A Study of Métis Ethnicity in the Red River Settlement
Author: K. David McLeod
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Published: 1985
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Author: K. David McLeod
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Published: 1985
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 350
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Burley
Publisher: Vermillion : University of South Dakota Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 276
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joe Sawchuk
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 126
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses the Manitoba Metis as an ethnic group, with emphasis on the activities of the Manitoba Metis Federation.
Author: David K. McLeod
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 30
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Douglas N. Sprague
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 302
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKContains 100 page introduction outlining the development of the Red River Metis and their dispersal in what is now Saskatchewan, Alberta and the NWT. Also contains 300 pages of tabular material related to marriage units, employment records, personal and real property in 1835 and 1870, as well as geographical location of Red River residences of whatever ancestry.
Author: Jacqueline Peterson
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780873514088
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of essays on the Metis Native americans by various authors.
Author: Nicole St-Onge
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2014-12-18
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 0806146346
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat does it mean to be Metis? How do the Metis understand their world, and how do family, community, and location shape their consciousness? Such questions inform this collection of essays on the northwestern North American people of mixed European and Native ancestry who emerged in the seventeenth century as a distinct culture. Volume editors Nicole St-Onge, Carolyn Podruchny, and Brenda Macdougall go beyond the concern with race and ethnicity that takes center stage in most discussions of Metis culture to offer new ways of thinking about Metis identity. Geography, mobility, and family have always defined Metis culture and society. The Metis world spanned the better part of a continent, and a major theme of Contours of a People is the Metis conception of geography—not only how Metis people used their environments but how they gave meaning to place and developed connections to multiple landscapes. Their geographic familiarity, physical and social mobility, and maintenance of family ties across time and space appear to have evolved in connection with the fur trade and other commercial endeavors. These efforts, and the cultural practices that emerged from them, have contributed to a sense of community and the nationalist sentiment felt by many Metis today. Writing about a wide geographic area, the contributors consider issues ranging from Metis rights under Canadian law and how the Library of Congress categorizes Metis scholarship to the role of women in maintaining economic and social networks. The authors’ emphasis on geography and its power in shaping identity will influence and enlighten Canadian and American scholars across a variety of disciplines.
Author: Ruth Ellen Swan
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 752
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe origins of the Red River Metis lay in the development of the freeman culture of the plains buffalo hunters and traders. These men were voyageurs from Quebec and the Great Lakes who worked for Montreal-based fur trade companies and who married Native women mostly Cree and Ojibwe. Although the ethnogenesis of this freeman culture developed on the margins of the plains and parkland starting in the 1770s, such as along the Saskatchewan and upper Assiniboine Basin, it was not articulated as a separate ethnic identity until 1815-16 in Red River in the confrontation between the HBC, the Selkirk immigrants, the NWC Bourgeois and their young Bois Brules supporters. In this cultural transition, the role of the Pembina fur trade region as a cradle or "crucible" for Metis ethnogenesis has been overlooked because of a'Forks Myopia". Focus on the Pembina Metis helps to challenge some existing misconceptions. The southward movement of Cree speakers to Red River in the 1820s has confounded American scholars who have a hard time explaining why the Turtle Mountain "Chippewa" who are Metis in background speak French Cree. Linguists have studied this Metis language, called Michif, which in its classic form is composed of French nouns and Cree verbs. Ethnic identity was linked to language and culture and the geographic extent of Michif suggests that it was the dominant language of the buffalo hunters' camps and in the Red River Settlement for most of the nineteenth century. Bungee, the English-Cree mixed dialect spoken by the Orkney-Homeguard Cree descendants of the HBC, has died out in the last forty years. Using genealogy, researchers can name the freemen and link up the Canadian voyageurs of the early 1800s with the Bois Brules of the Fur Trade War. These families settled at Pembina and The Forks before the arrival of European immigrants in 1812, thus allowing them to claim importance as "first settlers".
Author: Nicole St-Onge
Publisher: University of Regina Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9780889771734
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the development of Metis identity and pride through the accounts of selected families and their descendants.