Evans ‘The man who made birch bark talk’.

The Ojibwe script continued to be widely used until the 1950s and 1960s, when the integration policies of Department of Indian and Northern Affairs led to a decline in use to the script among Ojibwe children taught to write in the Roman alphabet.

Main source: Murdoch, John Stewart, Syllabics: A Successful Educational Innovation (University of Manitoba, 1981).

Notable features of the Ojibwe syllabary

  • Type of writing system: Syllabary
  • Writing direction: left to right in horizontal lines
  • Used to write: Ojibwe (Anishinaabemowin / ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᒧᐎᓐ)
  • Each sign can be written facing four different directions which indicate the vowel attached to it
  • The finals are used to write stand-alone consonants
  • There are considerable variations in the way the symbols are written

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VAI verbs – Grammar Structure

Ojibwe is a language of verbs. Most of the information in a sentence is carried by verbs, and verbs also tend to carry out functions that are covered by other parts of speech in other languages. For example, Nimbakade – I am hungry. This is a verb. Ojibwe doesn’t really have adjectives. To express that someone or something is in a given state or has a certain property, you almost always use a verb.

Traditional analysis of the grammar of Ojibwe (and related languages) suggests that there are four major categories of verbs in the language. Each category has its own set of prefixes and suffixes. It adds up to a lot to memorize, but don’t worry, we will take you through it step by step, one lesson at a time.

To understand the four categories, it helps to know that Ojibwe nouns come in two kinds, or “genders.” These genders are not male and female as you might be familiar with in certain European languages, but rather animate and inanimate. Animate generally refers to living things and people, while inanimate refers to non-living objects. However, there are many exceptions. For example, in many dialects, the word for rock is animate. Some speakers of the language attribute spiritual significance to this, and some don’t. In this course, we won’t get too much into the philosophy, but we will teach this simply as a property of the language. It is similar to how in Spanish “table” is feminine but “book” is masculine. As you learn Ojibwe nouns, you will have to memorize whether they are animate or inanimate. As you’ll see, this distinction also affects what verbs you can use with different nouns. We’ll talk much more about this in time.

PRONOUNS:

These pronouns are fairly equivalent to their English translations, but they actually aren’t used that much in Ojibwe in ordinary conversation. This is because verbs take prefixes to indicate 1st 2nd and 3rd person, so you don’t need to add a pronoun on top of that. Here are the verb forms with prefixes:

bare pronounverb prefixfull verbtranslation
niinnim-nimbakadeI am hungry.
giingi-gibakadeYou are hungry.
wiin—–bakadeS/he is hungry.

VERBS EXAMPLES:

Here are two more examples. The dictionary forms for these verbs are maajaa and nibaa. Note that these are also the third-person singular forms (this only applies to VAI verbs – the other verb classes have their own dictionary forms, again the most minimal forms with no prefixes or suffixes).

bare pronounfull verbtranslation
niinnimaajaaI leave
giingimaajaayou leave
wiinmaajaas/he leaves
niinninibaaI sleep
giinginibaayou sleep
wiinnibaas/he sleeps
niinningiishkaabaagweI am thirsty
giingigiishkaabaagweyou are thirsty
wiingiishkaabaagwes/he is thirsty

PREVERBS:

Finally, the preverbs in this lesson. A preverb is a kind of prefix that comes before the main verb, modifying its meaning. Here we use wii-, which is a kind of future tense marker. OPD labels it as pv tns, a preverb of tense. You use this when indicating that someone will probably do something, that they want to do something or are volunteering to do it, like when you say “I’ll get it” when the house phone rings. It is less definite than the other future tense marker ga, which indicates more certainty that something will happen – as in giga-waabamin. The hyphen at the end of wii- reminds you that it comes before the verb, and it is common to use that hyphen in writing but not always. The preverb comes before the main verb, but after the prefix indicating person. So we have:

Grammatical rule: For VAI verbs ending in -o or -i, that final short vowel is deleted for the first-person niin and second-person singular giin forms, but it remains for third person wiin. We will illustrate this for two VAI verbs whose citation forms are the third person singular: wiisini and giigido. The first-person prefix for verbs starting in g is nin-. So we have:

PARTICLES:

Particles are little words that fulfill specific grammatical functions. Again, the OPD distinguishes many different kinds, and we will tell you the part of speech as listed in the OPD, but we will not delve deeply into the meaning of those categories. For now, we will discuss na and enya’, both of which are classified as pc disc, or discourse particles.

Na is an important word that marks yes/no questions. To turn a statement into a question, you simply add na as the second word of the sentence. It may also be ina, if following a hard pronounced consonant. So we have:

Gibakade.You are hungry.
Gibakade na?Are you hungry?
Niwii-wiisin omaa.I want to eat here.
Giwii-wiisin na omaa?Do you want to eat here?

https://ciel.utsc.utoronto.ca/ojibwe-textbook

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Improving Grammar Skills – WikiHow

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Improving Your Grammar Skills

English language teacher Kiera Ayres suggests focusing on the grammar you see and hear used in everyday communication with native English speakers, like when watching the news or reading a book. Some other great tips include:

Learn the parts of speech and how they function in sentences. Understand the three points of view: first-person, second-person, and third-person.

Learn the proper structure of a sentence: subject-verb-object.

Conjugate verbs and punctuate sentences properly.

Read books to understand basic words, spelling, and sentence structure .

Play grammar games online to test your skills and learn from your mistakes. Practice writing every day and focus on improving any problem areas.

    Learning the Basics of Grammar

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    1. Step 1 Know the parts of speech.1Know the parts of speech. These are the types of words that make up the language, and they are nouns, adjectives, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, interjections, and sometimes articles.[1] To put sentences together properly, you must understand what the parts of speech are and how they function in sentences.
    2. Nouns are the elements that usually perform the action in a sentence, such as a person, place, thing, idea, emotion, animal, or event. Nouns include Sally, Paris, sand , philosophy , happiness, dog, and birthday.
      • Adjectives modify nouns and describe aspects or characteristics of nouns. Adjectives include red, funny, lazy, large, and short.
      • Pronouns take the place of nouns. There are personal subject pronouns (such as I, she, and they), personal object pronouns (such as us, you, it, and them), personal possessive pronouns (such as mine, yours, his, hers, and theirs), and relative pronouns (such as who, which, that, and whose).
      • Verbs indicate actions or states of being and tell what the noun is doing. Verbs include run, sing, type, be, and walk.
      • Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, conjunctions, prepositions, and other adverbs. They are words like quickly, well, and slowly. These words often end in –ly.
      • Prepositions indicate relationships in time, space, or direction. Prepositions include to, in, on, over, of, and across.
      • Conjunctions join nouns, clauses, phrases, and sentences. Coordinating conjunctions link independent clauses, and they are for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so (remember FANBOYS). Subordinating conjunctions link dependent clauses, and they include because, if, since, while, and although.
      • Interjections are words that indicate emotions. These include oh, hey, ouch, and wow. They are often followed by exclamation points.
      • Articles are used to modify and define nouns. The is a definite article, and a and an are the indefinite articles.
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