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From new peoples to new nations : aspects of Métis history and identity from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries
Xwi7xwa Library, University of British Columbia

2016
Book
Creators
Ens, Gerhard J.; Sawchuk, Joe
Description
"From New Peoples to New Nations is a broad historical account of the emergence of the Métis as distinct peoples in North America over the last three hundred years. Examining the cultural, economic, and political strategies through which communities define their boundaries, Gerhard J. Ens and Joe Sawchuk trace the invention and reinvention of Métis identity from the late eighteenth century to the present day. Their work updates, rethinks, and integrates the many disparate aspects of Métis historiography, providing the first comprehensive narrative of Métis identity in more than fifty years.

Based on extensive archival materials, interviews, oral histories, ethnographic research, and first-hand working knowledge of Métis political organizations, From New Peoples to New Nations addresses the long and complex history of Métis identity from the Battle of Seven Oaks to today's legal and political debates"--publisher's website.

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Holding Library
Xwi7xwa Library, University of British Columbia
ISBN
9781442649781; 144264978X; 9781442627116; 1442627115
Statement of Responsibility
Gerhard J. Ens and Joe Sawchuk.
Publication Information
Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
Physical Description
xii, 687 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 636-664) and index.
Contents
Part I: Hybridity and patterns of ethnogenesis -- 1. Race and nation : changing ethnological and historical constructions of hybridity -- 2. Economic ethnogenesis : the fur trade and Métissage in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- Part II: The genesis and development of the idea of the Métis Nation to the 1930s -- 3. Fur trade wars, the Battle of Seven Oaks, and the idea of the Métis nation, 1811-1849 -- 4. Louis Riel and the religion of Métis nationalism, 1869-1885 -- 5. L'Union nationale métisse Saint-Joseph, A.-H. Trémaudan, and the re-imagining of the Métis nation, 1910 to the 1930s -- Part III: Government policy and the invention of Métis status in the nineteenth century -- 6. The Manitoba Act and the creation of Métis status -- 7. Extinguishing rights and inventing categories : Métis scrip as policy and self-ascription -- 8. Indian treaty versus Métis scrip : the permeability of status categories and ethnicities -- 9. The United States/Canada border and the bifurcation of the plains Métis 1870-1900 -- Part IV: Economic marginalization and the Métis political response, 1896 to the 1960s -- 10. St. Paul des Métis colony, 1896-1909 : identity as pathology -- 11. Political mobilization in Alberta and the Métis Population Betterment Act of 1938 -- 12. The Liberals, the CCF, and the Métis of Saskatchewan, 1935-1964 -- 13. Social science and the Métis, 1950-1970 -- Part V: Politics, the courts, and the Constitution: Reformulating Métis identities since the 1960s -- 14. A renewed political awareness, 1965-2000 -- 15. Reformulated identities, 1965-2013 -- 16. The Métis of Ontario -- 17. Organizational politics, land claims, and the Métis of the Northwest Territories -- 18. Ethnic symbolism : reinterpreting and recreating the past -- Conclusion.
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Also available online (authentication may be required)
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