Full Description
This book contains a collection of articles concerning the Western Metis, published in Prairie Forum between 1978 and 2007. These articles have been chosen for the breadth and scope of the investigations upon which they are based, and for the reflections they will arouse in anyone interested in Western Canadian history and politics.
Contents
Genesis The Metis: The People and the Term Indigenous Knowledge, Literacy and Research on Metissage and Metis Origins on the Saskatchewan River: The Case of the Jerome Family Ruth Swan and Edward A. Jerome The Northern Great Plains: Pantry of the Northwestern Fur Trade, 1774-1885 Arthur J. Ray The Twatt Family, 1780-1840: Amerindian, Ethnic Category, or Ethnic Group Identity? Paul C. Thistle Wintering, the Outsider Adult Male and the Ethnogenesis of the Western Plains Metis John E. Foster The Market for Metis Lands in Manitoba: An Exploratory Study Thomas Flanagan Dispossession vs. Accommodation in Plaintiff vs. Defendant Accounts of Metis Dispersal from Manitoba, 1870-1881 D.N. Sprague Metis Land Claims at St. Laurent: Old Arguments and New Evidence Thomas Flanagan Thomas Scott and the Daughter of Time J.M. Bumsted The Charismatic Pattern: Canada's Riel Rebellion of 1885 as a Millenarian Protest Movement Manfred Mossman Louis Riel and Sitting Bull's Sioux: Three Lost Letters David G. McGrady The Battle of Batoche Walter Hildebrandt Another Father of Confederation? Allen Ronaghan Notes & References Index
