History
1976 Métis Cultural Conference initiated planning for a Métis Educational Institute.
1980 The Gabriel Dumont Institute is formed and SUNTEP began operations. The Institute hosts first Annual Cultural Conference.
1983 Initiation of federally sponsored preparatory, credit skills training, and university programs.
1985 The Napoleon LaFontaine Scholarship Foundation is established.
1989 The Institute begins publication of the Journal of Indigenous Studies.
Saskatchewan Justice and the Institute establish the first residential Community Training Residence (CTR) for female offenders in Saskatchewan.
1991 Dumont Technical Institute was established as a federated institute of the Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology.
1992 Master Agreement between the Institute and Saskatchewan Education providing for the operation of DTI. DTI delivers technical and Adult Basic Education (ABE) programming within all provincial community colleges and SIAST institutions.
1993 The Institute signs an Affiliation Agreement with the University of Saskatchewan creating the GDC.
1995 A two-year Métis Teacher Associate Certificate Program was developed by the Institute and the University of Saskatchewan.
1996 GDC began offering Arts and Science classes.
2001 DTI purchases a central administration building in Saskatoon.
2002 GDI receives a Saskatchewan Book Award for Ken Carriere's The Bulrush Helps the Pond and Métis Legacy.
2003 GDI receives two Saskatchewan Book Awards for Cheryl Troupe's Expressing Our Heritage: Métis Artistic Designs.
2003 GDI moves into new centres in Saskatoon and Regina.
2003 GDI launches The Virtual Museum of Métis History and Culture
2004 GDI Publishing moves into a new centre in Saskatoon.
2005 GDI celebrates 25 years of excellence and achievement.